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Posts from September 2011
Empire State Building Achieves LEED Gold
Craig Bloomfield, Jones Lang LaSalle
312-228-2774, craig.bloomfield@am.jll.com
Empire State Building Company, Jones Lang LaSalle and U.S. Green Building Council announce milestone achievement for World’s Most Famous Office Building
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Building Materials & Resources in the LEED 2012 Draft to Focus on Life Cycle Analysis and More Transparent Product Information
Washington, D.C. (September 13, 2011) – The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) next update to the LEED green building program, coined LEED 2012, will include updates to the Materials & Resources (MR) credit category. The updates reflect thousands of write-in comments received through the first LEED public comment period and include changes to existing LEED credit categories as well as two new credit categories, Integrated Process (IP) and Performance (PF).
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Rep. Ben Chandler Speaks on the Importance of Green Schools
Last week, Kentucky’s Rosa Parks Elementary was recognized for earning Energy Star certification, and reducing their energy usage by 47 percent with no additional cost to the school. In attendance was Rep.
Game Changer: Greenbuild in Canada
As October draws near and final preparations are underway, I wish to speak on behalf of the CaGBC to express our pride in hosting Greenbuild 2011. It’s actually quite fitting that the first Greenbuild outside of the United States be held in Canada beca…
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USGBC Lends Support to get PACE Programs Moving
USGBC has thrown its support behind the latest legislation effort to revive Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE.
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Senate Panel Signals Support for Commercial Building Energy Survey
On Wednesday there was a good sign coming out of the Senate Appropriations Committee for the continued efforts to restart the Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), the national survey that gathers statistical energy information on U.S….
The President, the Packers, and Winning One for the American People
I found myself sitting at the kitchen table last night, long after the President and the Packers were done.
The Packers won. What was keeping me up was the thought that the country might actually be able to pull our own victory out of what has been inc…
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President Obama Announces $25 Billion For Improving Schools
Last night, President Obama made a monumental announcement – his proposed American Jobs Act will provide $25 billion for school construction and modernize over 35,000 school buildings. If this bill is passed, it would not only put thousands of teachers back to work, it would allow us to make desperately needed improvements in schools across the country, including energy-efficiency upgrades and comprehensive, green retrofits.
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Kicking Off the School Year: Greening Sacramento City Unified School Districts
With the school year just beginning, students are excited about bringing green practices to their schools. One of the main projects that I will be working on during my with Sacramento City Unified Schools Districts is their “Project Green” initiative.