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California City’s Green Building Ordinance Applies to Commercial Buildings

Posted by Environmental Leader on 20/11/2009

New commercial buildings in San Mateo, Calif., will have to be constructed to minimum environmental standards now that a previously voluntary green building ordinance has become mandatory.The new standards take effect Jan. 1, reports the San Jose Mercury News. They had been voluntary for more tha ...

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Whirlpool Cuts Water Use by Nearly 22% from 2004 to 2008

Posted by Environmental Leader on 20/11/2009

Whirlpool Corp. is on track to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 6.6 percent by 2012, according to the company’s first global sustainability report. The company also cut water use by 21.5 percent and overall waste generated per unit decreased by nearly 4 percent from 2004 to 2008. T ...

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S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks

Posted by Environmental Leader on 20/11/2009

People in South America view a global climate deal as having more urgency than people in other parts of the world.About 99 percent of South Americans surveyed by World Wide Views on Global Warming.That compares to about 93 percent of those in Europe, 92 percent of those Oceana, 91 percent of thos ...

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Kenya: Inventor of the World Wide Web lands in Kenya

Posted by Ndesanjo Macha on 20/11/2009

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in Kenya: “Credited with inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), Sir Tim Berners- Lee is in town and was today at the Strathmore University for an Interactive IT education session for IT professionals, students and innovators.”

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Best of best from this years best green competitions

Posted by AditiJ on 20/11/2009

Its the best time to take a look back at the best of the best things that happened this year. A number of green competitions were held this year and a number of entries managed to make an impression. Designers and companies from around the world...

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