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EU embraces green infrastructure package
2013-05-08 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: The European Union adopted a new strategy yesterday (6 May) aimed at promoting green infrastructure, and putting natural processes at the heart of its spatial planning. EU money will now encourage green solutions to infrastructure problems, such as allowing natural wetlands to absorb excess water from heavy rain, instead of building concrete flood protection infrastructure. In what green campaigners in Brussels view as a 'Eureka moment', the package will allow stone beaches to receive preferential...
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Bernards New LEED Silver HQ Reflects Californias Green Building Push
2013-05-07 16:11:00| National Real Estate Investor
California is often touted as the most environmentally progressive state in the nation—and given the state’s new Net Zero Energy (NZE) initiative, that isn’t surprising. NZE status requires that buildings generate as much energy as they consume, without creating a carbon footprint. California’s goal is ambitious: the state aims to reach statewide NZE status for all new commercial buildings by 2030 and residential buildings by 2020. read more
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Green Giant Fresh, C.H. Robinson partner on avocados
2013-05-07 06:41:08| Logistics - Topix.net
Eden Prairie, Minn.-based C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. will distribute Green Giant Fresh's latest addition to its product line avocados when nationwide retail shipments start in late May.
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SE Ivon -Madison Green Street Project
2013-05-06 22:05:06| PortlandOnline
Construction coming in fall 2013
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Green Lifestyle Choices Don't Change the Systems That Make Fossil Fuels Attractive
2013-05-06 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Fossil fuels don't care which brand of paper towel you use. They don't care whether you put bamboo flooring in your kitchen, or upcycled your coffee table. Frankly, your personal efforts to insulate your house, drive less, and turn off lights when you leave a room barely register. That's because energy isn't about your personal choices, and it's not even exactly about the sources we use at a regional or local scale. Energy is systems. And all the green lifestyle changes in the world don't alter...
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