Category: Green Building LEED News
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Large-Scale Solar Project Funding Grew by $5 Billion in 2013
Funding for large-scale, solar energy projects across the globe grew immensely in 2013. According to a year-end report from Mercom Capital Group, corporations and undisclosed investors financed projects with about $5 billion more in 2013 than the year before. Large-scale project investments were $13.6 billion last year, compared to $8.7 billion in 2012. “While venture funding…
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Why the ‘Polar Vortex’ Does Not Disprove Global Warming
By Emily Atkin On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “Colder than Mars.” Indeed, recent temperatures across the U.S. have been Mars-like. Forecasts…
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7 Chemicals in Cosmetics You Should Avoid
It’s time to shed bad actor ingredients in cosmetics that disrupt the hormone system, cause allergies and
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Australia’s Record-Breaking Heatwave Fuels Climate Change Fight
By Kieran Cooke It’s official—Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says 2013 ranked as the country’s warmest year since records began more than a century ago, with the annual national mean temperature 1.2 degree Celsius above the average. Along the way, several new temperature records were set: the summer was the warmest on record as was Australia’s…
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How One NFL Team Will Turn Food Waste Into Renewable Energy
As if the fact that, in the U.S., we waste 40 percent of our food isn’t shocking enough, a recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that total emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane are almost twice as high in the U.S. as previously thought. More potent than carbon…