Category: Green Building LEED News
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300,000 West Virginians Told Not to Drink Water After Coal Chemical Spill, 600+ Sick
Do you take sugar in your morning coffee? How about 4-methylcyclohexane methanol? A large spill of a chemicals used to remove impurities from coal occurred Thursday in Charleston, WV, contaminating the Elk River less than a mile upstream of the intake for the state’s largest drinking water treatment plant. As many as 300,000 West Virginia…
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Friday Roundup: Green factories in Asia, NY’s road map for renewables
Feature image: Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green, The New York Times. USGBC platinum member Intel is pursuing environmental measures at its LEED-registered plant in …
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A bit of advice for GBI’s new CEO: How to improve Green Globes’ sorry reputation and lack of market uptake
Published on: 10 Jan 2014 Feature image: We hear that Jerry Yudelson has a brand new job as the latest head of th…
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A bit of advice for GBI’s new CEO: How to improve Green Globes’ sorry reputation and lack of market uptake
Published on: 10 Jan 2014 Feature image: We hear that Jerry Yudelson has a brand new job as the latest head of the Green Building Initiative (GBI). Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, it has 35 organizational members (of which m…
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Japanese Officials to Recreate Fukushima Meltdown for Analysis
It’s been almost three years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, but the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is still trying to figure out what went wrong. The agency’s latest effort will be to recreate the meltdown in a controlled setting in order to analyze the event and better prepare for future incidents. According to The Yomiuri Shimbun,…