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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

A 2017 study published in Building and Environment estimated there are now about 600 green rating systems globally. But in the past few years, some governments have stepped into this breach by cranking up their sleepy old building codes as a means of driving decarbonization.

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How Can We Decarbonize Labs, Without Compromising Science?

3BL Media

That question is anything but hypothetical in scientific laboratories, which present some of the most daunting challenges to decarbonization. Why labs are so difficult to decarbonize. It opened in 2017, and the excess energy generated will pay back the embodied carbon within its structure within 25 years.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Today he’s the Canada chair of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where he leads a team in empowering the building industry to address an issue it long ignored: the embodied carbon lurking in building materials. Clearly, he chose wisely. He studied science and law to equip himself to defend nature.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Devin Carsdale (formerly Kleinfield-Hayes) (2017). Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).