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“Over the last few months, our Energy Innovation Series has featured companies and organizations that are working on various energy generation, management and efficiency issues. But there are other innovations that extend far beyond what most of us conceptualize as energy.”

“The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the largest community college system in the country, serving more than 250,000 students on more than 10 sites around the region.  …”

“This isn’t a simple renovation,” said architect and e7 director Michael Rendler. “It’s a re-imagining of how these campuses function and how their pieces interact. … Being able to visually move through a design allows us to find new opportunities for energy efficiency and understand how our design choices impact usability and environmental performance.”

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Two-thirds of small businesses surveyed reported they spend more time on social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, they they did a year ago, but a third of executives in charge of the firms said they would rather focus their time on…

“Ninety per cent of respondents said they were active on Facebook, 70% were on Twitter, half were on LinkedIn, 32% were on Google+ and 29% were on Pinterest, Vertical Response stated in a press release.”

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The Nanaimo Regional District aims to promote rainwater harvesting with a free guide on the subject…

“The spectrum ranges from lawn irrigation to car washing, to indoor uses like toilet flushing. More comprehensive systems would provide an entire household’s needs, including drinking water.”

“With limited groundwater resources, particularly in the summer, rainwater capturing is a plus for the environment, and increases residents’ self sufficiency, slows down or eliminates storm water runoff and reduces energy consumption when compared to wells, Midgley said.”

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Twitter has changed the way it responds to DMCA copyright notices. Rather than removing tweets, it is “withdrawing” them instead. This helps show when and why tweets go missing, and also brings new transparency to the DMCA process.

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The Mayo Clinic believes strongly that social media has a place in medicine; it’s been podcasting since 2005, hopped onto platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter as they came online, and even went so far as to create its own Center for Social…

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A new dialogue is emerging around the idea of resilience: how to help vulnerable people, organizations and systems persist, perhaps even thrive, amid unforeseeable disruptions.

Opinion article demanding tougher building standards in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.  I would say that resiliency is a necessary component of sustainable construction.  However, existing building codes and standards may require improvement to answer these charges, not only Sustainable buildings.  Duane Tilden

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In this age of digital photography, a picture can be transformed a thousand ways, made to look like a Polaroid snapshot or an antique image, given a moody or…

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The European Union put down the last piece of the bloc’s 2020 climate and energy policy puzzle by adopting an Energy Efficiency Directive. The directive is a game-changer for energy companies, which are now required to achieve 1.5% energy…

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/PRNewswire/ — The Green Grid, the global authority on resource efficient information technology and data centers, today announced that Mark Schiller has been named executive director, effective November 2, 2012.

“About The Green Grid

The Green Grid is a global consortium of companies, government agencies, educational institutions and individuals dedicated to advancing resource efficiency in information technology and data centers with a holistic approach, including all IT, facility and infrastructure systems. …. As the global authority on resource efficient information technology and data centers, The Green Grid spans the entire computing and communications ecosystem – from data centers to personal computers – and will continue to provide the global IT industry with metrics, tools and best practices to improve resource efficiency.”

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Green building and energy efficiency retrofits of affordable housing not only help struggling families find decent places to live, but also help create more jobs for the economy than traditional building methods.

” Greening Buildings and Communities: The Costs and Benefits, Greg Kats, President of Capital – E, a national clean energy advisory and venture capital firm, writes that “green building increases employment by shifting resources from energy spending toward design and construction, efficiency, renewable energy and recycling.” Kats also states that eight to 12 additional jobs are directly or indirectly generated from green construction; recycling construction was can create more jobs per ton than landfill disposal or incineration of the material. “

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