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The Center for Green Schools at the U.S.G.B.C. Launches the Green Classroom Professional Certificate
Washington, D.C. (March 20, 2012) - The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today released the Green Classroom Professional Certificate (GCP). This certificate program provides pre-K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators and parents with the knowledge and skills to support environmentally healthy, resource efficient and sustainable schools and classrooms. The GCP has been officially endorsed by the National Education Association (NEA).
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New and Updated Credits Introduced into LEED Pilot Credit Library
Library provides a proving ground for LEED users to guide the improvement of LEED rating system
Washington, DC - (Mar. 2, 2012) - The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) next update to the LEED green building program, LEED 2012, will include various updates to credits within the LEED Pilot Credit Library. As a flexible, interactive mechanism for testing proposed credits in the marketplace, the Pilot Credit Library gathers real-time feedback on credit usability and ability to meet a credit's intent.
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The Home Depot and U.S. Green Building Council Launch New Database of Green Building Products
(Washington, D.C.) Mar. 7, 2012 - The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), in conjunction with The Home Depot®, has launched an online green home products database. The database: leed.homedepot.com is a special microsite within homedepot.com that features products geared toward green home building, many of which may contribute towards earning LEED® points and prerequisites for the LEED for Homes program, making it easier for homeowners and builders to find the products they need.
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Green Plains' BlendStar to Build New 96-Car Unit Train Terminal
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 10, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:GPRE) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, BlendStar LLC, will build, own and operate a new ethanol unit train terminal in Birmingham, Alabama on the BNSF Railway. The new terminal will have 160,000 barrels of storage, and will receive full 96-car unit trains of ethanol, which can be offloaded within 24 hours. The terminal is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2012 and will be served exclusively by the BNSF Railway.
"We believe Birmingham is a significant growth market, and development of this unit train terminal is a part of our ongoing effort to expand and diversify our business platform along the value chain," said Todd Becker, President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Plains. "With superior services provided by BNSF Railway and BlendStar, operation of this new terminal will provide better transportation economics to shippers, as it will be the eastern most point for direct ship on the railroad to receive ethanol from the Midwest. This will result in improved ethanol distribution through one of the most modern and efficient ethanol terminals in the U.S. when it is completed."
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Giant King Grass Targeted as Fuel for Planned 90 MW Biomass Power Plant in Thailand VIASPACE and Seema Energy Sign MOU and Test Plot Agreement
IRVINE, Calif. and BANGKOK, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a clean energy company growing Giant King™ Grass as a dedicated energy crop, and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VGREF), today announced that the Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Seema Energy Co., Ltd, a renewable energy development company based in Thailand to jointly develop the detailed plan for a Giant King Grass plantation to fuel Seema's proposed 90 MW biomass power plant.
VIASPACE and Seema will initially jointly develop a test plot to optimize cultivation of VIASPACE's proprietary Giant King™ Grass in Thailand. The MOU provides for the supply of seedlings and development of a 2 hectare (5 acre) testing facility to assess and optimize Giant King Grass cultivation under Thai climate conditions. Giant King Grass has already been successfully grown in China.
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