Category: Green Building LEED News
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Polluters Unite to Fight Carbon Regulations, Foundations Unite to Divest
Polluters form a coalition to fight off climate regulations and 17 foundations join the growing divestment movement.
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FrackGate Comes to Illinois? Media Blackout on Fracking Vote
As the national media puts the spotlight on the “FrackGate” public relations scandal in Ohio, where state officials worked to “marginalize opponents of fracking by teaming up with corporations—including Halliburton—business groups and media outlets,” Illinois residents behind a ballot initiative to ban fracking in rural Johnson County are facing a similar campaign of misinformation and…
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Eaton Releases New Energy Storage Grid-Tied Inverters
Power management company Eaton today announced the release of its new 2- and 2.25-MW Power Xpert energy storage grid-tied inverters. Designed to increase electrical resiliency in utility-scale applications, the inverter works with a wide variety of battery chemistries to store […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Could Vapors From Coniferous Trees Help Slow Global Warming?
By Hannah Hickey Pine forests are especially magical places for atmospheric chemists. Coniferous trees give off pine-scented vapors that form particles, very quickly and seemingly out of nowhere. [caption id="attachment_323433" align="alignnone" width="500"] Forests are thought to emit many more of these scented compounds as temperatures rise, potentially slowing effects of global warming. Photo courtesy of…
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How a Solar Incubator Aims to Make Oakland the Industry’s ‘Epicenter’
Danny Kennedy couldn’t stop after seeing his own company, Sungevity, add more than 200 employees since 2009. He has since created SfunCube, an incubator and accelerator that he believes could make Oakland, CA “the world’s epicenter for solar entrepreneurship.” In a New York Times feature, the incubator’s founders, inhabitants and even a California energy commissioner…