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  • CCN saves 2.2 million kWh in fourth year!

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    6 May 2014
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    More than 265,000 students at 109 colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada participated in Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) 2014, competing to reduce their energy and water use on campus. Collectively, they saved over 2.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity — equivalent to averting 3million pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere or taking 201 homes off the grid for a year. Students also saved nearly 476,000 gallons of water, or the equivalent of 1.8 million water bottles. With energy and water combined, CCN saved schools an estimate total of $198,000.

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  • Webinar: Health, wellbeing and productivity in office buildings

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    6 May 2014
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    Green, healthy and productive office buildings: measuring the benefits and sharing best practice

    This major WorldGBC project is underway, and we want to hear from GBCs and their members, all around the world. Join us for an interactive webinar led by people directly involved in its development. 

    You’ll hear about the preliminary findings from our research into best practice in designing and operating healthy buildings globally, and have a chance to share your views on this important topic.

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  • Outstanding projects around the world

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    5 May 2014
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    LEED projects can be found in over 140 countries and territories around the world and on six out of seven continents — there are no LEED projects in Antarctica, but you never know what the future holds. 

    East Asia

    Haworth Showroom in the Parkview Green (Beijing, China), the first project in the world to certify under LEED v4, the latest version of LEED

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  • Top 10 countries for LEED

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    5 May 2014
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    LEED projects can be found in over 140 countries and territories around the world and on six out of seven continents — there are no LEED projects in Antarctica, but you never know what the future holds.

    To provide a better view of LEED’s impact globally, we’ve ranked the top 10 countries for LEED outside of the U.S.. Looking at the gross square meters of certified space around the globe, we came up with the list below.

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  • National College Competition Saves 3 Million Pounds of CO2 and 476,000 Gallons of Water

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    Student Behavior Changes Make Big Impact During Campus Conservation Nationals 2014

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  • Mexico’s green building boom in photos

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    Photo credit: Flickr user Paul Stein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/kapkap/)

    Happy Cinco de Mayo! It may not be the real Mexican Independence Day (that’s Sept. 16), but it’s still a great opportunity to take a look at the LEED green building activity taking place in our neighbor to the south.

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  • Maturing the market one EPD at a time

    Published on: 
    2 May 2014

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    Over the past decade, building industry professionals have worked to transform our industry — minimizing the negative impacts and maximizing the positive impacts associated with buildings. USGBC’s launch of LEED v4 in November 2013 marked the next step in the transformation journey the buildings industry has been engaged in since the inaugural version of LEED was released in 2000.

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  • GSA announces its award-winning green building projects

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    2 May 2014
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    After several days of nonstop cold rain here in the District, it was nice to see the sun shining again on the first day of May. But it was even nicer that day to hear about all the award-winning building projects honored by the General Services Administration (GSA) as part of its Design Awards ceremony.

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  • Good to know: Green building incentive strategies

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    2 May 2014

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    One of the most effective and more popular strategies to encourage green building is to incentivize the market through financial or structural incentives. Rewarding developers or homeowners who practice green building techniques spurs innovation and demand for green building technologies.

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  • Transforming trash into treasure in Tel Aviv

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    1 May 2014
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    Photo credit: Ashley Katz
    Photo credit: Ashley Katz
    Photo credit: Ashley Katz

    Landfills aren’t generally high on my list of must see spots to visit while on vacation, but after touching down at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport earlier this month, I made a beeline towards the country’s newest attraction. Formerly dubbed Trash Mountain, this recovering landfill sits 20 minutes outside of bustling Tel Aviv, and was once considered not only an eyesore but a toxic wasteland. 

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