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The days of making the business case for sustainable design, or even explaining what LEED means and why it is important, have passed. Today's green building challenges have moved to more complicated areas of policy — permitting and politics — and the motivating sense of competition to be "the greenest."
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At first glance, the glossy new 35-story condominium tower slicing into the lower Manhattan skyline doesn't stand out as a beacon of sustainable design. Its sleek form — an extruded curving wedge accented with red terra cotta bands — looks more Ferrari than Prius. And the structure's granite base and travertine lobby walls are elements not usually associated with green building.
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More Environment Making Buildings Good — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0722A New Branch of Architecture: Grow Your Own Building — Tree Hugger, 2009.0722 Setting the Pace to Create the Greenest Building Ever — Centre Daily Times, 2009.0722 Factory-Built Home in Georgia Earns LEED Platinum — PR Newswire, 2009.0720 Would You Live in an Earthquake-Resistant Home Made from Straw and Hemp? — Fast Company, 2009.0716 Its Economy in Shambles, the Midwest Goes Green — World Changing (blog), 2009.0716 The Green House Effect — Fast Forward Weekly, 2009.0716 U.S. And China Agree to Study Energy-Efficient Buildings — New York Times, 2009.0716 Limits on Logging in Old-Growth Forest Reinstated — New York Times, 2009.0716 Study Suggests Wind Power Potential Is Much Higher Than Current Estimates — New York Times, 2009.0716 Green Remodel Eliminates Home's Electric Bill — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2009.0715 A River Runs under It — New York Times, 2009.0715 Melbourne Convention Center Achieves 6 Star Green Star Certification — Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0715 A Sustainable New Orleans Slowly Rises in Katrina's Wake — New York Times, 2009.0714 Dividing the Burden of CO2 Reduction — New York Times, 2009.0714 Sustainable Welsh Timber Building System Wins Awards — Green Building Press, 2009.0714 Step by Green Step — Jakarta Post, 2009.0714 LionForce Earns ‘Gold’ Certification for San Antonio Home — San Antonio Business Journal, 2009.0713 A Solar Land Rush — New York Times, 2009.0713 Boiling the Frog — New York Times, 2009.0713 Green Governing — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2009.0712 Court Overturns Bush-Era Smog Rule — New York Times, 2009.0710 Russians Plan Floating Nuclear Plants — New York Times, 2009.0709 A Push to Hide Solar Panels in Santa Monica — New York Times, 2009.0709 Poorer Nations Reject a Target on Emission Cut — New York Times, 2009.0709 The Two-Degree Solution — New York Times, 2009.0709 Regnum Tower for Istanbul Features BioClimatic Architecture — Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0708 The First Living Building Sets the Bar — eMagazine, 2009.0708 Oil Baron's Wind Farm Project Hits Doldrums — CNN, 2009.0708
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