Category: Green Building LEED News
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America Isn’t Buying Its Food at Farmers’s Markets, It’s Doing it at Walmart
By Anna Brones You may think all the talk of eating local and shopping at farmer’s markets is making a shift in the grocery buying arena, but if you do, you may want to take a step back and look at the big picture. While your friends, family and local community may be making a bigger…
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A new economy, a new LEED building
Published on: 21 Feb 2014 Feature image: Slideshow images: …
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A new economy, a new LEED building
Published on: 21 Feb 2014 Feature image: Slideshow images: Editor’s Note: From Burundi to Honduras, South Sudan to Ukraine—LEED certified buildings are quickly propagating in all corners of the gl…
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Huge Solar Farms On California’s Public Lands Could Power 170,000 Homes
By Emily Atkin [caption id="attachment_322746" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: First Solar[/caption] The Obama administration on Wednesday announced that it has given final approval to two sizable solar projects on public lands near the Nevada-California border, which when operational are expected to provide a combined 550 megawatts of renewable energy, or enough to power about 170,000 homes and…
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Fracking Moratorium Bill Introduced in California
Yesterday, Senators Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) and Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 1132 to the California Legislature, which calls for a moratorium on fracking and other types of unconventional well stimulation (like acidizing). Current law (SB4) requires an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) but there are at least two problems with it: Fracking and…