Obama Announces Billions for 'Smart' Power Grid
President Barack Obama has announced $3.4 billion in spending for the nation's power transmission system to foster new technologies. He likened the effort to the ambitious development of
the national highway system 50 years ago. (Oct. 27)
HALL Wines Earns Distinctive Gold LEED® Certification
HALL Wines, the premier 21st century vineyard and winery, announces today that it has received the prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold Certification for its Napa Valley St. Helena winery, becoming the first winery in California to be distinguished as a Gold certified facility by the U.S. Green Building
Council's LEED® Green Building Rating System™
How Will Obama Impact Green Building?
Jerry Yudelson of Yudelson Associates, one of the leading green building consults in the United States, describes how the Obama Administration will affect the green building industry.
Metro-North Railroad's $91 million train station and overpass construction is underway. When completed next year, it will allow fans to board Hudson, Harlem and New Haven trains directly to the new Yankee Stadium.
When it comes to taking the train to the Yankees game, there's one more option to taking the B,D and 4 subway lines. This baseball season, Yankees fans can for the first time take Metro-North to a station that is now nearing completion near the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx's Concourse Village.
SEPTA Faces Fight Over 5-Story Garage
Jenkintown-Wyncote Neighbors Vow To
Fight Proposal
SEPTA has big plans to alleviate the headaches many commuters face every weekday at one popular train station in Montgomery County. But those plans may not get very far if local residents get their way. On the Wyncote side of the Jenkintown SEPTA station, where commuters park, she couldn't find a single open parking space Friday.
That's why SEPTA wants to build a giant parking garage on the site. The idea, however, is turning out to be about as popular as a fare increase.
On March 27, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags. The impact of plastic bags on the environment is well known, but what is not as widely discussed is that paper bags are harmful as well. Be a dutiful citizen and use reusable or compostable bags that dramatically lessen your impact on the Earth.
An explosion in green building is underway, with cleverly engineered libraries, office buildings, even public housing projects popping up across the Bay Area, and championed as much by landlords trying to cut energy and water costs as by environmental groups.
Ed Norton, Green Building Saves Money, Environment
Testimony of Edward Norton On Behalf of Enterprise Community Partners For the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming United States House of Representatives
“Building Green, Saving Green: Constructing Sustainable and Energy Efficient Buildings”
May 14, 2008
