Category: Green Building LEED News
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Local sustainability tradeshows keep growing
Category: Event Published on: 5 Dec 2013 Feature image: …
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5 Examples of Bioluminescence in Nature
By Beth Buczynski Unlike humans, who can flip a switch anytime the sun fails to provide enough light, plants and animals must provide their own solution to the darkness. “Bioluminescence is a primarily marine phenomenon. It is the predominant source of light in the largest fraction of the habitable volume of the earth, the deep…
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6 Green Alternatives to Toxic Holiday Decorations
Every Christmas season, U.S. consumers purchase tons of cheaply made garland, wrappings and ornaments that are chock-full of toxic chemicals. Why not try a green approach to holiday decorating this year that is gentler on the environment and is far more beautiful. Here are, courtesy of Care2, six common holiday decorations that contain harmful chemicals or…
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Vote on Ohio’s Renewable Energy Policy Placed on Hold
[caption id="attachment_314347" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: Climate Action BC[/caption] The fight over Ohio’s renewable energy policy is on hold, and there’s no telling when it will resume. Sen. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) cancelled a Senate Public Utilities Committee meeting this week in which members were expected to vote on a revised version of Senate Bill (SB) 58, which…
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Soltage to Construct 3.5-MW Solar System in Massachusetts
Soltage LLC announced today that it has completed a portfolio upsizing with an additional investment by NewWorld Environmental Infrastructure, L.P. The new project, a 3.5-MW solar photovoltaic power station to be constructed in Oxford, Mass., is the seventh project in […] — Solar Builder magazine