Daily Archives: July 22, 2009

Chipotle Earns the First LEED-Platinum Certification Awarded to a Restaurant

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story at GreenerBuildings. A Chipotle Mexican Grill in Illinois with its own wind turbine and a 2,500-gallon underground water cistern to harvest rainwater was certified by the U.S. Green Building Council at the organization’s highest rating.

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How is the USGBC Like Google?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story at GreenerBuildings. Over the past couple of weeks, the U.S. Green Building Council announced that it is incorporating energy and water usage reporting requirements as a precondition for achieving LEED V3 and Google announced it will debut … Continue reading →

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Collective Biodiesel Conference begins July 31

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. The 2009 Collective Biodiesel Conference, dubbed “the national conference for home brewers,” will be held July 31 through Aug. 2 at American University in Washington, D.C.

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EU biodiesel production grows, UK meets sustainability goals

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. Two reports issued from the United Kingdom’s Renewable Fuels Agency and the European Biodiesel Board this week give a snapshot of the European biofuels industry.

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Methanol Institute releases safety manual

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. The Methanol Institute (MI) today released a Methanol Safe Handling Manual to be shared across the global methanol distribution chain to increase awareness of the chemical and promote safe handing in order to … Continue reading →

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Biodiesel plant to trade in transesterification for hydroprocessing

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. A small biodiesel refinery in Sedgwick, Kan., Healy Biodiesel Inc., has signed a letter of intent with Cetane Energy LLC to license its patent-pending hydroprocessed renewable diesel technology. Cetane Energy operates a standalone … Continue reading →

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Wind could provide 16x U.S. energy demand

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story from Mother Earth News. Many green energy experts have been touting wind power as a potential source of renewable energy sufficiently abundant to meet current energy demand in the United States. But a new report from … Continue reading →

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Inside a small wind-turbine beta test

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story at News.com. Tucked in the back corner of a nondescript office park is an early shoot in the budding green-energy economy–a start-up with big plans for small wind turbines. Last month, I took a detour from … Continue reading →

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Poll: Respondents Not Measuring Carbon Footprint

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Environmental Protection. A new national poll by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute found that just 7.1 percent of all 800 respondents have tried to measure their own personal or household carbon footprint. Of this … Continue reading →

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Yahoo goes green-and wet-in new data center

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Consulting & Specifying Engineer. One of the most well-known landmarks in North America will soon be powering one of the most-visited websites in the world. Internet search engine Yahoo has announced that its newest data … Continue reading →

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