Category: Green Building LEED News
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Faith Leaders Call on President Obama to Halt Keystone XL South One Week Before Start-Up
Today, citizens marked the eighty-fifth birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. by risking arrest to stop the scheduled Jan. 22 start-up of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma. They are calling on President Obama to exercise his executive powers to permanently shut the pipeline down, starting with ordering the Pipeline Hazardous…
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San Diego YMCA Now Running on Solar Power
Premier Alliance Group Inc., a leading provider of business performance, compliance and energy management solutions, announced that its Energy and Sustainability Division completed a 277-kW solar PV project for the Border View YMCA in San Diego. A ribbon cutting ceremony […] — Solar Builder magazine
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WikiLeaks Exposes Obama Administration’s Weakening of Environmental Policies in TPP
The U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries aren’t on the same page regarding environmental policies within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, and the dissension has been exposed by WikiLeaks. Organizations who have viewed the leaked version of the TPP’s environment chapter say it shows that the U.S. could ease up on pollution control requirements, a shark…
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EU Moves to Ban Hazardous Plastics By 2020
The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted yesterday. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) add. The resolution, a call…
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The Meat Atlas: Facts and Figures About Industrial Food Production
By Vicki Hird They say every cloud has a silver lining, and since the horsemeat scandal in 2013 it has become much easier to talk about meat—more people seem to know and care about the impact of meat production and consumption and the benefits of cutting down. They’re increasingly keen to do their bit and politically speaking…