Category: Green Building LEED News
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President Obama Signs Farm Bill Legalizing Industrial Hemp
Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to revitalize industrial hemp production in the U.S., is excited to report that President Obama has signed the Farm Bill which contains an amendment to legalize hemp production for research purposes. [caption id="attachment_320625" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: Change.org[/caption] Originally introduced by Rep. Polis (D-CO), Rep.…
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groSolar Installs 2.96-MW Project for Vermont Organic Farm
Meach Cove Farms and groSolar have announced the completion of Limerick Road Solar, LLC, a 2.96-MWdc solar photovoltaic (PV) system in Shelburne, Vt. Project design and solar engineering was performed under the direction of L.W. Seddon LLC and the installation […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Carbon Emissions Could Climb 29 Percent by 2035
By Alex Kirby [caption id="attachment_320613" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: futureatlas.com/blog via Flickr Creative Commons[/caption] The good news, from the climate’s standpoint, is that while global demand for energy is continuing to grow, the growth is slowing. The bad news is that one energy giant predicts global carbon dioxide emissions will probably rise by almost a…
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Bill McKibben to President Obama: Say No to Big Oil
In an interview with Moyers & Company, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers that many who believed Barack Obama in 2008 when he called for ending the tyranny of the oil industry are about to find out “whether or not they were right to believe.” McKibben said President Obama is “theoretically a good environmentalist,” but…
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Fish Farms to Produce Two-Thirds of Global Supply by 2030
Aquaculture—or fish farming—will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging global middle class, especially in China, substantially increases. These are among the key findings of Fish to 2030: Prospects for Fisheries and Aquaculture—a collaboration between the World…