Category: Green Building LEED News
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Summit Seeks to Move Northeast Ohio Forward on Sustainability
Baldwin Wallace University will bring together leading experts focused on vision and leadership in sustainability for a 2014 Sustainability Symposium Jan. 27-28 at Baldwin Wallace’s Center for Innovation and Growth at340 Front St., in Berea, OH. Renowned leaders from the private, public and nonprofit sectors of Northeast Ohio will address the challenge of how to…
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EnterSolar Installs 129-kW Rooftop System at NY Manufacturer
Under Governor Cuomo’s NY-Sun initiative, Signal Transformer, a division of Bel Fuse Inc., completed the installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at their Inwood, N.Y., facility. Signal Transformer is a premier manufacturer of high-efficiency transformers, chokes, and inductors, which are widely […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Big Biotech Sues Little Island Over GMO Law
By Maureen Nandini Mitra As was expected, Big Biotech’s legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai’i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies—Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc. (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical)—filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kaua’i County’s new genetically modified organism (GMO) regulatory law. Two other big agribusiness…
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Kyocera Completes 7.4-MW Install in Connecticut
Connecticut residents who made a New Year’s resolution to reduce their environmental impact may be getting a boost without even realizing it. On December 23, 2013, a 5-MWac (7.4-MWdc) installation of high-reliability Kyocera solar modules began commercial operations at Somers, […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Company Behind Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline Spends $200M on Huge Wind Project
By Emily Atkin [caption id="attachment_317700" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Enbridge Inc.’s most recent claim to fame has no doubt been its proposed $6.5 billion Northern Gateway Pipeline in Canada. This project, if completed, would transport up to 525,000 barrels of tar sands crude 731 miles from Alberta to British Columbia, where it would be shipped…