Category: Green Building LEED News
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Colorado Supreme Court Overturns ‘Big Food’ Challenge, Keeps GMO Labeling Bill Alive
The Colorado Supreme Court overturned a major challenge by mainstream biotech, pesticide and grocery interests last week, allowing for the possibility of a genetically modified organisms (GMO) labeling bill to appear on the state’s November 2014 ballot. [caption id="attachment_326785" align="alignnone" width="500"] Protests, like this one held last May in Asheville, NC, represent the vast number of Americans who…
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How Global Warming Worsens Allergies
By Minda Berbeco Have your eyes been running more in the spring? Are you sneezing more in the fall? After this frigid and snowy winter, it may be hard to remember what the allergy season feels like. But if you‘re one of the more than 80 million Americans who suffer from seasonal allergies, you might…
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Plants of the Colorado Rockies Show Impact of Climate Change
For almost 40 years, field scientists strapped on cross-country skis, shouldered backpacks with supplies and set out over three miles of snow and rocks to a field station near a meadow high in the Rocky Mountains as soon as the snow began melting. Every other day, they counted each flower they found, identified the plant…
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New Front Group Takes Aim at Green Building, Clean Energy, Environmental Groups
Multi-millionaire publicist Rick Berman has found new targets, which he’s attacking through the group, Environmental Policy Alliance.
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Geoengineering is Not the Answer to Climate Change
Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer program as it does in the real world, scientists and engineers have come up with ideas that didn’t turn out as expected. DDT was considered a panacea for a range of insect pest issues, from controlling disease to helping farmers. But…