Category: Green Building LEED News
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Deforestation in Sandy Ecosystems Increases Release of CO2
Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists—a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree…
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‘Just Eat It’: Documentary Explores Food Waste From Farm to Fridge
What happens when two filmmakers challenge themselves to survive for six months only on discarded food? You get Just Eat It, a new documentary that explores the food waste issue from the farm all the way to a Vancouver fridge. [caption id="attachment_329377" align="alignnone" width="500"] In Just Eat It, Director and film subject Grant Baldwin found…
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Study Shows Crows Are as Smart as Seven-Year-Olds
Remember that old Aesop’s fable about the crow and the pitcher? The one in which a desperately thirsty crow figured out that if he dropped enough pebbles into the long-necked pitcher, he could raise the water level high enough to allow him to drink? Scientists just proved that crows can really do that. [caption id=”attachment_329369″…
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Pew Report Reveals Which Country is Winning the Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ latest report gives data on clean energy investment and deployment the feel of movie box office rankings or mid-season baseball stats. The organization considers a variety of categories and measurable figures, pitting nations against one another to answer one question—Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? With so many categories, it’s not the…
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Carbon Levels Cross 400ppm, Two Months Earlier
A raft of research points to accelerated changes from crop yields to fish size.