Category: Green Building LEED News
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Net-Zero Energy Buildings Double, Forest Service Awarded for Its First
The number of net-zero energy buildings doubled last year, but more importantly it’s being used a great variety of building types and increasingly by private developers.
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Trojan Battery Launches Smart Carbon Line of Batteries
To address the impact of Partial State of Charge (PSOC) on cycling batteries in renewable energy (RE), inverter backup and telecom applications, Trojan Battery Co. today announced the addition of Smart Carbon as a standard feature to its Industrial and […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Groups Seek to Stop Illegal Swine Waste Pollution in North Carolina
The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation and Waterkeeper Alliance issued a Notice of Intent to sue the current and former owners and operators of the Stilley swine feeding operation this week to stop illegal discharges of swine waste into groundwater, wetlands and streams that flow to the Trent River. [blackoutgallery id=”318072″] The Stilley Facility, which confines more…
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Palm Oil Company Ordered to Pay $30 Million for Illegal Rainforest Destruction
By Alicia Graef An Indonesian court issued a big blow to a palm oil company for illegally destroying forest land in Sumatra’s protected Leuser Ecosystem, which provides critical habitat for orangutans and other endangered species. In what’s being called a groundbreaking verdict, the court found palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large areas of the Tripa peat…
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Showtime Breaks Ground With First-Ever Climate Change Series
By Joe Romm This April, Showtime will start airing its groundbreaking TV series on the experiences and personal stories of people whose lives have been touched by climate change. Years Of Living Dangerously is an eight-part series produced by the legendary storytellers and film-makers James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Weintraub—together with three former 60 Minutes producers…