Renewable Energy

  • Illinois Passes Legislation To Support Solar Industry

    The state’s General Assembly passed two bills to create new jobs and bring more than three million kWh of solar electricity to state consumers by 2014.

     
  • Recycled Fibers Make Low-VOC Textiles

    KnollTextiles' Harmony Collection includes four styles featuring recycled content.

     
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  • Community College Facility Embodies Sustainability

    A combination of carefully chosen renewable energy strategies and energy conservation techniques places students of Ohlone College in a living laboratory.

     
  • FBI's Chicago Regional Office Earns LEED Platinum

    For the past decade, USAA Real Estate Co., San Antonio, has managed its portfolio of more than $4.9 billion in assets with energy efficiency in mind. But the seven-time recipient of the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Partner of the Year award decided to...

     
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    Massachusetts Advocates Carbon-Neutral Construction

    Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) addressed the Greenfield, Mass.-based Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s annual conference and called on the assembled architects, designers, consultants, energy-service providers and contractors to help Massachusetts drive its expectations not up, but...

     
  • Thorough Research will Ensure Successful Small Wind Systems for Urban Areas

    An energy-efficient structure, which is defined as using 50 percent less energy than a building built to the International Energy Conservation Code 2008, is the first logical step toward reducing our buildings’ carbon footprints. When applying renewable-energy systems, or RES, to energy-efficient...

     
  • Economic Recovery to Depend on New Green-Collar Workforce

    On a bright Friday morning in February, Lisa Jackson, the new administrator of the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, took the podium at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington. It was the closing session of the three-day conference, which was organized by the...

     
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    The Sunny Island 5048U From SMA Technology

    The Sunny Island 5048U from SMA Technology AG provides continuous, off-grid power from renewable sources, like solar, wind and hydroelectric.

     
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    Sustainable Buildings Must Perform

    John Tooley, senior building science consultant with Advanced Energy, Raleigh, N.C., explains that doing it right the first time is an often-neglected aspect of sustainability.