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Green School Buildings Health and Performance Benefits Part 2
Green schools are designed to use water efficiently, provide clean air and be well insulated. Green buildings are designed to remain dry, comfortable and quiet. Many green schools have visible features like morewindows to let in natural light, but green schools also have lessvisible features like effective insulation that reduces condensation. By managing excessive moisture [...]
Green School Buildings Health and Performance Benefits Part 1
Whether new or retrofits, green schools are on the increase. Green schoolsprovide a number of advantages. They reduce the environmental footprint, while improving health and learning. Through things like goodventilation and reduced noise, green buildings are able to improve testscores while reducing absenteeism, asthma and allergies. A reporttitled, "Review and Assessment of the Health and [...]
Green Marketing or Green Washing, Part II
This post was written by Jessica Manganello, connect with her @mangojess BOSTON – We left off last month at Enforcement in part 1 of ‘Green Marketing or Green Washing?’. The best part! So if the green guides when applied can be prettystringent and since we can probably agree that most companies, whetheror not unwittingly, violate [...]
Massachusetts SRECs Explained – Part I
Massachusetts joins other stateslike New Jersey , Pennsylvania, and Maryland in creating an SREC marketin 2010. However, what sets the Massachusetts SREC system apart is that it is a market driven system that allows flexibility to react to market conditions. In addition, most of the other states have an SREC system that is based [...]
Milestone: 10 Gigawatts of PV in 2010 (Part 1)
GreentechMedia has written a nice feature about the upcoming autumn milestone of10 gigawatts of solar installed in 2010. They asked me and a handful ofmy fellow solar industry comrades to reflect on the event. Here are mycomments from Part 1, and you can see the full article here. When we started in 1998, 10 gigawatts [...]
The IEA’s Global Solar Roadmap Part 1 – PV
Highlighting plenty of good news for solar on a global scale, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released a photovoltaic solarroadmap [pdf] at the Meditteranean Solar Plan conference in Valencia, Spain. High on the IEA’s agenda: the great potential for global solar toreduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, citing some big numbers. "The combination of solar photovoltaics [...]
Making Solar Panels Part of the Roof
Recently, building products company CertainTeed unveiled a new photovoltaic roofing panel, EnerGen, for residential applications. The EnerGen system features integrated Uni-Solar thin-filmphotovoltaic laminates that seamlessly integrate with traditionalasphalt roofing shingles and provide utility savings for homeowners.The lightweight and flexible design requires no rooftop penetrations,making the system easier for conventional roofing contractors toinstall while maintaining roof [...]
California Solar Series:LA, Part II
In this post, we’re reviewing the solar incentives offered by themunicipal utilities of Vernon, Azusa, Pasadena, Glendale and Burbank.Check out Part One of our LA coverage for details of SCE and LADWP solar rebates and for a review of terms. In order to participate in most rebate programs, the process is usually as follows: find [...]
What IS and IS NOT working in the Clean Energy Industry – Part 1
This is the first video post for The Green Light Distrikt and amreally excited about it, along with a site re-design that will becompleted by the time I return to Boston from Toronto. Last week, Iwent to a local Boston area Green Drinks event. I met some great people, reconnected with others that I haven’t [...]