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		<title>Green Building Institute Announces Green Globes® Update (a/k/a There Is More to Life Than LEED®?)</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/06/18/green-building-institute-announces-green-globes-update-aka-there-is-more-to-life-than-leed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Globes is a green building certification system that evolved from BREEAM (UK building certification system). The Green Building Initiative (GBI), which is responsible for developing Green Globes in the United States, presents it as more affordable and less bureaucratic than LEED (green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council). GBI  recently announced [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1759&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability Ratings:  Is Accreditation the Next Step?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past several years, systems for rating corporate sustainability regimes have burgeoned, and more than 100 ratings, rankings, and indices are now available for use by investors, consumers, and others interested in comparing one company to another based on its sustainability and corporate responsibility program.  The sheer number of approaches and the lack of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1751&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Registration Now Open for Greenbuild 2013</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/06/12/early-registration-now-open-for-greenbuild-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo to be held on November 20-22 in Philadelphia.  Early registration entitles attendees to reduced pricing for the “Greenbuild Nation” conference.  USGBC members can save up to $400 and special reduced pricing is also available for full time students and young professionals (age 25 or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1748&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New PA Court Decision Adds to Case Law on ‘Commencing a Well’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania district court recently held that a gas and oil lease was extended beyond the primary term where the lessee had commenced construction of a well and thereafter began drilling with due diligence, regardless of the fact that no well was actually completed or in production at the time the primary term expired.  Good [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1755&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greenbuild 2013 Is Coming to Philadelphia</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/06/04/greenbuild-2013-is-coming-to-philadelphia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on November 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Greenbuild is presented by the U.S. Green Building Council and is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building.  The conference will feature industry leaders, speakers, educational sessions, LEED™ workshops, tours of Philadelphia’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1743&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Declined in 2011, Ironically Due To A Warmer Winter!</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/06/03/eu-greenhouse-gas-emissions-declined-in-2011-ironically-due-to-a-warmer-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently released 2011 data indicate that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the twenty seven countries in the European Union (EU) decreased  by 3.3 % while EU Gross Domestic Product grew by 1.6 percent, according to official data compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA).  The EU’s total GHG emissions in 2011 were 18.4 percent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1737&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Publishes FAQ Document on Conflict Minerals</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/05/31/sec-publishes-faq-document-on-conflict-minerals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 30, the Securities &#38; Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Frequently Asked Questions document addressing twelve points of uncertainty lingering from publication of the SEC&#8217;s final Conflict Minerals rule in August 2012.  Of the twelve items, the one that had generated the greatest confusion was whether packaging necessary to allow a product to be sold in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1740&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RE-Powering America&#8217;s Land Initiative Publishes Fact Sheet on Financing Renewable Energy Projects</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/05/31/re-powering-americas-land-initiative-publishes-fact-sheet-on-financing-renewable-energy-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EPA&#8217;s RE-Powering America&#8217;s Land Initiative, which seeks to promote the siting of renewable energy projects on previously contaminated brownfield and mining properties, has now developed a fact sheet on financing tools that can help make these deals a reality. The financing fact sheet is the latest resource available on EPA&#8217;s RE-Powering website, which also includes enforcement [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1727&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Rodham Clinton Announced as Keynote Speaker at Greenbuild 2013</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/05/29/hillary-rodham-clinton-announced-as-keynote-speaker-at-greenbuild-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 29, 2013 the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give the opening keynote address at the 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.  This year’s Greenbuild conference will take place November 20-22 in Philadelphia.  Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building.  The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1732&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict Minerals in the Spotlight in Congress and the Courts</title>
		<link>http://sustainability-counsel.com/2013/05/28/conflict-minerals-in-the-spotlight-in-congress-and-the-courts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SEC&#8217;s final conflict minerals rule continues to present challenges for a vast number of businesses that are struggling to comply with its complex supply chain accountability requirements, meant to discourage the exploitation of mineral resources in central Africa that are funding ongoing violence and human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  For [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sustainability-counsel.com&#038;blog=14101882&#038;post=1724&#038;subd=sustainabilitypepper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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