LEED Points

Tag: Sustainable Business

  • Top Companies Invested in Solar Energy Projects

    Some of the leading retailers and manufacturers are atop the list of businesses that have installed the most solar energy in the U.S. in the last year. The Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) “Solar Means Business” report, released yesterday, shows that businesses, nonprofits and governmental entities have installed 1,000 megawatts (MW) of new photovoltaic (PV) solar projects…

  • CU-Boulder Team Develops Water Splitting Technique that Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel

    A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a radically new technique that uses the power of sunlight to efficiently split water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen, paving the way for the broad use of hydrogen as a clean, green fuel.

  • Solectria Renewables to Power the Largest College Solar Installation in North America

    Patricia C. Donohue, MCCC President, said the solar farm moves MCCC forward on many fronts. “The solar farm will save critical dollars and enable us to restore to our budget many cuts in programs and services we have made over the past two years. It also helps us fulfill our sustainability goals. We have committed…

  • Guest Post: Is a Vegawatt Energy System Ideal for Your Restaurant?

    This guest post from Paul Taylor covers a topic about which many of us are interested, the generation of energy from sustainable sources. The tool Mr. Taylor introduces is called the Vegawatt, designed for restaurant use. Read on! – GRM As I constantly browse the Internet looking for new and innovative ways people have been…

  • Radio Waves Carry News of Climate Change

    Their research shows that the strength of radio signals on the ground is a reliable indicator of temperature change above. Prof. Price and his team used simple radio antennae on the ground to measure radio waves broadcast by navigational transmitters around the globe, then compared information on the strength of these radio signals with data…