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Meet the chief of staff who helped make San Francisco International Airport a leader in sustainability.
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Architects have a historic opportunity to transform the ever-growing built environment's impact for the better.
by Lance Hosey
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Gov. Cuomo's executive order is focusing on implementing retrofits on the state's oldest buildings first.
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Cisco is a major partner in the effort for smart cities certification.
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The EPD Transparency Brief aims to make product environmental information not only free, but simple to review.
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Cynthia Rosenzweig, a world-renowned urban climate change expert, explains what businesses and cities can do to help each other prepare for the threats posed by the warming planet.
by Ann Goodman
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The co-founder of Artists for Humanity talks about training in the arts, and all it entails in terms of community, responsibility and hard work, helps to set them up as future leaders of a more sustainable world.
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I have the radical confidence to believe in a positive future, one in which our better instincts enable us to interpret the evidence presented by the laws of the planet so that all life on Earth can prosper.
by Rob Watson
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That, according to the Dalai Lama, is what we need to solve the world's environmental problems.
by Rob Watson
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New York City updates and expands its ambitious green agenda, PlaNYC, as the city's long-term master plan for sustainability celebrates its fourth anniversary. PlaNYC was launched on Earth Day 2007.
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The company has developed a new green building standard to guide its investment called the Enterprise Sustainable Construction Protocol (ESCP). Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects ESCP could rack up energy and water savings of up to 35 percent.
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<span class='mceItemHidden' spellcheck='false'>This week, I took a tour of <span class='hiddenSpellError'>Masdar City -- the audacious, carbon-neutral, zero-waste $15 to $20-billion planned development rising out of the Arabian desert. Here's the view from the ground.
by Marc Gunther
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With two of its more high-profile facilities recognized as green buildings, FedEx Express is making LEED certification a requirement for all new construction. The move by FedEx's cargo airline is the latest sustainability measure to emerge under the rubric of the corporation's EarthSmart program.
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Speaking on leadership, resilience and the value of diversity, retired four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell helped officially open the Greenbuild conference, the green building industry's largest international convention.
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As all eyes are on Copenhagen for these two weeks. It seems the three main perspectives on a global climate solution are: Hope, Cope and Nope.
by Rob Watson
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The ambitious executive order signed by President Obama on Monday not only requires all departments of the federal government to set hard emissions-reductions targets, it will also have a huge impact on adoption of specific green building and green IT practices.
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Corporate America's embrace of sustainability has more than doubled in strength in the past three years with 76 percent of the largest U.S. firms reporting efforts and commitments that exceed those required by law, according to a new study.