Climate change might be the most significant issue facing the human race going forward, with new studies coming out seemingly every day that claim humans have an ever shortening amount of time on this planet.
Here at Green Building Alliance, spring is data season. While others are watching the world come to life, the GBA office is teeming with blooming…excel sheets. This year, we are proud to announce the results of those calculations.
Please join us as the Pittsburgh 2030 District unveils its 2018 progress during a reception on May 23rd from 4-7pm.
The recption will be held at Riverfront West at 3 Crossings, 2545 Railroad Street, Pittsburgh PA 15222, and there will be a networking happy hour before and after the presentation.
Please register here if you are planning to attend.
The Pittsburgh 2030 District published its fifth annual Progress Report at a reception celebrating years of encouraging and tracking reductions in energy use, water consumption, and transportation emissions, in addition to improving indoor air quality in the built environment.
CPS Energy in San Antonio used demand-response to avoid setting another winter peak record for their territory on January 17, 2018, even as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) hit a new state system record for winter energy demand. CPS Energy offers a number of billing and energy efficiency programs designed to keep costs low and save energy for qualifying customers.
The Stamford 2030 District has officially released their 2016 progress report. Collectively, buildings in Downtown Stamford are actively working to achieve 50% reductions in energy use, water use, and transportation emissions by the year 2030. These dramatic reductions are being accomplished with a lens of resiliency, by improving social and economic outcomes in relation to the environment.
The Pittsburgh 2030 District, a strategic initiative of Green Building Alliance, published its annual Progress Report on Tuesday, celebrating four years of rigorous reductions in energy use, water consumption, and transportation emissions.
Property Partners in the Pittsburgh 2030 District have reduced their aggregated energy and water consumption by 10.7 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively. Transportation emissions for the Downtown boundary, reported in the 2015 Progress Report, were 24.2 percent below baseline, exceeding the 2020 goal.
Portland, Maine — What could an Indonesian volcanic eruption, a 200-year-old climate disaster and a surge in the consumption of mackerel tell us about today’s era of global warming?
Quite a bit, researchers say.
A group of scientists and academics with the University of Massachusetts and other institutions made that assessment while conducting research about a long-ago calamity in New England that was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora half a world away in 1815.
The Pittsburgh 2030 District, a strategic initiative of Green Building Alliance with boundaries in Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland, announced on April 28th in its annual report to local leaders and the business community that the District has met and exceeded all three reduction targets – energy, water, and transportation emissions.
