Category: Green Building LEED News
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USGBC’s New Report Demonstrates Impact, Transformative Power of LEED Green Building Rating System
Feature image: LEED in Motion: Impacts and Innovation is the third and final report in the 2013 seriesread more
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Beware: Toxic Chemicals Found in Holiday Garland Beads
Those festive beaded garlands and necklaces that make holidays and Mardi Gras merry have a scary side. New research has found hazardous chemicals in these plastic beaded products. The research, a collaboration between the Ecology Center’s website HealthyStuff.org and VerdiGras, found most beads have at least one hazardous chemical that has been linked to serious health threats. [caption id="attachment_314701" align="alignnone" width="500"]…
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10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production
By Don Lieber There are many reasons to reject fossil fuels now, after 200 years of their reign as society’s primary energy source. History will articulate both the benefits provided to human society derived from fossil fuel energy technologies from 1750 to the present—and the extensive costs. In addition to transportation, electricity, industrial power, military…
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Feds Extend Permits to 30 Years for Wind Farms for Accidental Eagle Kills
[caption id="attachment_314682" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The rift between the wind power industry and wildlife advocates will likely grow as a result of an expanded federal permitting process for wind projects. The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced that some wind energy companies will be granted 30-year permits that allow them to…
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Bloomberg Launches First Tool to Measure Risk of Carbon Assets Still in Ground
By Elizabeth Douglass In a move that underscores Wall Street’s growing unease over the business-as-usual strategy of the world’s fossil fuel companies, Bloomberg L.P. unveiled a tool last week that helps investors quantify for the first time how climate policies and related risks might batter the earnings and stock prices of individual oil, coal and natural gas…