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In honor of Climate Week and World Green Building Day, I thought I would highlight several internationally oriented articles. World Green Building Day comes at an auspicious time, coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, which is celebrating Climate Week ...read more

SANTA MONICA, CA — The United States could make its buildings more environmentally responsible and create more green jobs by taking a cue from programs in the European Union and Australia, according to new research by the Rand Corporation. Successful strategies include inspection, rating and ...read more

Most of us in the design and construction industry share in a widespread belief that technology can ultimately rescue us from any challenge we face. This belief is born of some very solid historical evidence: • In the past 150,000 years, human society has gone ...read more

A Toyota Prius converted to plug-in hybrid power by Duke Energy. Duke and another utility, the FPL Group, announced this week that by 2020 all new purchases of fleet vehicles for the two companies will be plug-in hybrid or all-electric. From our friends at the Wheels blog: To take off, the emerging electric vehicle market will ...read more

the numbers first set of numbers is the green score which is the overall, second is the enviro impact score, third is green polieces and Performance socre and last is the reputation survey score . 1. Hewlett-Packard → “Strong programs to reduce GHG emissions…. Technology 100.00 64.80 97.90 88.44 2. Dell → “Ranks 4th among the ...read more

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Coyote Springs Land Company And a new home for solar power. What to do when building a 159,000-home city in the Nevada desert and the housing market collapses? Go solar. The Coyote Springs Land Company this week expanded a deal with BrightSource Energy, a solar power developer based in Oakland, Calif., to carve out 12 square miles ...read more

EPA The actor and comedian Ben Stiller could be seen taking furious notes during a panel discussion on the clean-energy infrastructure at Thursday’s meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. The Crown Prince and Princess of Norway joined the comedian and actor Ben Stiller — and hundreds of other eager guests — to hear a ...read more

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President Hu Jintao of China has just unveiled before the world a new set of actions that China will undertake to curb their global warming pollution.  The remarks were made today as a part of the UN Secretary General’s high-level summit on global warming.  The event (as I discussed here) is one part of the critical ...read more

Algaeus visits the Capitol. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) was among those saluting. (Sapphire Energy photo) You can always get press when you travel cross country–walking, bicycling, hopping on one foot, riding a horse, an antique car or–better yet–a green one. That’s just what the media-savvy Josh Tickell, director of the new film Fuel and author of ...read more