Category: Green Building LEED News
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How Wind Met All of Denmark’s Electricity Needs for 90 Hours
By Bentham Paulos Renewable electricity records are being broken every day. In early October, Germany hit a 59 percent renewable peak, Colorado utility Xcel Energy peaked at 60 percent wind at the beginning of the year and Spain got its top power supply from wind for three months leading into 2013. But that’s chump change compared with Denmark. According to data from Energinet,…
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JMC Homes in California Neighborhood Now Come With Solar
JMC Homes recently opened The Executive Series at Lakeside in Lincoln, CA, offering all new homes with solar as standard, in a partnership with PetersenDean Roofing & Solar and Canadian Solar. The master-planned community recently held a grand re-opening releasing […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Best in class: King County, WA leads by platinum example
Feature image: For green building policy geeks like us, King County, Washington, is as cool as it gets. And, my dear geeky friends, they’re at it again.read more
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Are Food Expiration Date Labels Making You a Wasteful Person?
By Dana Frasz Words such as convoluted, confusing, inconsistent, ineffective, disorienting, ambiguous and dizzying are not terms you want to hear associated with a system you believe is designed to guarantee food safety. Yet those are the adjectives that a recent report uses to describe the current date labeling regime in the U.S. Published by the Natural…
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LEED v4 material ingredients market opportunities
Category: Research Published on: 13 Dec 2013 Feature image: …