Category: Green Building LEED News
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UK Wind Industry Says ‘Game On’ for Competing With Fossil Fuels
[caption id="attachment_314940" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Wind farm developer Dong Energy has said it’s “game on” for offshore wind in the UK, expecting it to be able to compete with conventional fossil fuels by the end of the decade. The positive message from one of the country’s leading wind farm developers comes after…
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Press Play: Green Apple Bike Tour
Feature image: USGBC recently hosted our first Green Apple Bike Tour, an eight-day biking adventure from DC to Philadelphia with students and emerging professionals, led by the Center for Green Schools at USGBC. Green Apple is an initiativ…
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Motech Panels Used at New Maryland Solar Project
Delaware’s Motech Americas LLC, a subsidiary of Motech Industries Inc., today announced that 1,430 of its U.S.-manufactured 300-Watt solar panels, being installed at a leading Landover, Md., baking facility, are contributing to the annual elimination of 869,000 lbs of CO2 […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Fracking Bonanza Threatens Texas Suburbs
By Julie Dermansky When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen’s door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down. [caption id="attachment_314914" align="alignnone" width="500"] Phyllis Allen in front of a compressor station near her home. The first major city in…
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Japan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’
Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. But within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes such talk punishable by up to ten years…