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Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge: The Perfect Storm?
Slowly but surely, something interesting is happening in the commercial building sector. Call it the Empire State Building effect: more and more owners of large, commercial buildings have gotten the memo on how quickly energy efficient building upgrades can pay for themselves (and then make buildings less costly to operate, while drawing...[read more]
Chicago Steps Up To Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge
President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge is all about catalyzing investment in commercial and industrial building energy upgrades and supporting new jobs in the process. We’ve seen Seattle, Los Angeles and Atlanta rise to that challenge, and now the president’s old buddy Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced that Chicago will do so as...[read more]
Seattle 2030 District: The NEXT Big Thing in Green Building
Brett PhillipsDirector of Sustainability, Unico PropertiesBoard Chairman, Seattle 2030 DistrictBrian GellerExecutive DirectorSeattle 2030 DistrictThe green building movement has made great strides in recent years, but it’s not enough. In order to put up a good fight against ever-increasing environmental and economic pressures, we need a...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”