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March 11th, 2011
Rep. Joe Barton’s last bright idea – to apologize to BP for having to make reparations for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – earned him national ridicule.
His pandering may not have misfired (much) in the conservative-leaning Texas district he represents, but it was a rude affront to those who earn a living on the gulf, and anyone who cares about the workers and wildlife there.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton
Now, less than a year later, Barton again appears to have his finger on the pulse of the mean-spirited minority.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, CFL light bulbs, Cree Lighting, Electricity, energy consumption, energy savings, Energy Star, EPA, greenrightnow.com, incandescent light bulbs, Joe Barton, LED lights, light bulb law, light bulb mandate, low-mercury CFLs, Marsha Blackburn, NRDC, Philips, Steve Burgess, Sylvania
March 9th, 2010
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
When Ric Richards recently acquired an aging McDonalds in Cary, N.C., he knew the place needed an overhaul. The 25-year-old store was fraying at the edges.
LED lighting at Cary McDonalds
Richards decided to give these particular golden arches a green touch.
Once he’d decided that the building needed replacing, the decision to go eco-friendly was not difficult. Richards knew it made sense from a business standpoint – it would cut energy costs dramatically – and he figured it would resonate with the educated customers living in the Research Triangle region, especially those interested in lower-carbon living.
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Tags: · Cary, Cree Lighting, electric car chargers, green building, hydronic heating and cooling, LED lights, McDonalds, North Carolina, recycled materials, renewable materials, Research Triangle, sky lighting, sustainability
November 13th, 2009
By Kate Nolan
Green Right Now
When Greenbuild Expo 2009 landed in Phoenix Nov. 9 with 30,000 participants, the circus came to town for Mick Dalrymple. He runs a.k.a. Green Building Supply http://akagreen.com , the Phoenix area’s first store of its kind.
Dalrymple also sits on the national board of the U.S. Green Building Council, the organizer of Greenbuild Expo (www.greenbuildexpo.org), which this year–its eighth–has packed 1,800 exhibitors into the recently expanded Phoenix Convention Center.
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Tags: · Buildingease, Cree Lighting, Ecolabelling, Expanko, green flooring, green household improvements, green lighting, Green Seal, Greenbuild 2009, GreenKonnect, Mick Dalrymple, Phoenix, Phoenix Convention Center, RAB Lighting, Smith & Fong Plyboo, Sustainable Flooring, Teragren Flooring, U.S. Green Building Council
June 17th, 2009
By Diane Porter
Green Right Now
Deb Lovig’s official title at Cree, the lighting and semiconductor company, is “LED Programs Evangelist.” The description fits. Ask her to pick a favorite project and she’ll name five before you get
her stopped. She’ll skip from North Carolina State’s dorm lighting project (see picture, right) to the University of California-Davis’ smart parking garage to Notre Dame’s beautiful acorn-shaped fixtures without taking a breath.
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Tags: · Cree Lighting, General Electric, LEDs, light-emitting diodes, Madison Area Technical College, Marquette University, North Carolina State University, Notre Dame University, Philips, Sylvania, Tianjin Polytechnic University, universities, University of Alaska, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of California-Davis, University of Miami
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