All Posts Tagged With: "climate change"

Mega-Rich Go Green, Bloomberg’s Global Warming Task Force, MTA’s Green Escalators, & Randall’s Island Green Roof

gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 10, 2008, including developer Joseph Moinian’s 1500-foot-deep geothermal well on Park Avenue, Mayor Bloomberg’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, difficulties as the MTA turns on its new green escalators, the installation of a 7000-square-foot green roof on Randall’s Island, and more green legislation for both New York City and New Jersey.

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17Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued

Passive Survivability: The Terminator as a Green Builder

Alex Wilson, the founder and executive editor of Environmental Building News and president of BuildingGreen Inc. is making the call for a new building standard called “Passive Survivability,” which he calls “a new design criterion that helps preserve crucial life support in the post-Katrina age.” Mr. Wilson spoke at the recent Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Building Energy (”NESEA”) 2008 conference in Boston, where he noted that 94 percent of the oil consumed by the world has been since 1955- the year he was born. “In one lifetime we’ve burned through something that took all of history to create,” he said.

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26Mar2008 | Paul McGinniss | 0 comments | Continued

Green Insurance: Number of Climate Change-Related Products Doubles in 2007

Ceres is a non-profit coalition of investors, environmental groups, and other public interest organizations that works with companies as they negotiate the issues implicated by sustainability and climate change. Last week, it released From Risk to Opportunity: 2007, Insurer Responses to Climate Change, a comprehensive overview of presently available climate change-related insurance products. The report […]

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30Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued