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Hungry for Data: LEED Targets Data Centers

March 21, 2012 by USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council)
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Quick: How did you get to our blog? Did you click on a link via Twitter, or see the article pop up in your RSS reader? However you arrived here, you probably used around 180 KB of data to load this webpage. Recently, there’s been a surge of LEED-certified data centers. [read more]

Energy Guides for Buildings? It’s Coming!

August 19, 2011 by Carrie Nash
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First adopted over a decade ago in Australia and Denmark, mandatory building energy rating policies are now in place in over 30 countries worldwide. Fundamentally, rating and disclosure is pretty straightforward – we see the concept applied every day in nutritional labels on food, fuel economy stickers on cars and energy labels on... [read more]

Military Housing: It’s Red, White and Green

August 6, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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Unless you serve in the military, you have probably never heard of Lend Lease. A global, publicly-traded property development and management firm headquartered in Australia, Lend Lease is best known in the U.S. as a provider of military housing, on big Army and Navy bases including Fort Drum in upstate New York, Fort Hood in Texas and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. [read more]

Shine On: Is NYC Emerging As A Solar Hub?

April 13, 2011 by Stephen Del Percio
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Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday that Stephen was writing about Solar One’s ambitious Solar Two Arts and Green Energy Education Center. But it wasn’t — it was May of 2007, actually, which meant that Lehman Brothers was still in business, the Mets were still in contention for a playoff spot, and Lady Gaga was not even... [read more]

LEED-Certified Adaptive Reuse in Buffalo Earns State Historic Preservation Award

December 31, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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Yesterday, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation announced its 2010 New York State Historic Preservation Awards, which have been handed out annually since 1980 to acknowledge excellence in the protection of historic sites across the Empire State. Two of this year’s winners are located here in New York... [read more]

Huge Net Zero HGA House in Southampton Earns LEED Platinum

December 27, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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We wrote over a year ago about the HGA House under its former moniker – the Dubin House (named for the owner-couple that rebuilt the house after its previous iteration was destroyed by fire in 2008). Earlier this month, USGBC announced that the house has been certified LEED Platinum by copping 104 total points under the LEED for Homes... [read more]

Violet and Green: NYU’s LEED Platinum-Hopeful Wilf Hall Opens To Positive Reviews — And Protests

December 14, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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As I’ve written in the past, there are times when it’s instructive — or at least interesting — to ask the green building aficionado’s version of WWJD — call it WWJJT, What Would Jane Jacobs Think? The legendary urbanist and rabble rouser did battle with a wholly different set of powers-that-be than the ones that currently, um, be in New... [read more]

Over One Billion Served: USGBC, LEED Hits Square-Foot Landmark, Keep Rolling

December 10, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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Get far enough behind, and everything converges and a sort of amorphous, daunting impossibility. In a sense, there’s something good about the way in which this has come down on me, recently, here at GBNYC. It’s been awfully quiet around here of late, as you’ve probably noticed, for all the familiar, prosaic, suffocating and plain-crappy... [read more]

Federal Government to Boost U.S. Solar Market through LEED Certification

October 18, 2010 by Reginald Norris
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By: Matthew K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.comBack in October of 2009, President Obama signed an executive order that called for a 30% cut in vehicle fuel use by 2020, a 50% increase in recycling by 2015, and to establish 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets within 90 days. Under this executive order, all federal... [read more]

Sweet Green: Mars Chocolate Cops Jersey’s First LEED-CI Gold Rating

October 4, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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We don’t write much about LEED for Commercial Interiors projects in the Garden State, so we were glad to note an important milestone out in deeply suburban Warren County. Mars Chocolate last week announced that its North American headquarters building in Hackettstown has achieved New Jersey’s first LEED Gold certification for a private... [read more]

CEO Dan Hesse: Sprinting towards sustainability

September 19, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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“People just want a cell phone,” Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, told me. “They don’t care how green it is.” “But we think they will over time.” Is that sufficient reason to try to sell “green” phones, aggressively promote recycling and buy renewable energy? “People want to do business with good companies,” Hesse says. “I want us to be... [read more]

Your Parents Now Know More About Green Building: NPR Back For More On LEED

September 10, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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Earlier this week, we all felt the warmth when green building’s two-part special on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered kicked off. Obviously, green building is neither obscure nor fringe-y at this point — billion-dollar industries tend not to be — but breaking through onto NPR was a big deal. It helped, of course, that part... [read more]

SoHo Starbucks Seeks LEED for Retail (CI) Certification on Spring Street

May 5, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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LEED for Retail is a newcomer to USGBC’s suite of LEED rating systems; it was approved on March 11 and will launch formally later this year under two separate tracks for commercial interior buildouts and new construction projects. Given that it’s almost impossible not to spy one of its outlets on any given block of Manhattan, the fact... [read more]

ReCircle: LEDs, smart roofs, not-so-smart meters, Joe Biden, and more!

March 27, 2010 by Peter Troast
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From Energy Circle: LEDs could just save the U.S. ...$120 billion in energy costs and tons of earth-warming carbon emissions, that is. This, from a recent Department of Energy report that projects in 20 years a wholesale switch to the coolest lights on earth. In search of energy efficiency know-how, online. Energy Circle founder Peter... [read more]

A Green Infrastructure Unlocks Several Successful Environmental Initiatives

March 3, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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Cutting down on carbon emissions has been at the forefront of the Go Green movement. However, some initiatives that target a completely new, green infrastructure have gone unnoticed yet are essential to competitiveness, long-term sustainability, job growth, energy independence and national security. Efficiency and conservation are... [read more]