Category: Green Building LEED News
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Study Finds Organic Milk More Nutritious Than Conventional Milk
Organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart-healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms, a study led by a Washington State University (WSU) researcher has found. [caption id="attachment_314767" align="alignnone" width="500"] Organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart-healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms.[/caption]…
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Who Controls Your Food? Take This Quiz and Find Out
Big Food giants like Nestlé, Kraft, PepsiCo and others have been buying up more and more of their competitors, big and small. The result is that some of the biggest companies have products on nearly every aisle of the supermarket and dominate the market in many categories. For example, Kraft not only sells more macaroni and…
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Whales Desert Historic Feeding Grounds—Is Climate Change to Blame?
By Kieran Cooke A mystery is unfolding in the waters of the North Atlantic. Every summer and autumn, numbers of North Atlantic right whales gather in the waters between the eastern Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to feed on massive amounts of zooplankton. But this year the right whales—one of the rarest…
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Innovative Company Transforms Recycled Jeans Into Coasters, Wallets and Rings
While most people throw away old magazines and denim jeans or recycle them, a small company uses the materials to make cool items you likely wouldn’t have imagined possible. Junk mail, newsprint and old money are among the items Lincoln, NE-based Iris Industries uses to make composites that eventually produce architectural finishes, tile, consumer products, furniture and…
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Ross Solar Group Completes NYC’s Largest Rooftop Solar Project
The Ross Solar Group, a SunPower Elite Dealer, has completed New York City’s largest rooftop solar installation for Jetro Cash and Carry at the company’s Hunts Point Restaurant Depot facility in the Bronx, N.Y. The 1.56-MW system is also the […] — Solar Builder magazine