Category: Green Building LEED News
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3 Ways Cities Can Achieve Sustainability
In recent months, popular protests have broken out in cities around the globe. The causes were different: soaring pollution in Beijing; violent, gender-based crime in New Delhi; and access to public services in São Paulo. But, for each, inequality was a significant underlying factor. Many cities face increasing pressure. The urban population has increased five-fold since 1950.…
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Illinois Votes to Keep Big Coal in Schools
While coal mining families in West Virginia and across the country mourned the fourth anniversary of the tragic Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster last week, hailed by U.S. Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II as “a conspiracy to violate mine safety and health laws,” the Illinois state legislature rolled out the red carpet for Big Coal and voted to…
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How to Teach Kids About Sustainability
So you want to be a good role model and teach kids—whether your own, nieces and nephews or a classroom—how to respect nature, be mindful of the waste they create and more. In short, to teach them about sustainability. And have fun doing it. Where do you start? [caption id="attachment_330159" align="alignnone" width="500"]Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption]…
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Schwarzenegger’s Financial Ties to Palm Oil and Deforestation Reveal Hypocrisy of Role in ‘Years of Living Dangerously’
On the eve of the premiere of James Cameron’s Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime documentary on the human impacts of climate change and forest loss, investigations by Global Witness and Friends of the Earth reveal that executive producer and co-star of the show—Arnold Schwarzenegger—has significant financial links to companies causing tropical deforestation and climate…
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Case Studies Show How Shale Boom Hurt Health and Infrastructure of Four Communities
It’s been nearly a decade since the first shale fracking wells were drilled in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Since that time, there’s been pressure for more gas production in those states, as well as in Ohio, but a series of new studies show that the people who live near the booming industry aren’t always the…