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IKEA USA Installs 30,000 Sq Ft Solar Array. 11 More Planned.
News that IKEA was buying a 12MW wind farm and installing 2MW of solar in the UK had some commenters wishing that other big box retailers would follow their lead. We have, of course, already seen some...
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Canadian Government Fires Environment Ministry Scientists and Meteorologists,...
Image credit Edward Burtynsky on the Alberta Tar Sands I just love the juxtaposition of these two stories in today’s newspapers; in The Star, we learn that the Environment Ministry is cutting 700...
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The Backyard House Provides a Green Roofed Escape in Los Angeles
Designed for the Los Angeles landscape, the Backyard House translates the typical backyard and its corresponding parts into a residence that seamlessly fuses the indoors with the outdoors. A small hot...
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Denver Union Station Will Be Transformed Into a LEED Gold Transit Hub and Hotel
Denver’s vaunted Union Station – once the transportation gateway to the west – recently received the nod to be renewed as a contemporary vision of urbanity and clean transportation. The Union Station...
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Green For All Promotes a More Sustainable State of the Union
Oakland-based Green For All unveiled "A Plan to Keep America First" today, a four-point course of action it claims will put people back to work. Continued here: Green For All Promotes a More...
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The Caribbean’s Coral Reefs Could Soon Be Extinct
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has released a report saying that the Caribbean’s iconic reefs are in sharp decline, with live coral coverage down to an average of just eight...
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Floating East River Pool Inches Closer to Reality with Mini Float Lab
The team behind the + Pool , a floating pool proposed for the East River, has launched a mini version of their design to test its water filtering abilities. Called the Float Lab, the model will be...
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Magnificent Gabled School Shows Great Design Doesn’t Have to be Expensive in...
This magnificent gabled structure serves as an activities center and crèche for the Wilberforce Primary School in Westminster, London. But it used to be nothing more than a dimly lit portakabin....
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Food Waste Fuels Vertical Farming in Chicago
The Windy City is turning into a hotbed of sustainable urban agriculture. Entrepreneur John Edel is transforming The Plant , a 1920s era meatpacking facility in Chicago’s industrial Back of the Yards...
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Obama plans to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge against drilling and...
As President Obama put it in his State of the Union address, he has “no more campaigns left to run.” Therefore it looks like he is using his remaining time in office to make as much of a difference as...
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Obama’s final State of the Union smacks down climate deniers with awesome...
In his final State of the Union address to Congress and the American people on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama looked beyond his two terms in the White House to a future where climate deniers...
View ArticleWill the world’s 9 biggest seafood companies help save the oceans?
Cargill, Thai Union Group among “keystone companies” with about $30 billion in revenue pledging to fight illegal fishing, plastic pollution and climate change. Continued here: Will the world’s 9...
View ArticleWill the world’s 9 biggest seafood companies help save the oceans?
Cargill, Thai Union Group among “keystone companies” with about $30 billion in revenue pledging to fight illegal fishing, plastic pollution and climate change. Read the original post: Will the world’s...
View ArticleFact-checking Trump’s State of the Union speech on energy and climate change
Last night, President Donald Trump took to the podium to address a nation historically divided, framing his speech as a call for unity. Despite an advertised unified front, the specific details of...
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The Union Flats is a LEED Platinum-certified housing community
Prefab architecture and energy efficiency go hand-in-hand at The Union Flats, one of the largest completed modular housing developments in Northern California. Located in Union City directly across...
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Denver Union Station Will Be Transformed Into a LEED Gold Transit Hub and Hotel
Denver’s vaunted Union Station – once the transportation gateway to the west – recently received the nod to be renewed as a contemporary vision of urbanity and clean transportation. The Union Station...
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Green For All Promotes a More Sustainable State of the Union
Oakland-based Green For All unveiled "A Plan to Keep America First" today, a four-point course of action it claims will put people back to work. Continued here: Green For All Promotes a More...
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