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America's Greenest Corporate Campus

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The Glendale, Wisconsin headquarters of Johnson Controls has received LEED Platinum certification (the highest recognition)--capping the largest concentration of LEED platinum buildings on one site.READ MORE›

City Center Las Vegas: Too Big NOT to Fail?

BY Craig Pelkey-Landes
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With a big budget and a big footprint MGM Mirage is crossing it's fingers for positive financial and environmental impact of City Center.READ MORE›

Taipei 101 Skyscraper to Be World's Tallest Green Building

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The Empire State Building may be set to become the world's most famous green office building, but the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan is gunning for the title of "World's Tallest Green Building," with $1.8 million in upgrades that ...READ MORE›

Portland, Oregon Giving "Feebates" to Green Builders

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Portland, Oregon officials think they can entice green builders with a new "feebate" program. Under the proposal, developers of commercial buildings that measure 20,000 square feet or larger will be charged up to $3.46 ...READ MORE›

Sustainable Architecture?

BY Suzanne O'Leary
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Wikipedia has a great summary of what sustainable design really is. The statement "Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind" is very true, and very important! It brings attention to the fact that if ...READ MORE›

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Goes Green Collar

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Industrial facilities conjure up images of smokestacks and pollution, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is planning a series of sustainable buildings that could change how we think about urban industrial parks. First up is the ...READ MORE›

Why Are the Majority of Things We Consume Inherently Unsustainable?

BY Autodesk Sustainable Blogging Team
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Although we've made great strides in sustainability--Wal-Mart, for example, has taken a huge step forward by setting a new standard for green manufacturing with its Sustainable Product Index--the majority of products, buildings, and ...READ MORE›

Habitat for Humanity Greens Low-Income Homes

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Sure, LEED and Energy Star-certified houses are great, but they can never make a difference on a large scale until low-income homes are included in the mix. Habitat for Humanity aims to bring green housing to all income levels with a ...READ MORE›

Independence Station: The World's Greenest Building?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The world's greenest building might soon be located in the pioneer town of Independence, Oregon. Independence Station--a 57,000 square foot mixed use facility--is on track to receive the highest LEED rating ever awarded when it is ...READ MORE›

The True Inconveniences of Designing Al Gore's Office

BY Suzanne LaBarre
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For a high-profile environmentalist such as Gore, politics sometimes interfere with making the right decision.READ MORE›

Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s Eco-Towers

BY Suzanne LaBarre
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Deutsche Bank is set to become carbon neutral, starting with the world's first LEED Platinum retrofitted skyscrapers. Too bad they're so damn ugly.READ MORE›

What's Even Greener Than LEED? The Omega Center

BY Cliff Kuang
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An educational center in New York might be the world's first building to earn a tough, ultra-green designation.READ MORE›

A Different Shade of Green

BY Josie Swindler
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Can a green building be green without LEED certification?READ MORE›

Faultless Towers

BY Walecia Konrad
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Real-estate moguls know there's good money in green buildings. But the little guy can play too.READ MORE›

Report: U.S. Green Building Market Will Balloon to $173.5 Billion by 2015

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Think the trend of businesses making green office renovations is just a passing fad? Not according to the latest issue of EL Insights, which reports that the U.S. green building market value will balloon from $71.1 billion now to ...READ MORE›

The Green Standard?

BY Anya Kamenetz
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LEED buildings get lots of buzz, but the point is getting lost.READ MORE›

Mainstreaming Green: Motel 6 Gets LEED Certification

BY Ariel Schwartz
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LEED certification: it isn't just for high-end apartment buildings, giant office complexes, and swanky hotels. Motel 6--yes, the famously low-rent motel chain we all know and love--expects to get Leadership in Energy and ...READ MORE›

The Campus as Living Laboratory

BY Anthony Cortese
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This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will ...READ MORE›

The Greening of Pro Sports Arenas

BY Ariel Schwartz
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What do the Miami Heat, Atlanta Thrashers, and Atlanta Hawks have in common? As of today, all three teams play in LEED-certified arenas. The Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida became ...READ MORE›

Starbucks Opens LEED Pilot Shop in NYC

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Starbucks is one of those rare food and beverage chains that embraces sustainability in both their products (Fair Trade coffee, for example) and in retail locations. The latter can be seen in Starbucks' newly completed Manhattan ...READ MORE›

Seoul to Get a Giant 131 Acre Green Roof

BY Ariel Schwartz
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What is it with South Korea these days? First we learned about the planned Ecorium, a giant nature reserve featuring eco domes, an education center, and an environmental think tank. And now Samoo Architects and Engineers, the same ...READ MORE›

Green-washing, through Green Design

BY Cliff Kuang
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It's not only the virtuous who are jumping on to the green-building bandwagon: Companies hoping to burnish spotty track records are hopping on as well. The blog Green Building Elements did a helpful service, gathering ten of the ...READ MORE›

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

BY Danielle Sacks
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William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ MORE›

100 Most Creative People in Business: #20 - Dawn Danby

BY Fast Company Staff
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Dawn Danby pops upover a Skype connection on the screen of my computer, holding up her laptop to the camera mounted in another. The machine in her hands shows a screen shot of Ecotect, a building-design program that represents the ...READ MORE›

Feedback

BY Fast Company Staff
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Letters. Updates. Advice.READ MORE›

Topic: Sustainable Design