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A Home Buyer’s Guide to Green Homes

The Environmental Blog

If you’re in the market for a new home and conscious of being environmentally friendly, you may consider looking specifically for a green home. Green homes are designed to be sustainable through their energy usage, building materials, or both. But how do you know whether a home is considered to be green?

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER. RECYCLED STEEL.

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6 ways to save energy while sheltering in place

AGreenLiving

Now that millions of Americans are isolated in their homes, everyone is using more energy during off-peak hours. Americans are getting more concerned with paying their growing electricity bills. Inhabitat has rounded up some tips and tricks to help readers save energy (and money) at home during this time.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

Green Technology

This 10-story, LEED Platinum-certified, Net-Zero Energy and Carbon building provides a transitional home for California’s Legislature and Executive Branch and facilitates public access to legislative hearings.

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The Olympics of Geothermal – WGC 2023 experience of African participants

ThinkGeoEnergy

Geothermal energy is one of the more important baseload elements for achieving carbon emission peaking and carbon neutrality. Seeing geothermal energy become a part of China’s energy mix was a priceless experience. It is China’s most populous province, with over 100 million residents and a home to the Yellow River.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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