Category: Green Building LEED News
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First-Ever World Wildlife Day Focuses Attention on Illegal Poaching and Trafficking
The United Nations’ inaugural World Wildlife Day kicks off today with events around the world, as global attention turns to a $19 billion USD illicit trade—the fourth largest in the world—that includes elephant poaching, great ape theft and the illegal transport of timber. The third of March was also the day of adoption of the…
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400 Students Arrested in Keystone Protest, Prescott Divests
Over a thousand students showed up to protest the Keystone pipeline this weekend; Prescott is the lastest college to divest from fossil fuels.
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Survey Shows Organic Farmers Pay the Price for GMO Contamination
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will finalize its comment period this week on the feasibility of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and non-GMO crops to coexist. Today, to highlight prevalent problems that already exist, Food & Water Watch in partnership with the Organic Farmers’ Agency for Relationship Marketing (OFARM) released survey results showing contamination from GMO crops…
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Apple CEO to Climate-Denying Shareholders: ‘Get Out of Stock’
The world’s largest tech company has no use for shareholders who lack concern for the world around us. Apple CEO Tim said as much Friday in a blunt advisory to investors who question the company’s decisions to invest in renewable energy and establish environmentally conscious mandates. “Get out of stock,” he said Friday in response…
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Documentary Spotlight: A Will for the Woods
One of my favorite events of the year is almost here—the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) from March 19 to March 30 at Tower City Cinemas. There are eight eco-films this year, in CIFF’s It’s Easy Being Green sidebar sponsored by Great Lakes Brewing Company, bringing awareness and support to the environmental movement working to save our planet. I’ll feature one…