Category: Green Building LEED News
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14 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving
Take these small steps to make your Thanksgiving celebration more environmentally friendly: 1. Use the good dishes and cloth napkins. Disposable dishes and plastic utensils create a ton of waste. If reusable won’t work, choose disposable plates, cups, napkins and utensils made from 100 percent post-consumer waste recycled paper, sugarcane and corn—they are compostable, too. [caption…
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Building a luxury brand
Feature image: About 20 years ago, someone tried to describe a brand to me thusly: imagine in your mind a small, long rectangular white box on a store shelf. By itself, that bo…
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3 Ways Businesses and Policymakers Can Walk the Talk to Conquer Climate Change
[caption id="attachment_312980" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] By Andrew Steer It’s time for businesses and governments to step up to the climate challenge and match words to actions. This week at the annual international climate talks in Warsaw, companies, policymakers, and civil society participated in an event to deepen business engagement on climate policy. Such interaction…
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Mass Walk-Out at UN Climate Talks Protests Lack of Progress
By Paul Brown It is first time in 19 years of tortuous annual negotiations over targets and timetables for saving the Earth’s climate from overheating that the non-governmental organizations have felt sufficiently frustrated to take such a step. [caption id="attachment_312963" align="alignnone" width="500"] Organizations frustrated with the pace and progress of the UN climate talks in…
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Renewable Energy Provides 99% of All New Electricity in Oct. 2013
According to the latest “Energy Infrastructure Update” report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects, solar, biomass and wind “units” provided 694 MW of new electrical generating capacity last month or 99.3% of all new generation placed […] — Solar Builder magazine