Category: Green Building LEED News
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Colbert Roasts Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ Campaign as Child Obesity Plummets
Quasi news pundit Stephen Colbert didn’t pull any comedic punches Wednesday when he roasted First Lady Michelle Obama and the recent success of her “Let’s Move!” campaign launched in 2010 to combat America’s childhood obesity problem. Colbert scoffed at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study that determined obesity rates in children 2…
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International Panel Recommends Nutrient Diet to Battle Toxic Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
The International Joint Commission (IJC) released a report yesterday urging the states of Ohio and Michigan to declare the waters of the western Lake Erie basin impaired from nutrient pollution. The report, A Balanced Diet for Lake Erie: Reducing Phosphorus Loadings and Harmful Algal Blooms, and its 16 recommendations to help address the challenge of deteriorating…
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CNBC’s Joe Kernen Compares Climate Change to ‘Witchcraft’
CNBC’s Joe Kernen isn’t interested in your preposterous theories that climate change has anything to do with carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans. You think last month was among the warmest Januaries of all time? Don’t bother him with such talk. Though nearly 100 percent of climate scientists said climate change was caused by human activity…
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Waterkeepers Urge Governor to Declare State of Emergency on Pig Deaths from PED
On Thursday, Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers called on the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, to protect public and environmental health against the swine industry’s handling of the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus outbreak in the state. Warning: The slideshow contains graphic images that may be unsuitable for some viewers. [blackoutgallery id=”323679″] Commissioner Troxler…
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U.S. to Allow Seismic Airgun Testing for Offshore Drilling Exploration, Will Threaten Marine Life
Yesterday, the U.S. government released a final proposal to allow the use of controversial seismic airguns to look for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean floor in an area twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida. According to the Department of the Interior (DOI), these dynamite-like blasts are expected to injure and possibly kill large…