Category: Green Building LEED News
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Free Mike Roselle From Jail … Free Appalachia From Mountaintop Removal
Nearly four years ago, long-time environmental activist and Kentucky-native Mike Roselle sat in the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, with one simple message: Mountaintop removal mining, the most egregious human rights and environmental violation tolerated in our nation, must be abolished, not regulated. A couple of days ago—four years after governmental inaction and continual mountaintop…
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Incubator Expands Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Creating Game-Changing Energy Technologies
It’s hard to ascertain how much power exists in Greentown Labs’ numbers—the small business incubator just keeps growing. The Sommerville, Mass. sustainable startup accelerator started out two years ago as a small group of like-minded entrepreneurs in a Cambridge warehouse bouncing ideas off one another. Their desire to share research and development methods and resources—and…
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14 Questions That Pave the Way to a Longer Life and Healthier Planet
Answering 14 simple questions about what you eat and drink each week could pave the way to a longer life and healthier planet. The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Food Day program has an online social tool that grades the health, animal welfare and environmental impacts of your diet. [caption id="attachment_313728" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: Shutterstock[/caption]…
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People Around the Country Give #ClimateThanks
This Thanksgiving, people around the country who have felt some of the most severe impacts of climate change have come together to thank people taking action—in large and small ways—to try to stop the unfolding catastrophe. This remarkable video shows people from Louisiana to Alaska standing together against the big money fossil fuel companies who are destroying…
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8 Green Building Processes Being Adopted In 2013