Category: Green Building LEED News
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Free Web Tool Helps Architects and Designers Build Low-Carbon, Resilient Built Environments
The race to carbon neutrality by 2030 continues, and one nonprofit organization has created an online platform to help building designers and planners get there. The 2030 Palette, created by Architecture 2030, is a free tool that helps planners, designers and architects ensure their built environments can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) levels and eventually emit…
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House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public Lands
By a vote of 235-187, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved its latest giveaway to the oil and gas industry—a bill that would fast track the approval of fracking on public lands, according to Environment America. [caption id="attachment_312869" align="alignnone" width="500"] The bill approved yesterday is one of three anit-environmental, pro-industry bills expected to pass the…
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20 years of LEED: In loving memory
Category: Story Published on: 21 Nov 2013 Feature image: …
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Xtreme Power Announces New Energy Storage Project in Hawaii
Xtreme Power, a world leader in integrated power management and energy storage solutions, is proud to announce a new project in Hawaii with the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC). The KIUC IV project will be installed on a new 12-MW […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Hawaii’s Big Island Bans GMO Crops and Biotech Companies
The Big Island of Hawaii has a new law that bans biotech companies, as well as all open-air growing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The bill exempts papayas and other GMO crops currently being cultivated and includes fines of $1,000 a day for violators. [caption id="attachment_312845" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: GMO Free Hawaii Island[/caption] Mayor Billy Kenoi hasn’t indicated…