Category: Green Building LEED News
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Company Lets You Solarize Battery-Powered Devices With This Kit
We’ve seen solar picnic tables, solar lights and even rumblings that Apple might solarize its devices, but how about incorporating renewable energy into one of our favorite handheld gadgets? Even if you can manage to live without a remote, there’s a good chance that one of your family members or friends can’t. New Jersey-based Sparkle…
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‘Big Food’ Ready for Costly Battle as States Consider GMO Labeling Bills
In 2014, half the states will likely consider placing special labels on food that use genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to Pamela M. Prah at PEW’s Stateline. [caption id="attachment_326151" align="alignnone" width="500"] Even though 64 countries have mandated the labeling of GMO foods, the U.S. has been slow to adopt such regulation. Connecticut and Maine have passed labeling…
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Victory for Marine Life as Deadly Driftnet Proposal Is Voted Down
The Pacific Fishery Management Council—the 14 member voting body tasked with managing fisheries three to 200 miles off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington—decided yesterday to cease consideration of a proposal to expand the use of deadly drift gillnets off California and instead requested extension of emergency regulations that went into effect last year…
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First Pan-African Renewable Energy Fund Receives $100 Million to Power Sub-Saharan Region
The African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) this week reached the halfway point to its goal of $200 million in capital funding to support renewable energy projects in the sub-Saharan region of the continent. In conjunction with its launch, AREF announced that it has closed its first round of capital fundraising, receiving $100 million to support…
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$27 Million Fine for 6000 Mining Violations, C’mon!
It’s the biggest fine ever under the Clean Water Act, but a slap on the wrist for coal companies.