Category: Green Building LEED News
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8 Ways to Spring Into Better Gas Mileage
Finally, spring. Daffodils! Budding trees! Short sleeves! Rising gas prices! Wait, what was that last one? In case you hadn’t noticed, the average price of gas jumped from $3.49 to $3.62 in the last month, and prices are expected to hover around $3.57 a gallon throughout the summer, just one penny below last year’s average.…
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Springtime Garden Soil Prep
We’ve come to believe that the oh-so-common planting directive “as soon as the soil can be worked” is almost meaningless. Workable soil is important to planting but other conditions—including amendment additions, pH conditions and soil temperature—have to be considered as well. Your friendly and eager Planet Natural blogger has often advised patience when it comes…
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IPCC report: Building sector emissions growing, green buildings can be solution
Feature image: Chris Pyke, vice president of research at the U.S. Green Building Council, is a lead author for Chapter 9: Residential and Commercial Buildings in the third installmen…
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New IPCC Report: Fossil Fuel Divestment Must Start Now
For the second time in three weeks, a United Nations panel sent a loud-and-clear message—now is the time to divest from fossil fuels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released another addition to its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Sunday in Berlin, Germany, entitled Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, to detail how the world can keep…
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Ohio Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, State First to Require Companies to Test for Seismic Activity
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced on Friday that recent earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were likely caused by hydraulic fracturing—or fracking. [caption id="attachment_330422" align="alignnone" width="600"] Earthquake epicenters and past seismic events in Ohio. Graphic courtesy of ODNR[/caption] A series of earthquakes up to magnitude 3.0 struck on March 1o-11 in Mahoning County near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. A nearby…