Communities
First-Ever Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program in Florida
Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Infrastructure The Town of Lantana recently approved the first-ever commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program in the state of Florida. A first-of-its-kind, the Florida Green Energy Works Program provides property owners. Read more
Roadway with Recycled Toilets is World's First Official 'Greenroad'
Posted on April, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington to promote sustainable roadway construction, awarded its first official certification to a Bellingham project that incorporates porcelain from recycled toilets. Read more
Green Jail to Demonstrate Power of Microgrids
Posted on March, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) , Infrastructure When the next “big one” hits northern California, chances are good that the power will be knocked out across large swaths of the Bay Area. But one place that is likely to stand unaffected is Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California Read more
Study: Nation’s Urban Forests Losing Ground
Posted on March, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Featured , Land Use National results indicate that tree cover in urban areas of the United States is declining at a rate of about 4 million trees per year, according to a U.S. Forest Service study published recently in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Read more
Integrating Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel
Posted on February, 2012 Categories: Bicycling , Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Public Transit , Transportation How Can Communities Effectively Integrate Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel? The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) has published a free report that identifies best practices and Read more
Students Unite in the Waste Minimization Fight
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Communities , Featured , Recycling , Waste Management For some, the concept of sorting and weighing lunch waste might seem like a sticky, smelly nuisance. Not so for the 200,000 Ontario elementary students that participated in Recycling Council of Ontario's 2011 Waste-Free Lunch Challenge. Read more
Greenspeed, Worlds Fastest Vegetable Oil-Fueled Vehicle
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Biofuels , Check It Out! , Communities , Energy , Featured , Transportation The world’s fastest vegetable oil-fueled vehicle – conceived, built and driven by a team of Boise State University undergraduate students dubbed Greenspeed – will be on display at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C. Read more
Reuse of Municipal Wastewater Has Potential to Increase Future Drinking Water Supplies
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Water Management With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nation's total available water resources, Read more
