Category: Green Building LEED News
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Friday Roundup: Battling big chemical in Ohio, Dynamic Plaque pushes performance
Feature image: Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips: Resolution that would halt LEED standards in public construction gets first hearing, Columbus Business Firs…
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State Department Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline
The State Department today released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project. The controversial project would carry as much as 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day from Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The State Department’s Final Supplemental EIS concluded that the pipeline wouldn’t…
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LEED: Value of a Market Signal
Feature image: The final day of Greenbuild 2013 closed with a talk from Nate Silver, an American statistician and #1 best selling author of “The Signal and the N…
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1.5-MW Solar Project to Supply Power to New Mexico City
Sparq Inc., Nautilus Solar Energy and The City of Lordsburg, N.M., announced today an agreement to supply solar energy to Lordsburg. The 1.5-MW solar energy project will comprise of rooftop and ground-mount solar installations for behind-the-meter applications at the city’s […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Why Investing in Dirty Fuels is a Bad Idea
A mind-boggling sum of about $800 for each person on the planet is invested into fossil fuel companies through the global capital markets alone. That’s roughly 10 percent of the total capital invested in listed companies. The amount of money invested into the 200 biggest fossil fuel companies through financial markets is estimated at 5.5 trillion dollars.…