Category: Green Building LEED News
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6 Reasons Why Nuke Fan Is Dead Wrong About Wind Energy
By Michael Goggin The Energy Collective blog recently carried a column, Limitations of Unreliable Energy Sources, aka ‘Renewables,’ by Rod Adams, a longtime nuclear power advocate and critic of competing energy sources. In his column, Adams repeats a number of false statements about wind power. When corrected, his claims actually highlight a number of ways…
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Major League Baseball Announces Green Glove Award Winner
By Alice Henly Major League Baseball has announced the San Francisco Giants as the winner of the 2013 Green Glove Award. The Giants had the highest recycling rate in Major League Baseball and diverted the most waste from landfills. They have achieved a season average waste diversion rate of over 86 percent. [caption id="attachment_314572" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo…
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Friday Roundup: Building green in the Kingdom, Philadelphia’s Platinum neighborhood
Feature image: Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips: ‘Green buildings’ concept takes root in Kingdom, Arab News. USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi visited Riy…
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Scholarship recipients in their own words
Category: Story Published on: 6 Dec 2013 Feature image: …
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Costs of Eating Healthy Pay Off Over Time
Eating healthy costs a little bit more every day, a new study says. But in the long run, a healthy diet costs very little compared to the lifetime cost of treating diet-related chronic diseases, said the study’s authors. The study, published this week in the journal BMJ Open, analyzed diet and price information from 10 countries.…