Category: Green Building LEED News
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Peer Comparisons Work, People Increase Energy Efficiency
Hawaii residents become much more efficient after receiving reports that compare them with neighbors.
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Sustainable Food and Farming Film Competition: Submissions Due Feb. 3
The Real Food Media Contest is looking for short films with big ideas. They are seeking captivating short films about food, farming and sustainability that spark action and inspire change. “This contest gives an opportunity for filmmakers to generate powerful storytelling about food, farming and sustainability,” says Anna Lappé, director of the Real Food Media…
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Gov. Cuomo, Go Big on Clean Water Investments
With only three days until Gov. Cuomo releases his 2014 budget plan, the Albany Times Union has this advice: Invest in clean water, Governor. Riverkeeper couldn’t agree more. The Governor’s own environmental agency calls our failure to invest adequately in water infrastructure a “gathering storm” and a “crisis.” The Times Union warns that we are looking more and…
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California’s Drought: The New Normal
Gov. Jerry Brown has officially declared a drought in the state of California. Californians are being asked to reduce their personal water usage by 20 percent in 2014, projected to become the driest year on record. [blackoutgallery id=”318413″] Scientific projections regarding climate change suggest that these dry conditions could become the new normal. The drought proclamation…
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How Climate Change is Impacting Thoreau’s Walden Pond
By Tim Radford Walden, where Henry David Thoreau planted beans on land that had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort and sweet wild fruits, is changing. The trees and shrubs around Walden Pond are now out on average 18 days earlier than 150 years ago, when Thoreau made his observations. And, according to U.S. scientists in…