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IGCC Variant Green Building Standard for Public Buildings in Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia requires that new construction and renovation of state government buildings be green. And now Virginia has become the latest government to mandate an alternative compliance...
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You Can Change The Green Building Standard Today
ASHRAE standard 189.1 will be republished in 2014 for adoption in the IgCC 2015. You can go online today and participate in meetings, public reviews, and more ..In an environment of green building...
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It is Settled. The Wind Blows in Prattsburgh.
After a failed moratorium and years of litigation to void a settlement agreement, 34 wind turbines may finally be erected in the Town of Prattsburgh, New York.Wind is one of the cleanest and most...
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ICC 700 Residential Green Certifications Will More Than Double in 2014
Today there are 29,724 ICC 700 National Green Building Standard certified homes and lots. As the residential green code is on the cusp of eclipsing 30,000 certifications, more than a dozen governments...
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LEED for Homes v2008 Update to be Balloted
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes v2008 rating system is proposed to be updated and balloting on the update will begin on February 3, 2014 (.. yes, version 2008).Launched in February...
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EPA Seeks Comment on Ecolabels and Product Environmental Performance...
Against a backdrop in early 2014 where by many measures environmental progress in business appears to have plateaued, Environmental Product Declarations are among the hottest topics in sustainability....
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1,500th Envision Sustainability Professional Credentialed
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure announced that earlier this week it reached the milestone of 1,500 Envision Sustainability Professionals who have been credentialed in the use of the...
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If Green Building is Going to Save the Planet it Will Have to Include Green...
There are 3,980,817 miles of roads in the United States. Roads are the largest built structures we come into contact with and yet they are so ubiquitous and familiar that they have become an impervious...
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Model Sustainability and Green Building Initiatives for a More Verdant City...
A package of local government bills introduced on January 29th aim to ensure that Montgomery County, Maryland remains at the sustainability forefront. The legislation submitted by Councilmember Roger...
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Pollution Legal Liability Insurance More Valuable as a Result of High Court...
Insurance companies cannot recover environmental cleanup costs paid to their insured under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, commonly known as Superfund,...
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The Best Kept Secret in Green Building - a Conversation with Jerry Yudelson
I had a conversation with Jerry Yudelson last week, six weeks after he became the President of the Green Building Initiative, .. the non profit with the rights to distribute Green Globes in the United...
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The Wild West of Solar Renewable Energy Credits
The closing of the doors last week at a mid-Atlantic states solar installer highlights the uncertainty of the photovoltaic market and brings to the fore the vagrancies of renewable energy credits...
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Do Not Sell the RECs and Claim the Building Uses Renewable Energy
Owners of buildings that generate onsite renewable energy, with solar panels or otherwise, and sell the renewable energy credits (RECs) should not claim the building “uses renewable energy.” The term...
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You Can Participate in Updating the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard
With nearly 128 million residential housing units existed in the U.S., if green building is going to mitigate the negative impacts that human activity has on the planet, green building must include...
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EPDs are Among the Hottest Topics in Green Building
An environmental product declaration (EPD) is a method of quantifying the environmental impacts of a product. It is analogous to the nutritional label on a box of cereal. In the context of green...
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EPDs are New and Untested but in Short Order will Dominate
An environmental product declaration (EPD) is a method of quantifying the environmental impacts of a product in order to provide a sound basis for making decisions about the use of that product. As...
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LEED Law Intersects Miracle on 34th Street
On March 18th the Tomkins County legislature enacted a new local law providing for up to a 10 year property tax abatement for construction achieving LEED certification.Tomkins County, New York which...
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LEED Reaches 3 Billion Certified Square Feet
The U.S. Green Building Council is about to announce that there are more than 3 Billion square feet of LEED certified commercial and institutional building.Three Billion! That is a three followed by...
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The Single Most Significant Change in LEED
By Jacqueline Lusk and Stuart KaplowThe newest version of LEED, with the designation LEED v4 is not simply another step in the continuous improvement of the third party verified green building rating...
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Why You Care About the Revision to OMB Circular A-119?
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget is seeking comments, no later than May 12, 2014, on proposed revisions to Circular A-119, “Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary...
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