Builders will soon be able to earn credit toward LEED certification by embracing design elements that limit feathered fatalities.
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Oct 15
Green Blog: From Oil and Gas Revenue, the Greenest of Schools
A new K-to-12 school in rural Mosca, Colo., offers plenty of natural daylight and other design features intended to create a better learning environment while reducing energy costs for the district.
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Green Blog: Policing Your Power-Hungry Appliances
Belkin has a new line of products that measure the electricity consumption of specific bulbs or appliances, calculate the costs and find ways to achieve savings.
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Green: Philips Wins Energy Department’s Lighting Prize
The prize LED bulb uses just 9.7 watts to match the light output of a 60-watt incandescent, compared with 12.5 watts of its currently sold LED product.
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Green: A Bigger ‘Battle of the Buildings’
This year, 245 buildings — including hospitals, schools, banks and churches — are competing to reduce their energy consumption, up from 14 last year.
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Green: New York Parents Sue to Speed PCB Cleanup in Schools
Arguing that a 10-year time line is far too long, lawyers for the parents assert that light fixtures leaking PCBs could be replaced within two years.
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Green: Lighting the Hopes of the Gridless
A philanthropic group tries to marry financial capital with new energy technologies to introduce devices intended for the 1.4 billion people who live off the grid.
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Green: Lighting the Hopes of the Grid-less
A philanthropic group tries to marry financial capital with new energy technologies to introduce devices intended for the 1.4 billion people who live off the grid.
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Green: The Light-Bulb Mandate Endures
The effort failed to get the two-thirds majority needed for rules governing expedited measures.
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