Category: Green Building LEED News
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Celebrating 100 Years of Norman Borlaug: The Father of the Green Revolution
By all accounts, Norman Borlaug, deemed the “Father of the Green Revolution,” was a hardworking and humble man, reports CSA News. When the phone call came to tell him that he had won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, he was working in his wheat fields, and his wife, Margaret, had to deliver the news to him.…
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ABM Installing 2-MW Solar Array at Cornell University
ABM , a leading provider of facility solutions, announced today that ABM’s energy business started construction on a 2-MW solar array to be implemented on Cornell University’s campus in Ithaca, N.Y., representing the Ivy League university’s first large solar endeavor. ABM will provide Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) services.Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Global Warming Speeds Up Methane Emissions From Freshwater
British scientists have identified yet another twist to the threat of global warming. Any further rises in temperature are likely to accelerate the release of methane from rivers, lakes, deltas, bogs, swamps, marshlands and rice paddy fields. [caption id="attachment_327188" align="alignnone" width="500"] Most of the methane in freshwater systems is produced by an important group of microbes called…
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World’s First Battery-Powered Bus Transports 135,000 Passengers in 10 Days
Electric buses have been rolled out at trade shows in recent years, but a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil began picking up riders earlier this month in what officials say is the world’s first battery-powered public transit bus. In its first 10 days, more than 135,000 passengers used the bus in the suburb of Diadema, Fox News…
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Protestors Arrested Halting Fracking Operations in Pennsylvania State Forest
In the pre-dawn hours, activists with Marcellus Shale EarthFirst!, Pennsylvania residents and students took action to halt Anadarko’s fracking operation in the Tiadaghton State Forest. Protestors blocked the only access road to a wellpad by locking themselves to barrels of concrete, preventing workers from entering the site. At this time the police have placed at least…