The Royal Manor Snags Aurora Award for Most Energy Efficient Home
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Royal Manor, a two-story, 4,147-square-foot, Mediterranean-style custom home won the 2009 Aurora Award for Energy Efficient Home at the Southeast Building Conference (SEBC) in Orlando.
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Orlando Brewing
I don’t know about you, but the business of brewing beer is not what jumps to the top of my mind when I think about the Sustainability movement and industry. Yet there he sat, with that familiar Midwest middle-aged charm, freshly poured beer in hand, educating us how the Orlando Brewery has accomplished notable Sustainability goals in just a few short years.
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U.S. Green Building Council Names Florida’s First Private-Sector LEED Homes Provider
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (Oct. 14) – E3 Building Sciences has become the first private-sector LEED Homes Provider in Florida.
A LEED Homes Provider is responsible for overseeing the certification of a LEED for Homes project. They act as the liaison between the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Raters gathering the LEED documentation, which is necessary to verify the green attributes of both single-family and multi-family residential dwellings.
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USGBC CF LEEDership Dinner
October 14, 2009. At the elegant Church Street Ballroom in downtown Orlando, the U.S. Green Building Council, Central Florida Chapter held its Annual LEEDership Dinner. Well over 360 attendees, political dignitaries, members of the Chapter and their guests enjoyed the celebration of the Chapter’s growth and accomplishments over the past year, recognizing those in our community who are helping to shape green building in Central Florida.
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GreenBuild 2009 and GreenBuild365.org
November 10-13 in Phoenix, AZ
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View details for this event >>Solar panels teach students powerful lesson
Article By Ludmilla Lelis with www.orlandosentinel.com.
Daytona middle school is only one in Central Florida to get FPL solar education station, please click here to view this article.
View details for this event >>New dealership to be 1st with top LEED rating
Article By Michael Laval with www.westorangetimes.com
Just across the Lake County line on State Road 50, the Southeast’s first LEED Platinum-rated auto dealership is being built from the ground up.
Headquarter Honda, billed as a state-of-the-art, green sales and service facility, is scheduled to open in March. In its pursuit of achieving the top-level LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, Headquarter Honda’s construction
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Stetson carbon audit earns recognition
Article from Orlando Business Journal
Stetson University was one of 165 colleges and universities nationwide recognized Nov. 18 by the National Wildlife Federation for its climate change and sustainability initiatives.
Stetson specifically was cited for a carbon audit conducted by students that inventoried campus greenhouse gases.
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Energy Push Spurs Shift in U.S. Science – Funding Increased by 18%
ENERGY PUSH SPURS SHIFT IN U.S. SCIENCE: The Obama administration’s push to solve the nation’s energy problems, a massive federal program that rivals the Manhattan Project, is spurring a once-in-a-generation shift in U.S. science. The government’s multibillion-dollar push into energy research is reinvigorating 17 giant U.S.-funded research facilities, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory here to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
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U.S. Commits to Substantial Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Pollution Over the Next Decade
Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein and Julie Pace in Washington, and Jan Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade — despite resistance in Congress over higher costs — when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
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