Alex Salmond in his 2010 New Year message highlighted the importance of sustainable development and renewable energy in Scotland and the required increase in powers of the Scottish Parliament needed to help harness Scotland’s green energy potential and therefore take full advantage of the “renewable revolution”. Earlier in December 2009, he campaigned for climate change [...]
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* 1993 Architecture and Energy Award for the Natural Resources Building in Olympia, Washington. * About half of the firm’s design professionals are LEED accredited. * More than 60% of Fentress’ projects under construction or completed in 2009 were LEED certified or pending certification. * 2003 LEED Gold 2.0 award for California’s Department of Education [...]
The Sierra Club has official policies on many conservation issues. They group these into 17 categories: agriculture, biotechnology, energy, environmental justice, forest and wilderness management, global issues, government and political issues, land management, military issues, nuclear issues, oceans, pollution and waste management, precautionary principle, transportation, urban and land use policies, water resources, and wildlife conservation. [...]
British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) is a not-for-profit member-funded trade association in British Columbia, Canada, which promotes the technology industry in the province. The technology industry in BC has been growing steadily since the late 1990s and constituted 5.9% of British Columbia’s economic output in 2007. The BCTIA has a membership base of over [...]
There are many ways to define a green library, but there are a number of central themes that run through all of them, including, minimizing the negative impact the building will have on the local environment, and if possible having a positive impact. Reducing the use of water and energy by designing in a way [...]
EDF Energy has sponsored several ITV shows, including ”Soapstar Superstar” and ”City Lights” starring Robson Green. It also sponsored coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany (shared with Budweiser). Since 2005, EDF Energy has been the main sponsor of the EDF Energy Cup – the Rugby Union domestic cup for the 12 English Premiership [...]
In Switzerland there have been many referenda on the topic of nuclear energy, beginning in 1979 with a citizens’ initiative for nuclear safety, which was rejected. In 1984, there was a vote on an initiative “for a future without further nuclear power stations” with the result being a 55 to 45% vote against. On September [...]
* 2008 – Black Mountain Ranch received a Green Development of the Year Award from National Association of Home Builders * 2007 – Del Sur Property was named the winner of Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger’s Environmental and Economic Leadership award in San Diego, California * 2007 – Ranch House at Del Sur received San Diego’s first [...]
Ongoing debate The popularity of such marketing approach and its effectiveness is hotly debated. Supporters claim that environmental appeals are actually growing in number–the Energy Star label, for example, now appears on 11,000 different companies’ models in 38 product categories, from washing machines and light bulbs to skyscrapers and homes. However, despite the growth in [...]
Fairfield Materials Management was founded in 2003 by a small group of ecological activists, horticulturists and social entrepreneurs. Fairfield Materials Management was initiated by Val Rawlinson (Director) after she became involved in an East Manchester anti-incineration campaign in 1996. The incinerator was not built, but the campaigners realised that they had to show Manchester that [...]
The following differences to the non-interacting Fermi gas arise: Energy The energy of a many-particle state is not simply a sum of the single-particle energies of all occupied states. Instead, the change in energy for a given change delta n_k in occupation of states k contains terms both linear and quadratic in delta n_k (for [...]
In 1999 the Future Energy national certification scheme for green electricity was launched, however it was closed in 2002, apparently because too few suppliers were prepared to accept the proposed revised requirements. In the absence of a replacement national scheme in the UK, the international Eugene Network, whose main purpose is to give accreditation to [...]
Jong Groen organizes actions and runs campaigns on a wide range of issues: a CO2-energy tax, open source software in schools, animal rights, green energy, public transport, education, employment, etc. Also, its working groups try to look at most of these issues from the vantage point of young people and try to formulate new ideas. [...]
Centennial Research Facility The most advanced large-scale addition to the FPL in over 70 years is the new Centennial Research Facility (CRF), a 87,000-square-foot multi-use laboratory. This facility was built to meet qualifications for Silver certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. As [...]
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