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• Philadelphias Comcast Center is the tallest LEED certified building in the US

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  Speculations are speculations anyway. Until they go functional, you simply cannot count on them. While Taipei 101 was being anticipated to be the world’s tallest green building, Philadelphia’s Comcast Center has emerged to the fore to take home that laurel. Though it’s not the world’s tallest, it still earned ...
  15 hours ago

• The Uncomplicated Modern Green Home that Stole LEED Silver certification

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  Someone once rightly said, “Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty” and to prove this fact time and again, architects at Maryann Thompson created this beautiful zero impact home that is not just down-to-earth, but would surely bring its residents the contentment of environmental ...
  21 hours ago

• PSEG, MARS Celebrate Solar Garden

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 130
  MARS and PSEG Celebrate New 2 MW Solar Panel Array What’s better than solar power? Chocolate. How do we compensate for this sad reality? By putting a 2 MW solar panel array next to the Mars Chocolate North America headquarters. Today, New Jersey utility PSEG joined Mars officials (including advertising’s ...
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• Can Green Building Regulations Keep Up?

  
  Green Building Law Update — Authority: 410
  The Energy Star program, responsible for certifying energy efficient products, is about to undergo some major changes. Recently, the program, run by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), has come under fire from a number of groups: "Various stakeholder groups, such as ...
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• Post Occupancy Results of LEED Buildings in Illinois

  
  Facility Blog — Authority: 132
  The Regional Green Building Case Study Project: a Post-Occupancy Study of LEED Projects in Illinois report summarizes the first year of a multi-year study to analyze the post-occupancy benefits of 25 LEED certified projects in Illinois. by HeidiTFM
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• Marvimon and SmogShoppe: Refurbished Event Spaces Merge Style and Sustainability

  
  Your Daily Thread — Authority: 473
  Miguel Nelson and Sherry Walsh are the eclectic, environmental visionaries responsible for the reconstruction and redesign of two of L.A.’s greenest event spaces, Marvimon House and SmogShoppe. Both are indoor and outdoor fortresses lusciously filled with native vegetation and vintage decadence where people ...
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• Green Business Idea - Green Janitor

  
  Green Business — Authority: 114
  One of our goals here at Green Business is to offer ideas to our readers to help them start their own green business.  Another excellent example of a green business is a green janitorial service, maybe even cleaning LEED certified buildings. These green business owners and workers use environmentally friendly ...
  2 days ago

• LEED Green Associate

  
  Degree Space — Authority: 126
  Earlier this summer GBCI rolled out a revamped standard for LEED professionals. Up until this point all LEED Accredited Professionals (AP) took a single test to get their AP designation. The new system has introduced three tiers expertise. The first tier is Leed Green Associate . The second tier is LEED AP+, and the ...
  2 days ago

• Triad Expert Answers the Question: Why is Indoor Air Quality Important

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  “Clean Air means higher Occupancy Productivity and Bigger Returns for Building Owners and Fewer Legal Issues…”
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• Facebook Grabs for Greener Data Centers

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 659
  Facebook’s 300 million users, logging 8 billion minutes per day on the site , leave the social network with a massive — and growing — appetite for data center real estate, and energy bills to match. According to Richard Miller at Data Center Knowledge, Facebook has just leased more data center space at ...
  3 days ago

• Verne Global – Iceland’s Green Data Center

  
  ArcticStartup — Authority: 557
  From Google over Apple to the Start-up next door, nearly every company today uses web hosting services or has huge server farms at their disposal so that their services can run smoothly. That much of this energy to run these data centers comes from fossil fuels or even nuclear energy is probably known, but ignored. ...
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• New green landscape rating system unveiled

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 558
  A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nations first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without ...
  5 days ago

• McKesson to Save $300K Via Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  McKesson Corp. continues to gain a better understanding of its emissions, energy consumption and water consumption companywide. In the firm’s 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report, the company tracked energy consumption and CO2 emissions at 49 facilities, representing 64 percent of its U.S. real estate footprint, ...
  5 days ago

• Electrical wiring considerations in a LEED project

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 127
  If you’re building a green home, there’s one subcontractor that is going to have a harder time adopting green building methods than the others, and that is your electrician. Why you may ask? These guys are generally old school, the young guys who work for them, they learned the old school way. That means wires ...
  5 days ago

• Sustainable Sites Guidelines & Benchmarks – Launched

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  As WLA reported recently – today is the launch of Guidelines &  Performance Benchmarks of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. You can download the 233 page report from the Sustainable Sites website . Today is also the opening of the Call for Pilot Projects to test various aspects of the Sustainable Sites ...
  5 days ago

• Watch building of prefab, ultra-green house live on the Web

  
  Green OC — Authority: 516
  A builder hoping to be the first in Orange County to construct the ultimate “green” home will erect the structure in a matter of hours Thursday morning, live on the Web. The building of the prefabricated, two-story house begins in Newport Beach about 9 a.m. and should be finished by about 11 a.m. View it ...
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• Highland Park affordable housing development earns LEED for Homes Gold

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 129
  11 attached townhomes in Highland Park received their LEED Gold certifications. The ambitious project, known as Hyacinth Place, is a fantastic example of how LEED Homes can be accessible and do not have to be expensive. The attached single-family townhomes were built with affordability in mind, targeted towards ...
  6 days ago

• New Study: Green Buildings Lead to Increased Productivity

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By A Siegel, Author of the Get Energy Smart! NOW! blog. All too often, those engaged in examining options for "greening" a new or existing building are constrained in a stove-piped cost analysis which (in a very simplified fashion) goes something along these lines: How much more will it cost to build? And, how fast ...
  6 days ago

• Taipei 101 Aims To Be Worlds Tallest Green Building

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 477
  Taiwans landmark building, Taipei 101, will undergo an 18-month energy renovation to become the worlds tallest green building.It is learned that Taipei Financial Center Corporation, the owner of Taipei 101, will apply for Leadership in Energy and Environment Design certification for the building. The company will also ...
  1 week ago

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