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44 percent of the homes classified as affordable housing
Washington, D.C. — (Jan. 23, 2014) — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announces the 50,000th LEED-certified green housing unit.
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Friday Roundup: AIA’s best buildings, Michigan chapter’s challenge
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Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips:
The 11 Best American-Designed Buildings of The Year, GizModo. The LEED Gold Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center was a recipient of the 2014 American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture.
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Shanghai Green Building Incubator: Your entryway into China’s robust green building market
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The U.S. Green Building Council has teamed up with Shanghai Industrial Finance Investment Co. Ltd (SHIF)to offer USGBC members services through a green building technology incubator in Shanghai, China. If your company has ever considered expanding its business into China, this could be an important next step. The environmental imperatives, business trends, and governmental mandates in China signal great opportunity and China is in fact, the world’s third largest market outside of the U.S. for LEED projects.
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Start small with big New Year’s goals
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At the start of each year, millions of us resolve to make renewed commitments to healthy living, time with family, philanthropy, financial responsibility and countless other things that better ourselves and our communities. The most successful New Year’s resolutions I’ve made and kept over the years have been ones that approach a big idea through smaller, achievable milestones. When I decided a few years ago that I wanted to read more I started out, with the goal to read one book each month.
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LEED v2008 Homes energy update: Road to ballot
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The results are in and the LEED Homes v2008 energy update has passed ballot. Beginning on Oct. 1, 2014, newly registering projects will be asked to meet the new requirements. The credit library and LEED Online will be updated automatically. Learn more.
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Half of US energy-neutral buildings also show leadership with LEED
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Yesterday, the New Buildings Institute (NBI) redefined the landscape of top performers in building energy efficiency in North America. NBI’s new report, “2014 Getting to Zero Status Update,” reveals 213 commercial buildings that are doing the unthinkable: building a legacy of an annual footprint of zero operational energy.
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13th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
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Interested in building safe, healthy, equitable and prosperous communities?
The registration deadline for the New Partners for Smart Growth conference in Denver from Feb. 13-15 is Tuesday, Jan. 21. After the Jan. 21, a $50 late fee will apply to all registrations. Register today
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Friday Roundup: Green factories in Asia, NY’s road map for renewables
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Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green, The New York Times. USGBC platinum member Intel is pursuing environmental measures at its LEED-registered plant in Ho Chi Minh City that go far beyond what’s required by local law.
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A bit of advice for GBI’s new CEO: How to improve Green Globes’ sorry reputation and lack of market uptake
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We hear that Jerry Yudelson has a brand new job as the latest head of the Green Building Initiative (GBI). Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, it has 35 organizational members (of which more then half are either timber, chemical or plastics affiliates) and a staff of 11 employees/contractors – it’s not exactly clear. What is clear, though, is that they haven’t hired a new president as much as they’ve hired a new sales-person-in-chief, who’s now in charge of putting lipstick on their floundering, imported rating system.
