In TerraBlog - Posted 1 week ago

by Mira Rubin Karp Last week I had the pleasure of attending Greenbuild 08, a conference and expo dedicated to (quite obviously) green building. The ...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 2 weeks ago

Geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) are heating/cooling systems that take advantage of stable temperatures within the earth. This provides typical annual en...

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In Triple Pundit - Posted 2 weeks ago

GreenerBuildings.com released its 2008 Green Building Impact Report yesterday, the first comprehensive evaluation of the real and verifiable environm...

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In Joel Makower Two Steps Forward - Posted 2 weeks ago

There's no question that green buildings represent one of the genuine success stories of green business. Thanks in large part to the LEED green buildi...

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In GristMill - Posted 2 weeks ago

By Joseph RommThe International Energy Agency is out with its World Energy Outlook 2008. I wrote last week about the report's stark conclusions on oi...

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In EcoGeek - Posted 2 weeks ago

On November 4, Californians voted in favor of a new high speed rail system that will carry passengers the 800 miles from Sacramento to San Diego. Sin...

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In EcoGeek - Posted 2 weeks ago

There's good news for The New York Times, at least about their building. The New York Times Building was designed to use 1.28 watts per square foot o...

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In Triple Pundit - Posted 3 weeks ago

Amidst a free-falling roller coaster global economy, social capital is an encouraging bright spot. While traditional profit-driven capitalism has com...

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In GristMill - Posted 3 weeks ago

By Joseph Romm Robert Pollin has issued a direct rebuttal, Green Investments and Jobs, to the Heritage Foundation's lame debunking of Green Re...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 4 weeks ago

Last week at a partnership meeting with the Organization of American States (OAS), NRDC launched a new initiative for energy conservation called Relig...

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