Category: Green Building LEED News
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Unsubsidized Big Solar Competes With Natural Gas by 2025
Utility-scale solar will be able to compete on price with natural gas in most of the world by 2025, but the transition could be turbulent.
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Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge Expands to Multifamily Housing
The successful program challenges building owners to cut energy use 20% in 10 years.
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Rabbi Klein: Are Chanukah Doughnuts Killing Tigers?
This year, as we celebrate Chanukah and we remember the story of the miraculous oil, it’s worth taking a moment to ask—what kind of oil are we talking about? The Talmud states that the menorah, at the center of the Chanukah story, can only be lit with pure, pressed olive oil. We honor that miracle…
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Wind Tax Credit Labeled ‘Welfare’ by Koch-Funded Groups
By Jeff Spross The Institute for Energy Research (IER) has a new study out arguing against tax credits for wind energy on very odd grounds. Specifically, the study looks into the production tax credit (PTC) for wind energy, which was first passed in 1992, updated by the 2009 stimulus bill, and will probably expire at the end of this year…
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20 years of USGBC: Greening your own path
Category: Story Published on: 2 Dec 2013 Feature image: …