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Greenbuild: Designing the Perfect Green People

Green Building Law Update

” My response is that the highlight at Greenbuild was all the ‘green’ building people. And thousands of other green people were there to attend sessions about how the build, grow and monetize green building. It is clear that green building is thriving. billion years of evolution.”

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EPDs are Among the Hottest Topics in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

In the context of green building, EPDs will provide a way describing the environmental impact of a building material or product. And Type II environmental labels specify requirements for self declared environmental claims made by manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers or anyone else likely to benefit from such claims.

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Cub Cadet Names Top Dealer for 2015

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Cub Cadet recently named American Pride Power Equipment in Zanesville, OH, its 2015 National Retailer of the Year.

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Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

Green Building Law Update

In 2015, when vaping is out and Marley Natural Weed is in, the largely unrecognized and surging use of electricity associated with marijuana must be considered. ” Indoor Marijuana Growing Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability green building law growing pot'

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Promoting Electric Vehicles as Environmental Policy or Corporate Welfare

Green Building Law Update

The rebate is 50% of the purchase and installation price capped for residential at $900, commercial at $5,000, and for retail service stations at $7,500. There is little doubt that today, the final day of legislative session, Maryland will change the law to allow Telsa retail stores in Maryland, but is any of this good environmental policy?

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Produced with Genetic Engineering

Green Building Law Update

” On April 27, 2015, Judge Christina Reiss of the U.S. Photo © 2015 Genetic Literacy Project. Only slightly less fun than a Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin Point Counterpoint on Saturday Night Live, is the fight over labeling food produced from a bioengineered organism is being waged in a Federal courtroom in Vermont.

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Stop & Shop Turns Inedible Food Into Energy

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Just in time for Earth Day, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC celebrated the opening of its Green Energy Facility in Freetown, MA on April 15. The Stop & Shop Green Energy Facility is expected to process an average of 95 tons of inedible food per day, an estimated 34,000 tons per year. Source: Stop & Shop/YouTube).

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