Category: Green Building LEED News
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Ocean Acidification Impairs Sense of Smell in Fish
Acidic ocean water blunts the sense of smell in fish, making them bolder—perhaps recklessly so, according to a new study offering a glimpse of the oceans of the future. The findings suggest that, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, fish could suffer debilitating behavioral effects. [caption id="attachment_330504" align="alignnone" width="500"] Fish in acidic waters are more…
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Advanced Energy Acquires HiTek Power Group
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. today announced it has acquired HiTek Power Group (HiTek), a privately-held provider of high voltage power solutions. Based in the United Kingdom, the company offers a comprehensive portfolio of high voltage and custom built power conversion products ranging from 100-V to 500-kV designed to meet theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Enersol Finishes Design of 33 PV Projects in Hawaii
Enersol LLC announced today the finalization of the last design packages for 33 of the Department of Education’s photovoltaic projects on Oahu and Kauai, Hawaii. This project is comprised of 11 systems for 9 schools on Oahu and 22 systems for 15 schools on Kauai. The systems vary in sizeRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Despite Kidney Disease Link, Sri Lanka Places Monsanto Herbicide Ban on Hold
Given its size and scope, when Monsanto pushes back, it usually gets what it wants. That’s why organizations like Food Democracy Now! want people to divest from the seed giant and it’s also why Sri Lanka is postponing its ban of the active ingredient in the company’s top-selling herbicide, Roundup. Less than a month ago a Sri Lankan minister told reporters…
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ExxonMobil Ignores IPCC Warning, Vows to Burn All Oil Reserves
Yesterday the world’s leading climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published their final report in their recent trilogy of warnings about climate change. The latest authoritative document, produced by 1,250 international scientists and approved by nearly 200 governments, argued that climate change can be avoided if we move fast to decarbonise the…