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Posted in Eco-Friendly, Efficiency, Go green, Green, World, government on 21 July 2008
The state of California sure knows what it means to “Go Green”! This time the initiative comes from the California Building Standards Commission. The latter has announced a statewide adoption of “green” building code on Friday 18th of this month.The announcement comes as a happy surprise among Californians, who are the pioneers to adopt such a code for their state in the entire United States of America!
Here’s what the Californian governor said,”By adopting this first-in-the-nation statewide green building code, California is again leading the way to fight climate change and protect the environment.”The Commission found out that in terms of higher carbon footprint the state’s buildings rank next to its transportation.
Posted in Energy on 20 June 2008
To greet the summer at the gates instead of the usual “barbosa” review will propose today a beautiful video. This is the “sneak peek” of the new cycle of conferences good Al Gore made to the “mythical” TED TALKS to March 2008: New thinking on the climate crisis. After the success of an inconvenient truth Al Gore back with a new round of TALKS (which we hope to see soon also in Italy) on climate change and the challenges that humanity will face in the coming years.