Category: Green Building LEED News
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LEED addenda update: April 2014
Published on: 3 Apr 2014 Feature image: April 1st quarterly addenda to the LEED rating systems and reference guides are now available. There are two ways to view the changes: visit the database and search by 4/…
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How to Use Cold Frames As a Year-Round Gardening Tool
Springtime sees your friendly, think-ahead Planet Natural blogger putting his cold frame to heavy use. Now, in a time of year where frosts are still possible, many of our indoor vegetable starts are almost ready to go into the garden. They need to get use to being outdoors. Many of them can’t survive the night-time cold…
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Rising Tide Seattle Protests Fossil Fuel Exports During Gov. Inslee’s Climate Speech
Rising Tide Seattle created a ruckus at Gov. Inslee’s (D-WA) speech at the University of Washington on Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_329275" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: Rising Tide Seattle Facebook page[/caption] With a dozen protestors outside, holding signs, an extended replica of oil trains and a large image of an explosion, the group brought attention to the…
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Green Car Guide: Understanding the History and Future of Hybrids and EVs
Without fanfare or an exact date, a collective automotive epiphany took place a decade ago. Nearly every major carmaker was in on it, except for Toyota. The Japanese manufacturer had its own environmental awakening 17 years ago when it introduced its first hybrid car. Toyota unveiled its gas-electric engine in Japan in 1997, and then…
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Photographer to Travel Proposed Tar Sands Pipeline Route, Questioning Canada’s Energy Future
Robert van Waarden is a Dutch-Canadian photographer whose trade has taken him far and wide to shoot for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, Canadian Geographic and the British Council. An ambitious new project of van Waarden’s, however, will be keeping him closer to home—and close to the environmental issues that inform much of his…