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Pittsburgh Convention Center Helps Green Up City’s Image

Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is ...

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Burt’s Bees Aims For Efficiency At New Distribution Center

Burt's Bees' has installed a sensor-activated motorized drive roller conveyor at its distribution center in North Carolina which has ...

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Dow’s Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver Big Return

Dow Chemical spent roughly $1 billion between 1995 and 2005 on refining its energy efficiency practices, investing in new clean-tech technologies, and ...

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Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC

Office Depot is the first company to achieve volume pre-certification under the pilot LEED Portfolio Program for its store ...

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AIA Evaluates Green Building Rating Systems

The American Institute of Architects has released a study of three of the most widely used green building ...

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34% Of Biz Travelers Seek Out Green Lodgings

U.S. business travelers are increasingly making daily choices to reduce their environmental impact, and they have specific expectations about the green practices ...

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Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships

By 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. expects to have 100 environmentally friendly dealerships -- or just under 10 percent of ...

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ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

The latest publication in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers' Advanced Energy Design Guide series ...

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Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

A green building study by the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment and investment management group Calvert Group found ...

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Energy efficiency was the winning bidder in the construction of the first new building eBay has built in its ...

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Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building

Blue Sun Biodiesel is the first energy company headquartered in a LEED Platinum certified office building, of which there are 26 in ...

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Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

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Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower

The HSBC Tower in downtown Mexico City is the first building in Latin America to receive LEED Gold certification from the Mexico ...

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AIA Picks Top Sustainable Building Designs

This year’s top picks for the best green building projects of the year from the American Institute of Architects Committee on ...

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LA Passes Green Building Rules

On Earth Day, the City Council of Los Angeles passed an ordinance requiring builders of large commercial and residential ...

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First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....

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Mortgage Company Offers Incentive To Buy Green

Countrywide Home Loans, a division of Countrywide Bank, has launched a Green Incentive Program, Danielle Johnson of GreenWorksRealty.com ...

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Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...

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