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The World’s First LEED Zero Water Certification
The USGBC has on August 14th, 2019, certified the first LEED Zero Water to the Eurobusiness, a commercial office building located in Curitiba, Brazil. The building had already achieved the Platinum certification in 2016, the highest LEED ac… more...
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0 replies | 5986 views | Posted on: 01/12/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023
R56 Communication Site Installer
The R56 Communication Site Installer is the trained professional who would be involved in the set-up, supervision, routing, distributing, and switching as required by the telephone and dialing equipment that would be used in the main office… more...
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0 replies | 447 views | Posted on: 05/26/2020 | Last updated: 02/06/2023
AIA 2030 Recognizes ZeroEnergy Design's Achievements in Portfolio-wide EUI Achievement
Congratulations to Rate It Green Member Zero Energy Design! ZED was recently recognized by the American Association of Architects (AIA) for being one of only 27 US architectural firms where a 70% or greater Energy Use Intensity (EUI) … more...
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0 replies | 1947 views | Posted on: 10/18/2020 | Last updated: 02/09/2021
Women in Cleantech: How The 2020 Election Result Will Affect Cleantech, November 24, 8pm EDT
Join the WCS Los Angeles Chapter for an engaging and dynamic discussion about the 2020 election results. For the first time in a Presidential Election, climate change was used as a political issue to turn out the vote (source). And … more...
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0 replies | 2335 views | Posted on: 11/12/2020 | Last updated: 11/12/2020
Virtual 2020 Sustainability Symposium, Presented by Green Building United, October 22 - 23
The Symposium will be two days of online educational sessions covering cutting edge green building and sustainability topics and industry best practices. Please join us to hear experts from across the region and beyond as they gat… more...
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0 replies | 1336 views | Posted on: 10/08/2020 | Last updated: 10/08/2020
More Green Buildings = More Jobs
The green building industry is expected to generate more than 6.5 million jobs by 2030, according to predictions by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Next to energy, this will be the second fastest growing sector fo… more...
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0 replies | 5732 views | Posted on: 10/01/2018 | Last updated: 10/23/2018
BREEAM Brings Competition to the US Green Building Certification Market
BREEAM, the leading UK green-building rating system, has recently crossed the pond, looking to take on its US counterpart LEED in the market for green building. Over the last 24 years, the international Building Research Establishment Envir… more...
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0 replies | 3243 views | Posted on: 06/17/2016 | Last updated: 02/13/2017
NY Officially Bans Fracking
Last week a monumental decision was made in New York State to officially ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”). Included in this decision was the release of the findings from the seven year study conducted to come to this… more...
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0 replies | 1751 views | Posted on: 07/07/2015 | Last updated: 08/01/2016
Volkswagen Punished for Emissions Cheating
In September 2015 a report came out stating that 11 million of Volkswagen's cars contained software that falsified emission data. Since then, the car manufacturer has been facing a great deal of scrutiny and has been subjected to many lawsu… more...
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0 replies | 1370 views | Posted on: 06/25/2016 | Last updated: 06/25/2016
Will The Sun Shine on Tesla’s Acquisition of SolarCity?
The cleantech-savvy vanguard, Elon Musk of Tesla Motors, recently offered to buy his cousin Lyndon Rive's company, SolarCity, in an unexpected deal that values the solar installer at more than $2.5 billion. This contract represents a value … more...
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0 replies | 2769 views | Posted on: 06/22/2016 | Last updated: 06/22/2016
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