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E2’s Clean Energy Jobs America Report Released - 3.3 Million Clean Energy Jobs
"In every region and every state in America, clean energy is creating jobs and careers. Nationwide, nearly 50,000 new clean energy jobs were created in 2018, bringing the total number of Americans who work in clean energy to 3.26 million." - E2 According to E2, Clean Energy re...
We Don’t Have 50 Years to Wait" - Craig Foley's Article in the March-April Edition of REALTOR magazine
Rate It Green Member Craig Foley's article on the urgency of discussing climate change head on and with some bravery appears in the March-April issue of REALTOR magazine. Craig has long been active in Sustainable Real Estate, and he's looking to "begin a rea...
NEAPOLI receives Low Carbon City Award 2018
NEAPOLI, a Rate It Green Member Company, recently won the Low Carbon City Award for their PKNS Headquarters project in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. The award goes out to a project that best implements low carbon city initiatives that are promoted within the Malaysian Government’s Low ...
Cascades Founders Alain Bernard and Laurent Lemaire Join the Cercle des Grands Entrepreneurs du Quebec
The founders of Cascades, a Rate It Green Member Company, were recently nominated to the Cercle des Grands entrepreneurs du Quebec. Alain Bernard and Laurent Lemaire were among a small group of 6 accomplished entrepreneurs that joined the Cercle des Grands entrepreneurs du Quebec ...
Mindful Materials Pavilion to be Showcased at Futurebuild, March 5-7, in London
Futurebuild and GIGA have announced a partnership to create and launch a new Futurebuild product directory and a dedicated new area at the March 5th-7th event in London – The mindful MATERIALS Certification Pavilion. The pavilion will offer a unique, focused setting for Futurebu...
Rate It Green Member, One Click LCA, Awarded Energy Globe Award 2018
Rate It Green member, OneClick LCA, was recently awarded the Energy Globe Award for Finland 2018. Established in 1999, the Energy Globe Award is granted by the Energy Globe Foundation annually to “extraordinary sustainable projects” in order to promote sustainability worldwide.&nb...
Applications are open for the InNOVAte 2019 Challenge - Apply by April 8
Applications are open for the InNOVAte 2019 Challenge - Apply by April 8! In partnership with CertainTeed and Saint-Gobain NOVA, Greentown Labs is seeking applications for innovative ideas to disrupt the built environment value chain. This program will focus on innovation in ...
ZeroEnergy Design's Farmhouse Wins Sustainable Design Award from Boston Society of Architects (BSA)
Congratulations to ZeroEnergy Design for winning a Sustainable Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects at the 8th annual BSAAwards Gala this January. ZeroEnergy recieved this honor for the company's Lincoln Net Positive Farmhouse project. The 2900 sf N...
Appraisal Institute's FREE Guide to Value Green Buildings and Homes
Did you know that the Appraisal Institute published and offers a Commercial Green and Energy Efficient Addendum? This document provides a unique framework for assisting appraisers to value commercial asset and the value of its green component, such as solar panels and other ene...
Falling Prices Help Solar Add Value to Your Home
Having solar panels on your home used to be "more of an 'earth warrior' statement than a great way to power a home while reducing electric bills." It is no longer the case. When the solar panels were first introduced back in the 1970s, the cost per watt used to $70. Accordin...
Green Building Certifications Reach Record Levels in Nation’s Largest Cities
The number of America's certified green buildings are hitting a record high. Researchers have found green certified office space (either LEED certified or EPA's Energy Star label) across America’s 30 largest metro areas has reached 41 percent of market totals – ...
IPCC Report: Global Warming Crisis Could Come As Early As 2030
The new IPCC report issued in 2018 is "quite a shock, and quite concerning." said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. In 2016, the IPCC accepted an invitation to analyze the impact of 1.5 °C above th...
2018 International Green Construction Code (2018-IgCC), Released on November 8
The 2018 International Green Construction Code (2018-IgCC) was released on November 8 by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), International Code Council, ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). The 2018 International Green Construction Code, or 2018-IgCC, will help gove...
What are You Doing Today for Energy Efficiency Day?
October 5 has been declared Energy Efficiency Day, by the US Senate, and over 40 local governments and more than 300 communities, companies and organizations: https://bit.ly/2RtpohM To learn more and to take action in your home or neighborhood, visit: https://www.energ...
World Green Building Week - September 24-30
It's Green Building Week September 24th-30th! This is a time every year when the USGBC, World GBC and partnering chapters and organizations work to promote and really celebrate sustainable building materials, products, companies/organizations - and people - in a way d...
California Votes in Carbon-Free Electricity Generation, with a 2045 Target
Following Hawaii's lead and pending Governor Brown's expected signature, California lawmakers voted at the end of August to require 100 percent carbon-free electricity generation by 2045. California currently gets 29% of electricity, up from 11% a decade ago. ...
Ireland Will Become the World's First Country to Divest from Fossil Fuels
We know that UK church plans to dump $21 billions of fossil fuels if the companies do not align to climate change goals by 2023. Now, the practice levels up to a national action in Ireland. The Republic of Ireland will become the first country in the world to sell off its inves...
UK Church Plans to Dump $21 Billion in Fossil Fuels if the Companies Do Not Align to Climate Change Goals by 2023
One of the UK's largest charity fund managers, The Church of England's parliament, has voted 347 to four in favor with three abstaining to sell $21 billion worth of investments in fossil fuels if the companies do not align to climate change goals by 2023. The vote applies to the Ch...
India will Abolish All Single-Use Plastic by 2022, with an Immediate Ban in Delhi
The world’s oceans will be filled with more plastic mass than fish mass by 2050, the World Economic Forum study reported in its 2016 study. Combating plastic waste, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to get rid of all single-use plastic i...
Toyota Sails the World's First Hydrogen-Powered Vessel on a Six-Year Voyage
A few days ago, we talked about hydrogen fuel research vessel was proven to be feasible. See Discussion "Carbon Free Research Vessel is Now Proven to Be Technically and Economically Feasible." Now, there is an even crazier news. The world's first autonomous hydrog...
Carbon Free Research Vessel is Now Proven to Be Technically and Economically Feasible: Team Designs Zero-Emissions Research Vessel
Marine research activities can be carbon free now, thanks to a ship design developed by Sandia National Laboratories. Hydrogen fuel cell technology has existed for decades. Its advantages include zero-emission and zero-noise. Using hydrogen fuel cell in a ship will protect resea...
Majority of Americans Say Climate Change Affects their Local Community, and the Government is Doing Too Little
Almost 60 percent of Americans say climate change is currently affecting their local community. Most Americans say the federal government is doing too little to protect water (69 percent) and air quality (64 percent). Two-thirds of Americans believe the government is doing too ...
A Hyper-Efficient Water Filter to Desalinate Seawater has been Developed, by a Lab at Zhejiang University in China
Researchers Zhe Tan et al.* from Zhejiang University in China have developed a filter that is more than tripling efficient than the currently popular ones on the market. In their paper Polyamide Membranes with Nanoscale Turing Structures for Water Purification, they credited th...
The First Solar Panel Recycling Plant in Europe Opens in France
Veolia Environment S.A., a French transnational water, waste, and energy company, has opened the first recycling plant for solar panels in Europe. Veolia is aiming to build more recycling plants as virtually all French solar panels will reach their end of life in 2018. &nbs...
16 States and Puerto Rico Create Green Banks to Finance, Pushing Renewable Energy On the Way
Previously, we discuss a big green trend is coming: green finance will fund the green transformation. Leading finance organizations such as Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase see unlimited opportunity to fund the sustainability transition, along with the world’s gover...
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