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EPA finds pollution that forms smog at oil, gas facilities

By Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News
June 20, 2006

“On a tour of the drilling area in Weld and Adams counties, a group of top EPA officials that included the agency’s lead enforcement official in Washington, D.C., and a team of high-tech EPA investigators based in Lakewood used the infrared camera to see emissions that are normally invisible to the naked eye.”

“Aiming the camera at pipelines, valves and hatches atop storage tanks, the EPA regulators found numerous sources of “fugitive emissions” – those leaking from various areas of the facility – during a two-hour drive-by of the region last week.”

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The number of LEED-certified federal building projects is projected to more than double this year: 821 projects received certification in the first 8 months of 2012 alone, up from 544 projects total in 2011, as reported in the Federal Times…

“This increase in LEED certified federal buildings comes in the midst of a full-fledged attack against the use of LEED from the timber and chemical industries, who have been lobbying against the use of the LEED rating system in federal buildings (see this letter to GSA as an example).”

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…the UniSource Energy corporate headquarters building in downtown Tucson, Arizona, had finally received LEED Gold status, more than nine months after initial occupancy.

“The LEED certification effort showed me once again how easy it is to achieve a Gold certification on a conventional building budget.”

“…the LEED goals did require the project to achieve a projected 24% lower energy use than the ASHRAE 90.1-2007 standard, reduce water use 30% from code levels, install a 100-kW solar thermal system for water heating, and a 150,000-gallon rainwater collection cistern for site irrigation….”

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Two industrial projects in Queensland and New South Wales have raised the bar in green building and construction for warehouses and industrial facilities throughout Australia.

“… the bus depot has been recognised for a number of initiatives, including light-filled offices, breakout areas and workshops, ‘excellent’ passive design and natural ventilation which makes the most of Queensland’s climate.

[also]… on-site water collection, re-use and management strategy that treats storm water through a biofiltration system which then provides most of the depot’s non-potable water demand.”

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MBCI Eco-ficient� Roofing Panels: Can one roofing panel do it all? These can do it all. These metal roofing panels have high R-values, and qualify as continuous insulation where required by the IECC. They are designed to mitigate thermal drift and their R-values are billed as consistent for 20 years. Green roofers can look forward to working with these roofing panels.

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MAD has unveiled plans for a towering village of apartment blocks beside the Huangshan Mountains in eastern China. 

Inspired by the topographical layers of the landscape, the buildings will have organically shaped floor plates and will emerge from amongst the treetops on a site beside the Taiping Lake.

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Kingdom s energy consumption will double by 2030 if hydrocarbon use continues at current levels…

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EcoGeek – Technology for the Environment…

“A grant of $3 million from Google to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) was announced during the annual Greenbuild conference which is taking place in San Francisco this week. …”

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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the launch of the Green Building Information Gateway.

“Users can search and explore green building activity around the world, analyze trends and patterns in green building practice and discover connections between projects, people, products and services. Additional information is available at: GBIG.org . “

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The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy highlights the fragile connection between the natural and built environments.

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