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IWBI Lowers 2020 WELL AP Exam Registration Fees and will Donate 20% of all 2020 WELL AP Registration Fees

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) announced that through 2020, the organization is lowering the cost of registration to pursue the WELL AP credential by over 50 percent, to $299. S

Filed under: Health and Air Quality,

Buildings and Our Health - News and Information

Keywords: Healthy Buildings, Well AP,

0 replies | 4328 views | Posted on: 04/05/2020 | Last updated: 04/05/2020

Stephanie Horowitz of ZeroEnergy Design, Interviewed by Architectural Digest on Architecture and Climate Change

by Rate It Green Team

Stephanie Horowitz, Managing Director at ZeroEnergy Design, a Rate It Green Member, was recently interviewed for an article by Elizabeth Stamp of Architectural Digest: “How the Architecture Indu

Filed under: Architects ,

Keywords: Green Building, Architecture, Netpositive Energy,

0 replies | 2320 views | Posted on: 04/03/2020 | Last updated: 02/06/2023

Video: Common Sense Dos and Don'ts for Dealing with COVID-19 and Indoor Air Quality in Your Homes and Workplace

by Rate It Green Team


Matt Hoots of Sawhorse Design, Inc. has created a video explaining some of the most important factors we should consider in managing cleaning, disinfecting and general safety as we spend more ti

Filed under: Health and Air Quality,

Buildings and Our Health - News and Information

Keywords: Health, Healthy Buildings, Covid-19, Homes,

0 replies | 4644 views | Posted on: 03/26/2020 | Last updated: 02/06/2023

Nixon Peabody has shared Covid-19 Guidance for Owners and Managers of Multifamily Residential Properties

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

"Owners and managers of multifamily housing properties face the same challenges that all business owners face from the Covid-19 virus—“How do I insure I can keep my business running?&

Filed under: Health and Air Quality,

Buildings and Our Health - News and Information

0 replies | 1261 views | Posted on: 03/25/2020 | Last updated: 04/02/2020

Maine Indoor Air Quality Council - Compilation of Resources for Management of the Indoor Environment During the COVID-19 Epidemic

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Maine Indoor Air Quality Council has put together a "Compilation of Resources for Management of the Indoor Environment During the COVID-19 Epidemic:"

https://maineindoorair.org/resources-

Filed under: Health and Air Quality,

Buildings and Our Health - News and Information

Keywords: Healthy Building, Health, Indoor Air Quality, Maine Indoor Air Quality Council,

0 replies | 1062 views | Posted on: 03/22/2020 | Last updated: 03/22/2020

Global GreenTag Launches the World’s First Modern Slavery Transparency Declaration

by Rate It Green Team

“The time has come for Modern Slavery to be removed from history,”  
 -Mary-Lou Kelly, Global GreenTag, Managing Director
 

The Global GreenTag Modern Slavery Tran



Filed under: Transparency/Disclosure Documentation,

0 replies | 2446 views | Posted on: 03/05/2020 | Last updated: 03/22/2021

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Vocational Internship Program - Registration is Open for the Spring Semester! (Contact MassCEC by February 5)

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has launched a new program to support the development of clean energy companies in MA. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Vocational Internship Program

Filed under: Green Building Jobs,

0 replies | 969 views | Posted on: 02/03/2020 | Last updated: 02/03/2020

Where are the best places (online or in person) to shop for a new healthy and sustainable residential rug or carpet?

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

So my son wants a new rug for his room, and we need a new rug in the basemet, preferably a thick one since this is going in a room a band practices in, and they want to keep the sound from bouncing a

Filed under: Other,

Keywords: Green Building, Healthy Building Materials, Materials, Flooring, Healthy Buildings, Rugs, Carpets, Carpeting,

0 replies | 2674 views | Posted on: 01/31/2020 | Last updated: 02/06/2023

Microsoft Pledges to Go Carbon Negative by 2030 Including a $1 Billion Climate Innovation Fund

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Microsoft took an impressive climate leadership position this week when the company announced a promise to remove all of the carbon the company has ever put in the atmosphere directly or by consumptio

Filed under: Climate Change,

Keywords: Climate Change, Microsoft, Climate Leadership, Carbon Negative,

0 replies | 2782 views | Posted on: 01/27/2020 | Last updated: 02/07/2023

Google's Henderson, Nevada Data Center to be Powered by a $1 Billion Solar Farm

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Google’s new data center in Henderson, Nevada will be powered largely by a $1 billion solar farm.  The project is one of the largest corporate solar deals signed in the US, and maybe t

Filed under: Renewable Energy,

Keywords: Solar, Renewable Energy, google, Nevada,

0 replies | 4675 views | Posted on: 01/27/2020 | Last updated: 01/27/2020

Arizona Public Service Company (APS) Announces a Commitment to Carbon-Free Energy Production by 2050

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Arizona Public Service Company (APS) CEO Jeff Guldner announced that the company will produce all electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050 and will produce 45% of power from renewable sources by 2

Filed under: Energy,

Keywords: Climate Change, Utilities, Carbon-Free,

0 replies | 2305 views | Posted on: 01/27/2020 | Last updated: 02/07/2023

Chicago's Willis Tower Goes LEED Platinum

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, is now the largest US building to achieve the USGBC’s LEED Platinum rating.  At 1451 feet tall, the building was the world&r

Filed under: LEED (USGBC),

Illinois Green Building Group

Keywords: Green Building, LEED Platinum, Willis Tower,

0 replies | 2329 views | Posted on: 01/27/2020 | Last updated: 02/07/2023

Did You Know that Consumer Funding for Electric Vehicles has been Reinstated in Massachusetts?

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Great news: Rebates for electric vehicles have been reinstated in Massachusetts! 

Rebates for electric vehicles have been reinstated in Massachusetts! For the next two years, at least $27

Filed under: Electric Vehicles,

Massachusetts Green Builders

Keywords: EV, Electric Vehicles,

0 replies | 1080 views | Posted on: 01/27/2020 | Last updated: 01/27/2020

Rhode Island is the First US State to Commit to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

In her annual State of the State speech to lawmakers, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order this month calling for an end to fossil fuel reliance by 2030.  The action make

Filed under: Renewable Energy,

Rhode Island Green Building

Keywords: Energy, Wind, Rhode Island, Offshore Wind, 100% Renewable Energy,

0 replies | 3936 views | Posted on: 01/26/2020 | Last updated: 02/07/2023

Minneapolis City Council Approves “Home Energy Score" Requirement for Real Estate Transactions

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Home energy data collection is now a part of required Truth in Sale of Housing (TISH) evaluations in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The data is used to generate an Energy Disclosure report to be used i

Filed under: Real Estate,

0 replies | 2549 views | Posted on: 01/26/2020 | Last updated: 02/07/2023

Tiny Home Communities in Development for Homeless Veterans - Nine-Line Foundation and Veterans Community Project (VCP)

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

The Nine-Line Foundation has partnered with the Golden Isles Veterans Village to build a new development of tiny homes for homeless veterans in Brunswick, Georgia.  Between 30 and 40 homes will b

Filed under: Tiny Houses,

Tiny Houses

0 replies | 3781 views | Posted on: 01/26/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023

The World’s First LEED Zero Water Certification

by Suelen Ribeiro // Architect/ LEED GA

The USGBC has on August 14th, 2019, certified the first LEED Zero Water to the Eurobusiness, a commercial office building located in Curitiba, Brazil. The building had already achieved the Platinum ce

Filed under: Green Building News,

Brasil Green Building

Keywords: Green Building, Green Building Awards, Net Zero Water, LEED Certification,

0 replies | 5955 views | Posted on: 01/12/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023

Indoor Air Quality 101

by FGHVAC

Ensuring high ventilation rates to dilute CO2 and other gases that cause negative effects on humans should be a priority in commercial and industrial buildings, but that is not always the case. I

City Buildings in River Falls, Wisconsin are now Powered with 100% Renewable Energy

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

On January first and after years of effort to cut dependence on fossil fuel use, River Falls Wisconsin “flipped a switch” to power all city buildings with 100% renewable energy.  This

Filed under: Renewable Energy,

Wisconsin Green Building Group

Keywords: 100% Renewable Energy, River Falls, Wisconsin,

0 replies | 1090 views | Posted on: 01/05/2020 | Last updated: 01/26/2020

How the Living Building Challenge Moves the Green Building Industry Forward

by abu417 // Climate Connoisseur. Eco-Maniac. Solar Sommelier.

            Being an intern at RateItGreen.com, I learned a lot of vocabulary and catchy names along the way. The things that really stuck out to

Filed under: Certifications/Labels and Transparency ,

Keywords: Hitchcock Center for the Environment, R.W. Kern Center,

0 replies | 2872 views | Posted on: 01/02/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023

Sustainable Job Opportunity - The National Housing Trust, State Policy and Equity Advocate

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Position Summary:

This is an exciting opportunity for a coalition-builder interested in working at the intersection of affordable housing policy, environmental policy, and racial equity. The State

Filed under: Green Building Jobs,

0 replies | 1011 views | Posted on: 12/09/2019 | Last updated: 12/09/2019

Sustainable Job Opportunity - NeighborWorks: Director, Healthy Homes and Communities

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Position Summary:

NeighborWorks launched the Healthy Homes and Communities Initiative in 2014 to advance efforts at the nexus of health, housing and community development. Through this initiative,

Filed under: Green Building Jobs,

0 replies | 1210 views | Posted on: 12/09/2019 | Last updated: 12/10/2019

Sustainable Job Opportunity: Harvard University, Assistant Director of Communications, Sustainability

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Position Summary: The Sustainability Manager, reporting to the Associate Director, utilizes a change management framework with members of the University community to drive implementation of major

Filed under: Green Building Jobs,

0 replies | 420 views | Posted on: 12/09/2019 | Last updated: 12/18/2019

Sustainable Job Opportunity: Harvard University, Sustainability Manager

by Allison Friedman // Rate It Green Admin

Duties & Responsibilities:

Position Summary: The Sustainability Manager, reporting to the Associate Director, utilizes a change management framework with members of the University communit

Filed under: Green Building Jobs,

0 replies | 1327 views | Posted on: 12/09/2019 | Last updated: 12/09/2019

 

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