Category: Green Building LEED News
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Canadian Solar Sells Little Creek Solar Farm to BluEarth
Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world’s largest solar power companies, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has completed the sale of Little Creek, a 8.5-MWac solar power plant valued at more than C$53.0 million to a BluEarth Renewables Inc. subsidiary. This is the first ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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ExoSun Trackers Selected for 30-MW Solar Project in California
Exosun Inc., a leading provider of solar tracking technologies and associated engineering services, today announced its Exotrack HZ product will maximize power generation for 30 MWac of solar electric systems in California for Spanish sustainable technology solutions provider, Abengoa, and multinational renewable energy developer, EDP Renewables. This deal represents Exosun’s firstRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How 76 State Representatives Crushed an ALEC-Funded Attack on Renewables
Good news from America’s heartland: A bipartisan coalition in the Kansas House stood with Kansans this week in support of clean and renewable energy, turning back yet another attempt to repeal the state Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) aimed at fostering homegrown resources like wind and solar power. Specifically, 76 members of the Kansas House of Representatives defeated a…
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What the Dairy Industry is not Telling You
Why are so many people convinced that dairy is the best source of calcium? A strategic marketing campaign from the dairy industry would have us believe that by drinking milk, we will be protected from bone crippling osteoporosis, but the opposite may be true. [caption id="attachment_328258" align="alignnone" width="500"] Drinking milk leaches calcium from our bones and…
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Study Shows Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Offer ‘Little to No Benefit’
Center for Food Safety released a scientific literature review which reveals that neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments offer little benefit, do not increase crop yields and cause widespread environmental and economic damage. In particular, neonicotinoids have been implicated in bee population declines and colony collapse. While some fear that crop yields will suffer without the use…