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Earth Day’s been around my whole life.
This year, we celebrated 43 years to the day from the first one, April 22nd, 1970. What’s changed? And is anything better?
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Congressman Matheson Toasts 322 Green Campuses
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Every once in a while, it’s kinda nice to see that over 300 colleges and universities are taking action based on the work you’re doing. That’s exactly what happened last week when the Congressional Green Schools Caucus hosted a reception at the U.S. Capitol honoring higher education institutions featured in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition.
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State Legislatures Sow Seeds of Opportunity for Healthy, High-Performing Schools
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Since the beginning of 2013, the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council has followed more than 90 bills across 30 states that seek to advance healthy, high-performing schools. This number is up even from last year, and continues to validate what our movement has long understood – that there’s a lot of common ground around the potential that healthy, high-performing schools provide (see our related advocacy campaign).
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New Green School Investment Guide Links Opportunities With Strategies
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Today, the Center for Green Schools and Architecture for Humanity released a new tool for catalyzing school building improvements in communities across the country. The Green School Investment Guide for Healthy, Efficient and Inspiring Learning Spaces was designed to help school stakeholders advocate for renovations, re
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Infographic: LEED in Motion
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USGBC has released a new infographic to illustrate how the LEED green building rating system has contributed to the growth of an entire global industry devoted to creating a sustainable built environment.
The infographic, “LEED in Motion: Driving the Green Building Industry,” is a visual depiction of the many facets of LEED, the voluntary, market-based program developed by USGBC that has changed the way our society thinks about buildings and their role in global environmental stewardship.
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Metrus Infographic: Which Financing Vehicle Gets You on the Road to Energy Efficiency
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While many building owners and facilities managers understand that the cheapest kilowatthour is the one you don’t consume, most energy efficiency projects leave a lot of energy savings on the table. Retrofits typically compete with strategic investments that are in a company’s main line of business for a share of capital budget resources. For this reason, capital budget allotments usually inhibit investments in integrated energy efficiency retrofit projects and instead favor single measure upgrades.
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PolicyPalooza 2013 Recap: Three Big Days in Sacramento
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After last year’s epic USGBC California Road to Greenbuild/ “Top10” Advocacy Day, more than one commentator posed the “how can we top this?” question. It turns out that there was little need to worry. This year’s model, PolicyPalooza 2013, was bigger, better and bolder, comprising three full days of meetings, sessions and convening.
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Project Spotlight: ECOModern Flats
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ECO Modern Flats is sustainable living made attainable. The project not only transformed a formerly dilapidated property, but also changed the way that people in the region think about multi-family property. “ECO Modern Flats raised the bar for what people expect of a multi-family development in Northwest Arkansas,” said Linda K. Smith, the Executive Director of the U.S. Green Building Council—Arkansas Chapter. “It has energy and water conservation, but also unique architecture and interior design. It is an outstanding project.”
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Volunteer With the Green Apple Team in Your Own Backyard!
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