Category: Green Building LEED News
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How Green Investing Improves the Environment and Your Pocketbook
If you’re putting your money toward companies that specialize in clean energy or green technologies, you’re clearly doing your part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve our resources and treat the planet with the care it deserves. You’re also clearly trying to make money. And who could fault you for that? Especially if it means…
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Devastating Bat-Killing Disease Spreads From Eastern U.S. to Midwest States
The devastating bat-killing disease that has already killed more than 7 million bats across the Eastern U.S. has spread to Wisconsin and Michigan, state wildlife officials announced this week. During routine surveys of bat hibernating areas late this winter, biologists discovered signs of the malady known as white-nose syndrome that was first documented in upstate New York…
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Even the FDA Doesn’t Know What Chemicals Are in Your Food
We all have secrets, from small ones (the scale isn’t broken, I ate too many cookies!) to bigger ones (yes, we knew for a long time that tobacco kills people). For more than 50 years, many in the food industry have not had to disclose information to consumers and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
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Friday Roundup: Building a greener New Orleans, first Platinum airport terminal
Feature image: Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips: New Orleans’ entrepreneurs see niches, fill them, USA Today. Check out this profile of the BioInnovation Ce…
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Parasitic Flatworm Could Decimate Coral Reefs Worldwide
A coral-eating flatworm with a unique camouflaging strategy could be a major threat to the world’s coral reefs, according to researchers in the U.K. The parasite, called Amakusaplana acroporae, infects a type of staghorn coral known as acropora, a major component of reefs, and can destroy its coral host very quickly. [caption id="attachment_330349" align="alignnone" width="500"] Acropora grandis (Staghorn…