Category: Green Building LEED News
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Vertical Farming: Feeding Tomorrow’s World With Today’s Emerging Technologies
By applying conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will exceed 10 billion in 2050. In order to grow enough food to sustain future generations using today’s growing practices, 20 percent more land than what is represented by the country of Brazil will be needed, according to Dr. Dickson Despommier’s The Vertical Farm…
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Are You Making These 7 Common Recycling Mistakes?
It took a long, long time, but curbside recycling has finally become commonplace in most U.S. communities. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Americans create 251 million tons of waste every year. We say that we “throw away” much of this waste, but of course, there is no away. Most of it (around 135…
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Report Exposes Products Driving International Killing and Trade of Whales
Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) announced yesterday the release of a new report which highlights the global scale of killing and trade in whales in the twenty-first century. WDC demonstrates that consumption or utilization of whale and dolphin meat and by-products is not confined to just a few nations, as many people believe. Rather, killing and trade is…
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Group Brings Britain’s Zero Carbon Plan to U.S.
Like other groups, Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) is working to find the best ways to address and respond to climate change. The difference in ZCB is that the organization doesn’t want to rely on future promises or technologies to get the job done. ZCB says the job can be done with existing resources, sooner than…
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Supreme Court Rejects Coal Industry Lawsuit, Defends EPA Veto of Mountaintop Removal Mine
Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied the coal mining industry’s request to hear a case against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for vetoing part of a permit for one of the largest and most harmful mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia’s history, the Spruce No. 1 mine. By declining to take the case the…