Category: Green Building LEED News
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4 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, EPA Lifts BP’s Gulf Drilling Ban
Nearly four years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster in the Gulf of Mexico—an event that blew away the record books for the nation’s worst accidental oil spill—BP is fully back in business, and drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico. [caption id="attachment_326438" align="alignnone" width="585"] NASA satellite imgae on May 20, 2010.…
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Bill Gates-Funded Solar Toilet Converts Feces Into Soil Stabilizer
This isn’t the first time you’ve heard a college professor say his team of researchers is working on something that has never been done before, but it’s likely the first time such a statement has been associated with a technology that takes advantage of both solar energy and feces. Karl Linden, a professor of environmental…
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Around the world in 80 market briefs
Feature image: Green Building Leadership across the World’s Megacities To accommodate the expected increase in urban population of 2 billion people before 2030, will require th…
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Largest Anti-Fracking Rally in California History Draws Thousands
By Andy Rowell They came in their thousands from across the Golden State. On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking rally and protest in California’s history took place in the state capital of Sacramento. The message to California Gov. Jerry Brown was simple: act now to ban fracking. [blackoutgallery id=”326371″] The rally, which was organized by Californians…
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How California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
By Sierra Martinez California took another major and symbolic step this month with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made official…