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LEED Construction: Building a Brighter Future [1]

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This Construction Management Project article offers information on green construction practices, including Green Building Benefits, LEED and Green Construction, Green Construction Resources, LEED Certification in America and Worldwide, and several links for further reading.

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National Weather Service [6]

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For weather warnings, check the interactive, near-real-time national weather map [7] put out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. It's updated every few minutes with color-coded warnings by type. You can also search for a forecast by state, city/state or zip code.

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SEJ Member Spotlight: Andrew Revkin [12]

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SEJ member, reporter and author Andrew Revkin is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and writes the award-winning Dot Earth blog for the Op-Ed side of The New York Times.

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Antarctica & Arctic [13]
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Water & Oceans [16]
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Forests [18]
Fish & Fisheries [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Climate Change [5]
Biodiversity [21]
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SEJ Member Spotlight: Edward Humes [22]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Edward Humes started his writing career in newspaper reporting, then moved to nonfiction books. Humes is currently updating his latest book, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash, researching his next environmentally themed book, and finishing a magazine article on the 80+ communities in California that are considering or have adopted bans on plastic grocery bags.

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Pollution [23]
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QuestionPoint [25]

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This live online reference service allows you to chat with a librarian any time of day or night. You are provided with a transcript and outgoing links, as well as follow up, referral, and one-stop reporting tools for all types of reference services.

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SEJ Member Spotlight: Meera Subramanian [28]

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Independent journalist Meera Subramanian writes about culture and the environment with a focus on species conservation for national and international publications. Her work has appeared in Nature, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion and elsewhere. She was awarded SEJ’s 2012 Outstanding Feature Story award for her Virginia Quarterly Review piece about the collapse of India’s vulture population.

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SEJ Member Spotlight: John Platt [29]

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Freelance journalist John Platt writes about endangered species on all seven continents, conservation, climate change, trophy hunting, the illegal wildlife trade and more for a wide variety of publications. His blog, Extinction Countdown, has been published by Scientific American since 2009.

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SEJ Member Spotlight: Melissa Gaskill [30]

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An independent journalist for 18 years, Melissa Gaskill specializes in science, nature, and travel, primarily the outdoor or sustainable type. She's also the author of Best Hikes with Dogs: Texas Hill Country and Gulf Coast and recently was a 2012 Fellow at the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment and Science in Florida.

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Science [31]
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SEJ Member Spotlight: Paula Crossfield [32]

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New SEJ member Paula Crossfield is a founder and managing editor of the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN), the first and only independent, nonprofit news organization that produces investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, agriculture, and environmental health. She is also a founder of Civil Eats, a national news site on sustainable food issues.

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Food [33]
Environmental Health [34]
Agriculture [35]
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SEJ Member Spotlight: Silver Donald Cameron [36]

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Congratulations to Canadian SEJ member Silver Donald Cameron, host and executive producer of The Green Interview, who was appointed last week to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor, for his work as a "journalist, writer, educator and community activist." Cameron has been a columnist, an educator at several universities, and written plays, radio and TV scripts, innumerable magazine articles, and 17 books.

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Canada [37]
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