Category: Green Building LEED News
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Part 3: Challenges and opportunities (2010-present)
Feature image: To celebrate the release of our list of the Top 10 States For LEED, we’re posting our narrative of the history of LEED’s development, originally released a…
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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: ‘I Was Wrong,’ Don’t Build Keystone XL Pipeline
By Mark Heffinger After coming to Nebraska to meet with farmers and ranchers facing eminent domain seizure of their land for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, and listening to the voices of Native Americans, environmental experts and pipeline fighters across the country, MSNBC host Ed Schultz of The Ed Show announced on his March 5 show…
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10 States That Led Solar Energy to a Monumental Year
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) this week illuminated just how far renewable energy has come in the U.S. Photovoltaic installations in the U.S. last year were about 15 times greater than they were in 2008, according to SEIA’s Solar Market Insight Report 2013 Year in Review. “Today, solar is the fastest-growing source of renewable energy in America, generating…
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Report Exposes How the TTIP Could Expand Fracking in U.S. and Europe
As the U.S. and European Union (EU) governments continue negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), environmental organizations are growing more concerned about a loophole that could leave the door open for expanded fracking in both regions. According to a report released today from Friends of the Earth Europe, the Sierra Club, Corporate Europe Observatory and others,…
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Interactive Tool Makes Global CO2 Emissions Data Smartphone Accessible
By Johannes Friedrich “Big data” has never been bigger. New tools—such as satellites, cloud computing and other technological upgrades—are fueling a “data revolution,” allowing researchers to analyze the world in ways they’ve never been able to before. [caption id="attachment_324595" align="alignnone" width="500"] Graphic courtesy of Mom’s Clean Air Force[/caption] But while compiling and analyzing this data…