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Don't Just Click to Share Under the Dome; Watch It!

Whether that Under the Dome documentary goes offline or stays online, it’s still smoggy in Beijing and most other cities in China. Last Saturday, after a brief yet hugely popular online presence, the environmental documentary Under the Dome, was taken…
neoli
March 10, 2015
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A Cup of Fair Trade Coffee, Please

We’ve always thought the only complexities of coffee was in its preparation.  The finest coffee beans had to be chosen, freshly ground, only the purest water, the right temperature and pressure, etc.  There were certain requirements to be carefully met…
neoli
March 6, 2015
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Green Building and Sustainability Stories: February Roundup

Flow-Hive, the Bee-Friendly Way to Collect Honey Father-and-son team Stuart and Cedar Anderson have devised an ingenious way to collecting honey from beehives, with minimal disruption to the bees.  Their invention, the Flow Hive, puts a twist, literally to the bee’s honeycomb structure.…
neoli
February 28, 2015
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Happy and Green: Green Building and Employee Productivity

The equation is simple: green buildings make for happy, healthy, and consequently, productive workers.  At least that’s the hope. When LEED v4 came out, it brought a more reinforced MR (Material + Resources) credit to the scene.  Its potent message…
neoli
February 25, 2015
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Why Sugar Is Bad, Even on Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day, if you truly love your sweetheart, do them a favor and don’t give them milk chocolates.  Or a cake.  Or cookies.  Or any other sweet goodies. As per tradition, Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse for sugar…
neoli
February 13, 2015
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Biomass Energy Requirements to Become Part of Green Building Standard

Very soon, biomass energy  will be included in green building standards. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), USGBC (US Green Building Council), and IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) are jointly developing new biomass requirements for inclusion in green…
neoli
February 10, 2015
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Product Disclosure and the Quest for Transparency

The exact number of McDonald’s French fries recently made the news, because apparently it’s more or less 19.  Whatever the true figure, it’s still a lot to use for what is essentially just fried potatoes.  Then it occurred to us…
neoli
January 26, 2015