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LEED green building certification

LEED green building certification
Proven performance If you’re serious about saving money, conserving energy, reducing water consumption, improving indoor air quality, making better building material choices, and driving innovation, then LEED is the best choice. Bar none. Third-party certification verifies that your project is designed, built and operating the way it was intended. It is also your first step toward managing your building through its entire lifecycle. Continuous improvement Behind the LEED program is an immense infrastructure developed to support the leaders in the industry as they innovate and create cutting-edge, high performance buildings. Lifetime of returns LEED-certified buildings cost less to operate, reducing energy and water bills by as much as 40%. LEED buildings have faster lease-up rates and may qualify for a host of incentives like tax rebates and zoning allowances. Each LEED-registered project receives access to: LEED Online Customer service Technical customer service is only a phone-call away. Related:  Travel

! Avis d'Expert - Le nouveau champ d'application du registre de suivi des déchets Marie-Pierre Maître, et Elise Merlant, Avocates, cabinet Huglo Lepage & Associés Conseil, reviennent sur le "nouveau" registre de suivi des déchets et notamment sur les types de déchets et catégories d'acteurs visés. Marie-Pierre Maître et Elise MerlantAvocates, cabinet Huglo Lepage & Associés Conseil.Marie-Pierre Maître est Avocate Associée Gérante du cabinet Huglo Lepage & Associés Conseil, Docteur en Droit, Responsable du service Veille & Recherche. Elise Merlant, Avocate au cabinet depuis 2010, intervient dans les domaines du droit de l'environnement tant au niveau communautaire que national. Au même titre que le bordereau de suivi des déchets, le registre chronologique de la production, de l'expédition, de la réception et du traitement de ces déchets (ci-après "registre de suivi des déchets") permet d'assurer la traçabilité des déchets tout au long de leur filière de traitement. Une extension considérable du champ d'application rationae materiae a. b.

Paul Trani | Follow Mouse Movement in Edge Animate <div class="no-js-alert"> Please enable JavaScript to view this website. </div> Follow Mouse Movement in Edge Animate By Paul Trani on March 7, 2013 in Edge Tools w7 k 2 In this video I show a parallax animation (where the forground moves faster than the background). View Project Download source files About the Author Paul TraniView all posts by Paul Trani > Like the real Paul Trani, but on the web. RShare: zTags: Animate, Edge Tools, HTML jPermanent Link Related Articles 7 Comments Włodek March 7, 2013 Reply I was waiting for this tutorial. Leave a reply Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""><abbr title=""><acronym title=""><b><blockquote cite=""><cite><code><del datetime=""><em><i><q cite=""><strike><strong> Search Categories Posts Responsive Design w. About Paul Trani is Senior Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe focusing on helping designers create award-winning work for the web, desktop and mobile devices.

Olympians speak out on climate change as Sochi warms up More than 100 winter Olympians, led by Americans, have signed a petition urging world leaders to fight climate change as balmy weather creates slushy conditions at the Sochi Games. "The once-consistent winters that I saw as a young kid are no more, especially near my home in Vermont," U.S. cross country skier Andrew Newell, 30, says in a statement seeking support. At least 105 Olympians from 10 countries have signed on, including 85 Americans. They're asking countries to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, embrace "clean energy" and prepare for a global agreement at the United Nations' climate convention in Paris next year. While athletes have campaigned for other causes in the past, this is the first Winter Olympics at which they've coalesced on climate change. They each have stories about how rising temperatures are affecting them. In Sochi, where temperatures have soared into the low 60s, a lack of snow has contributed to safety complaints that the halfpipe is too bumpy.

Travelife Welcome to Travelife Travelife is dedicated to making holidays more sustainable. We work with travel businesses around the world to help them improve their social, economic and environmental impacts. Businesses that prove they meet the Travelife sustainability criteria become Travelife certified, helping them easily promote their achievements to others. Travelife comprises 3 main services: Are you a tour operator or travel agent wanting to find out how to become more sustainable? Visit the Tour Operators & Travel Agents website Are you a hotel or accommodation wanting to become more sustainable? Visit the Hotels & Accommodations website Do you want to find sustainable hotels that are Travelife certified? Visit the Travelife Collection website Tour Operators & Travel Agents This part of the business works with travel organisations to help them improve the sustainability of their operations – from energy and water, to staff contracts and working with suppliers.

Déchets diffus spécifiques : publication de la liste de produits chimiques concernés La liste des produits chimiques entrant dans la nouvelle filière à responsabilité élargie des producteurs (REP) pour les déchets diffus spécifiques (DDS), c'est-à-dire les déchets ménagers dangereux, est parue au Journal officiel du 23 août. Il s'agit en particulier des produits biocides et phytopharmaceutiques ménagers, des colles et mastics, des enduits, des peintures et lasures, des solvants, des produits décapeurs de surface ou déboucheurs de canalisations, des acides et alcools ménagers, des extincteurs utilisés par les ménages et des fusées ou feux de détresse des plaisanciers. "Environ 50 000 tonnes de ces déchets sont produits chaque année en France, dont seul un tiers est actuellement collecté séparément. Ces déchets représentent une double menace : sanitaire, pour les professionnels en charge de leur collecte, et environnementale, en matière notamment de pollution des eaux", rappelle le ministère de l'Ecologie.

jQuery.parallax Download git clone github.com/stephband/jparallax Instantiation jQuery( '.parallax-layer' ).parallax( options ); What does jquery.parallax do? jParallax turns nodes into absolutely positioned layers that move in response to the mouse. With a bit of CSS you can either set up windows to see these layers through, or leave them free to roam about. The diagram on the right illustrates what jParallax does to the html: and here's a demonstration with some images: More demos demos/index.html demos/stalkbuttons.html - multiple parallax. demos/remotecontrol.html - parallax by remote control. demos/thumbnails.html - beautiful interactive thumbnails. demos/target.html - demonstrates how smoothly jParallax handles window resizing. Using jParallax The default behaviour of jParallax is to show the whole width of a layer in response to the mouse travelling the whole width of the mouseport. There are various ways to style jParallax effectively. Options Layer Options Events

The open-office backlash continues, but it is a lost cause to hope that the private office is coming back. Complaining about open offices is all the rage these days; Jason Feifer did it in Fast Company and called for "offices for everyone!" I responded with Open offices for all; it is more flexible, adaptable and green. Open offices are more efficient in terms of use of space, more flexible and adaptable. They offer the employee more opportunity to work from home or in teams as required. Bürolandschaft, the first "office landscape"/CC BY 2.0 When Maria Konnikova wrote The open office trap for the New Yorker, dredging up the same studies, Architect and author Lance Hosey jumped into the fray with a great response in Huffington Post. Cutting area also considerably slashes energy and emissions. © Ace Hotel Lobby/ CONTESSANALLY In fact, offices are becoming indistinguishable from the lobby of the Ace Hotel, as all of our communications and file needs shrink into our computer or our smart phone. City of New York/Public Domain

HOME | nezeh.eu Buildings consume 40% of the total energy and emit 36% of greenhouse gases in Europe, therefore represent a high potential for energy savings. Large scale renovations of existing buildings towards Zero Energy are in the forefront of EU and national policies. The European initiative Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH) aimed to accelerate the rate of large scale renovations of existing hotels into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) by: • providing technical advice to committed hoteliers • demonstrating flagship nZEB projects in the European hospitality sector • undertaking training and capacity building activities. neZEH responded to the European Directive on the energy performance of buildings (2010/31/EU, EPBD recast), contributing directly to the EU 2020 and 2050 targets and supporting Member States to their national plans for increasing the number of nZEBs. Learn more about the neZEH activities, tools and results

La nouvelle directive sur les DEEE entre en vigueur A partir de 2019, 85% des déchets électroniques produits devront être collectés séparément dans l'UE. Il s'agit là de l'objectif principal de la nouvelle directive entrée en vigueur le 13 août. La nouvelle directive sur les déchets d'équipements électriques et électroniques (DEEE) est parue le 24 juillet au Journal officiel de l'UE et est entrée en vigueur le 13 août. Elle abroge la directive 2002/96 avec effet différé au 15 février 2014 et prévoit une période transitoire. Les DEEE représentent l'un des flux de déchets à la croissance la plus rapide. Des objectifs de collecte renforcés La directive introduit à partir de 2016 un objectif de collecte de 45% des équipements électroniques vendus. "Certains États membres pourront déroger aux nouveaux objectifs pour une durée limitée, lorsque cela se justifie par un manque d'infrastructure nécessaire ou un faible niveau de consommation d'équipements électroniques", précise toutefois la Commission. Lutte contre les exportations illégales

ThatMatters Live: Martha's Vineyard Thanksgiving - Splash Sustainable Tourism - EUROPARC Federation Sustainable tourism is Good for Parks, Good for People! Our iconic landscapes are often one of the most cited reasons for tourist visits to Europe. Tourism is booming business. It produces almost 5% of the world’s economic turnover, employs around 200 million people globally and is the fastest growing industry. Tourism is also one of the main economic drivers of Europe’s rural economies; directly and indirectly it accounts for around 10% of European GDP and 20 million jobs. Between 2000 and 2010 European countries recorded over 440 million annual international visitor arrivals. EUROPARC has long recognised the need to take care of both the land and the people who live and work there, and often derive their livelihoods from those who come to appreciate these special places. In 1993 EUROPARC published the ground breaking report “Loving them to death”, which called for sustainable tourism in Europe’s Protected Areas. What is the Charter? Becoming a Sustainable Destination – Charter Part I

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