Category: Green Building LEED News
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Chipotle Launches Comedy Series ‘Farmed and Dangerous’
Coming on the heels of Chipotle Mexican Grill’s two award-winning animated short films—2013’s Scarecrow and 2011’s Back to the Start—the burrito giant is launching a new original comedy mini-series, Farmed and Dangerous, on Feb. 17. The four-episode season will air on Hulu and Hulu Plus, and satirizes the world of industrial agriculture in America. The show integrates Chipotle’s values and…
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How a Glass Orb Could Change Solar Energy
By Emily Atkin André Broessel’s latest invention looks like something out of a superhero movie. The bifrost device depicted in Thor, perhaps, or Eric Selvig’s wormhole machine in The Avengers. In reality, though, it’s a stand-alone solar energy generator. And if nothing else, it’s much more interesting to look at than your standard photovoltaic solar panel. [caption id="attachment_321467" align="alignnone" width="500"] German architect…
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San Francisco Announces 0-50-100 Plan to Fight Climate Change
San Francisco is closing in on its climate targets and hopes other cities will use it as a model.
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Study Finds Underestimated Methane Emissions Negate Industry Claims of Fracked Gas’ Benefits
By Mark Golden The first thorough comparison of evidence for natural gas system leaks confirms that organizations including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have underestimated U.S. methane emissions generally, as well as those from the natural gas industry specifically. [caption id="attachment_321438" align="alignnone" width="500"] The new study finds that methane emissions from the natural gas…
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Study Finds Underestimated Methane Emissions Negate Industry Claims of Fracked Gas’ Benefits
By Mark Golden The first thorough comparison of evidence for natural gas system leaks confirms that organizations including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have underestimated U.S. methane emissions generally, as well as those from the natural gas industry specifically. [caption id="attachment_321438" align="alignnone" width="500"] The new study finds that methane emissions from the natural gas…