Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
Clif Bar, the granddaddy of the modern day energy bar, has been sustainably celebrating its 20th birthday this year. The company’s latest accomplishment is this week’s announcement that its headquarters in Emeryville, CA, across the bay from San Francisco, was awarded with LEED Platinum certification.
This week Kohl’s issued its first annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, which discusses the company’s energy efficiency and green building efforts.
Grainger has actively worked to increase the efficiency and sustainability of its own operations by investing in LEED certified facilities, building out sustainable product offerings and educating its team. Now increasingly, the company provides sustainability consulting support to its customers, and a suite of certified sustainable products.
Msheireb Properties is building a 35-hectare project in Doha, Qatar, that will infuse traditional Arabian architecture with modern green building techniques.
When it comes to details, Dubai is a global leader and the quality of life and business climate both have tremendous benefits. But when it comes to overall design, Dubai could use some CPR.
I have to admit that I got it wrong. Last September, I wrote here about the battle between the competing forest products certification Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Forest Stewardship Council (SFI). I thought that the fact that seven large companies decided to reject the SFI certification meant that SFI is going to lose this [...]
A friend in Charleston, SC recently sent me a link to a story about a LEED certified homeless shelter being built there. It seemed like an odd choice. Aren’t shelters typically dealing with tight budgets? But then I realized that just because a building is designed for the most needy, the same economic and environmental principles apply.
Avon’s CSR report, released earlier this week, touts a bevy of achievements and promises to address issues including deforestation, governance and philanthropy.
This week in Doha, Qatar, over 12,000 attendees will gather for the triennial World Petroleum Congress (WPC), which promises to be carbon neutral.
By Eric Flamer The US Green Building Council reports that as of March 3, 2011, 91 hotel properties have achieved LEED certification, with an additional 1100 projects registering with LEED and working towards certification. From my employment experience in the Washington, DC convention hotel market, the truth is that most of the buildings dedicated to hospitality [...]
Frito-Lay reopens what will be a “near net zero” plant. The factory will run of mostly renewable energy, operate significantly with recycled water, and will send almost no waste to the landfill.
Alex Steffen gave a smashing opening keynote to the inaugural SXSWeco conference in Austin today, sharing a host of predictions on how sustainability might best be incorporated into a future society. Clean energy? Nice, but it doesn’t stand a chance at meeting current, much less future, demand. What really matters? Redesigning, and in some cases re-building the built [...]
Recently, the Regional Sustainable Business Alliance, a group formed out of the Cedar Rapids, IA, Area Chamber of Commerce, brought nearly 50 professionals together to learn about a forthcoming environmental rating system for roofs, called RoofPoint. You might be thinking, “Wait, there are already green rating systems for buildings.” You’re right. Today, most professionals are [...]
This award winning winery became the first winery in Napa Valley to provide an electric recharging station.
When the U.S. Army began to decontaminate the 4,307 ton containers (TC) which stored chemical weapons at its Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas in September 2003, it realized rinsing the TCs wasn’t working. To rinse all of the TCs would require 660,000 gallons of liquid. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) designed a magnetic [...]
By: Tim Eyre, Extra Space Storage The robust global environmentalism movement has impacted virtually all aspects of American life. And while green building practices have been utilized in single family construction for some time now, developers in the multi-family sector have only recently started taking notice, recognizing that the added cost of implementing eco-friendly design [...]
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced this week that their agencies launched a grant program that will help build more sustainably-built and transit-friendly communities.
Lowe’s has continued to work on quality of life issues that have been part of the company’s philosophy for over sixty years. Its 2010 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report zeros in on three high-level focal points: workplace, community, and the environment.
By Ronald C. Weston, AIA, LEED AP The sustainable design and green building movement have made tremendous advances over the past decade to the point that virtually every building project today employs some level of green design. And yet despite the bar being raised significantly there remains resistance in the public and private sectors to [...]
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Bank of America announced yesterday that it has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 15 percent by 2015 based on the company’s 2010 baseline.
Intel is the first semiconductor or industrial technology company to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for a manufacturing complex. As a result of Intel’s long history of energy conservation, its Ocotillo, Arizona site was awarded the silver LEED certification without any substantial building [...]
This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can follow along here. By Kyle Gillis In late 2012, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) will unveil its new certified wood policies for its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) MRc7 credit rating system. [...]
Dealing with green building certifications, even for building material professionals, is anything but easy. Serious Materials, a company dedicated to building better buildings, is creating solutions to improve energy efficiency and building sustainability. This interview with Brandon Tinianov, the CTO of Serious Materials, is a continuation of our conversation on the new windows of the [...]
Buildings consume over 50% of the energy in the US, and over 50% of building energy consumed by buildings is in heating and cooling. Serious Materials, a company dedicated to building energy efficiency, is curbing unnecessary heating and cooling losses with their window technology while making offices more comfortable. In this interview, Brandon Tinianov, the [...]
This article has been updated since it was first published. The following is part of the Crowds of Ratings series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on over 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. 3p readers get 40% off CSRHub’s professional subscriptions [...]
By: George Rollins Take a walk through a home improvement store, or read a local business ad, and chances are that you will come across more green “certification” programs than you can keep track of. From Energy Star and LEED, to sustainable building standards, organic certifications and even standards for lumber, it seems as though [...]
by Susan Brautovich, LEED AP While you can argue that a house doesn’t have to be small to be green, it certainly doesn’t hurt. And it may be a trend that’s poised to take off. In terms of greener building, resource consumption and the amount of conditioned space involved in smaller houses are just the [...]
When the Charlotte, NC ImaginOn opened in 2005, it was the city’s first green building. The combination library and children’s theater used a number of innovative features in its construction including compressed wheat fiberboard, recycled rubber parts and plastic bottles. The builders recycled all of the waste material and incorporated numerous energy savings elements into [...]
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