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The days of making the business case for sustainable design, or even explaining what LEED means and why it is important, have passed. Today's green building challenges have moved to more complicated areas of policy — permitting and politics — and the motivating sense of competition to be "the greenest."
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At first glance, the glossy new 35-story condominium tower slicing into the lower Manhattan skyline doesn't stand out as a beacon of sustainable design. Its sleek form — an extruded curving wedge accented with red terra cotta bands — looks more Ferrari than Prius. And the structure's granite base and travertine lobby walls are elements not usually associated with green building.
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More Environment For Wind Turbines Trucks, Trains Pose Hazard — New York Times, 2009.0731All-Electric Commercial Vehicles: Now Available in the U.S. — TriplePundit, 2009.0730 Chile's Fighting Climate Change Is a Role Model for the (Developing) World — Matter Network, 2009.0730 Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, Study Finds — New York Times, 2009.0730 Universities Turn to Kindle - Sometimes to Save Paper — New York Times, 2009.0730 Evaluating Obama's Pledge for Energy Innovation — New York Times, 2009.0730 Californians' Global Warming Fervor Cools — New York Times, 2009.0730 New Jersey Plans Doubling of Solar Power — New York Times, 2009.0730 The Wisdom of Crowds — Nature, 2009.0730 White Roofs Catch on as Energy Cost Cutters — New York Times, 2009.0730 The Nation's First Platinum LEED-Certified Supermarket Opens in Maine — TriplePundit, 2009.0729 McKinsey Report Cites $1.2 Trillion in Potential Savings from Energy Efficiency — New York Times, 2009.0729 A Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions from Deforestation — New York Times, 2009.0729 Financing Model for Home Renewables Spreads — New York Times, 2009.0729 Success Stories in Energy Efficiency — New York Times, 2009.0729 Deforestation Emissions on the Rise — Nature, 2009.0729 Jellyfish Help Mix the World's Oceans — Nature, 2009.0729 Buildings Where Energy Is 'Free' — Reuters, 2009.0728 It’S Rainwater to the Rescue If Fire Sprinkler Is Needed at ‘Green’ Lee’S Summit Middle School — Kansas City Star, 2009.0728 Nissan Offers Sneak Peek at Electric Car — New York Times, 2009.0728 Oregon Eases Ethanol Requirements — New York Times, 2009.0728 U.S. Can Cut Half Its Carbon Emissions from Transportation by 2050, Report Says — New York Times, 2009.0728 A Quest for Batteries to Alter the Energy Equation — New York Times, 2009.0728 Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country — New York Times, 2009.0727 New Study Backs UN Panel on Ocean Rise — Associated Foreign Press, 2009.0726 Why We Need the Climate Bill's Building Code — Reuters, 2009.0726 Making Buildings Good — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0722 A New Branch of Architecture: Grow Your Own Building — Tree Hugger, 2009.0722 Setting the Pace to Create the Greenest Building Ever — Centre Daily Times, 2009.0722 Is the Sun Missing Its Spots? — New York Times, 2009.0721 Demand on the Rise for Green Buildings — Miami Herald, 2009.0719 New Geothermal Heat Extraction Process to Deliver Clean Power Generation — PNNL Press Release, 2009.0718
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