By Sue Major Holmes, Associated Press – Feb. 20, 2009 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The rapid whop, whop, whop of a wind turbine outside the New Mexico National Guard headquarters hints at a new mission for the homefront military: Going green. Efforts nationally since 2001 to conserve energy and fuel also include a solar [...]
Market Watch NEW YORK, Feb 20, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Turner Construction Company, the nation’s leading builder of “green buildings,” completed more than $3 billion of green construction projects during 2008. In addition, the firm’s sustainable construction work has grown to 40% of its backlog. Turner’s green building projects are in wide array of [...]
WKYC-TV – Feb. 19, 2009 AKRON — For decades it was a plain ranch house inside the Metro Parks, but today it’s being hailed as a model for energy conservation and more. The Ranger and Natural Resource Management building that the Metro Parks Serving Summit County renovated two years ago has been noted as a [...]
By Everdeen Mason, The Lantern – Feb. 18, 2009 The destruction of Lord and Brown Halls has left parts of campus a mixture of rusty fencing, dust, bricks and construction equipment. But Ohio State has been trying to reduce the debris to comply with the interim Green Build and Energy Policy and to keep students [...]
By Bob Downing, Akron Beacon Journal – Feb. 16, 2009 Summit County is home of the greenest or most environmentally friendly building in Ohio. Metro Parks, Serving Summit County announced Monday that its ranger/natural resources building has won top honors from the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington, D.C. The renovated building near the Akron-Fairlawn [...]
From the Kossuth Green blog: “Located on a large corner lot at East Kossuth Street and South Washington Avenue in Schumacher Place (just East of German Village), Kossuth Green implements sustainable design with urban living and will be among the first of it’s level of Green Design in Columbus, OH. With consideration to property assessment, [...]
Port Clinton News Herald – Feb. 13, 2009 FREMONT — Proposals totaling more than $1,626,918 in funds to provide additional job training to young adults as well as to assist with homelessness prevention gained the WSOS’ Board of Directors’ approval at its February meeting on Tuesday. A proposal for $714,000 will be submitted to The [...]
AEP Ohio News Release – Feb. 10, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 10, 2009 – AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), has signed a power purchase agreement for renewable wind energy totaling 100 megawatts (MW). AEP Ohio will purchase its energy from a wind farm in Benton County, Ind., that is being [...]
PUBLIC LIQUIDATION SALE!! Columbus City Center 111 S. 3rd Street Columbus, Ohio 43215 February 10-28, 2009 Times TBA Sad but true after many years of serving the community the Columbus Dountown City Center Mall is closing their doors ”Forever” !!!!! This is an opportunity for the public to purchase many catagories of inventory and Pay your [...]
By Tom Henry, The Toledo Blade – Feb. 8, 2009 Suddenly, Monroe County has high hopes for wind power. First was the announcement last week that Great Lakes Towers LLC, a start-up headed by three primary investors, plans to construct a $19 million factory on 38 acres of Port of Monroe land to build giant [...]