Category: Green Building LEED News
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World Health Day: Small Bites and Big Threats
Today is World Health Day, which is celebrated on April 7 of each year to mark the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 and to encourage individuals to engage in activities that can lead to better health. The topic for World Health Day 2014 is vector-borne disease. What are vectors and vector-borne…
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Out-of-State Money Pours Into Local Fight Against GE Crop Ban
A recent report by The Oregonian found that enormous amounts of money are being spent by agrichemical and biotechnology companies in one Oregon county to stop an ordinance that would ban farmers from being able to plant genetically engineered (GE) Crops. This current legislative fight encapsulates the uphill funding battle that anti-GE activists face when organizing state and local…
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Which State Best Supports Its Locally Grown Foods?
The push for more people to buy and eat locally produced foods keeps growing, but which states are actually practicing what they preach? For the third consecutive year, Strolling of the Heifers answers that question with its 2014 Locavore Index. The rankings take the per-capita number of farmers markets, consumer-supported agriculture operations (CSAs) and food hubs into account, along…
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OnForce Solar Completes 402-kW Rooftop Installation in New York
OnForce Solar, a leading provider of solar electric systems, has announced that they have completed a 40-2kW rooftop solar installation for Price Master Corporation at its corporate office and warehouse distribution center located in Queens, N.Y. The 402-kW system integrates Con Edison’s SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Scientists Discover New Atmospheric Hole Reinforcing Ozone Depletion
Researchers have discovered a large opening in the Earth’s atmosphere that is enabling pollutants to rise into the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer. [caption id="attachment_329642" align="alignnone" width="500"] Location and extent of low ozone concentrations and thus of the OH hole over the West Pacific. Graphic courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute[/caption] The hole, which is in a…