Category: Green Building LEED News
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Fukushima Nightmare Continues as Homeless People are Recruited for Cleanup, Scammed Out of Wages
Police and media in Japan have discovered that homeless people near Fukushima have been recruited to help clean up the three-year-old nuclear devastation for minimum wages, but haven’t seen most of their money. Most have wound up in debt. According to Reuters, recruiters like Seiji Sasa have been trolling Sendai Station another locations for homeless people to…
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Amazon Deforestation Threatens South America’s Water Security
By Paul Brown The continued destruction of the Amazon to exploit its resources for mining, agriculture and hydro-power is threatening the future of the South American continent, according to a report by campaigning groups using the latest scientific data. [caption id="attachment_316692" align="alignnone" width="500"] Deforestation of the Amazon, as shown here in Brazil, endangers the future…
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10 Best Documentaries of 2013
I love documentaries as they have an incredible ability to educate and motivate people to care about the world around them. We need more people to be part of the solution by tackling the most critical issues facing the planet. Check out my list of favorite documentaries of 2013. Share your favorites documentaries in the…
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A Year in the Life of Greenpeace
With your help, Greenpeace has not only reached around the globe to push policy and take direct action, but we have engaged the imagination of a world which is not happy with business as usual and demands a sustainable future. Below is a gallery of a mere few of those moments in the last year:…
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Los Angeles to Build Controversial Solar Plant Adjacent to Former World War II Internment Camp Site
Despite criticism from historians, environmentalists and the general public, the City of Los Angeles is moving forward with a $680 million, 200-megawatt solar energy plant to be constructed on the site of a former Japanese American internment camp during World War II. The Southern Owens Valley Solar Project, headed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power…