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Kansas City achieves LEED Gold with LEED for Cities

Greenability Magazine

We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” The certification helps jurisdictions achieve high performance in critical human and environmental health areas. Cimarron Bend III, the wind resource, accounts for 20% of the city’s electricity usage.

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Try these 7 ideas for a greener New Year

Greenability Magazine

For many, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted priorities to family, health and home. Save money with a home-energy audit. Getting a home energy audit will show you where your house is leaking energy and provide recommendations for the improvements with the biggest paybacks. Reduce water usage.

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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. The kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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The unexpected arboretum: CSUSM benefits from sustainable approach to water and environmental management

Green Technology

The Sustainability Masterplan is explicit: “By investing in energy-efficient/high-performance buildings, water conservation efforts, and reduction in waste levels, we are also reducing and/or maintaining our utility spending even as we continue to grow.” CSUSM is big on civic responsibility, and it’s not just talk.

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Kansas City’s new airport terminal celebrates sustainability in a big way

Greenability Magazine

The project met sustainability benchmarks for energy efficiency, water conservation, material selection, waste reduction, and more to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) certification. “The Electric Vehicles KCI is now the first U.S. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging.

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Building homes that fight against climate change

AGreenLiving

As such, it’s time to get serious about where and how we build our homes to keep our families safe while also lessening our impact on the planet. Building for resilience With hurricanes intensifying around the world, resilient design is becoming more and more important as the climate crisis worsens.

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Comment: Water in the US – a decade of turbulence

Envirotec Magazine

While advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) technology had been fully deployed in the power and gas industries, water was just beginning to look into its adoption. In 2010, the EPA launched a comprehensive health review of chromium-6 and from 2013 to 2015, the Agency required larger water utilities in the US to test for chromium-6.