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The biggest toy store company in the U.S. outlined an ambitious agenda to open 21 new stores and renovate 23 others by the end of the year. Behind the ballyhooed expansion plans are a series of green building elements for each site.
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The Pixel building by Australian development and construction firm Grocon is not only the country's first carbon neutral office building, it is also the greenest.
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In a joint venture with China Eastern Airlines, Pratt & Whitney's Shanghai Engine Center has become the first facility in China to attain LEED-Platinum certification, the highest ranking possible under the U.S. Green Building Council's rating and assessment system.<br />
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With 73 skylights, a 40K photovoltaic system, a living roof and dozens of other eco-friendly design elements, the new Michael J. Homer Science and Student Life Center at Sacred Heart Schools has earned the first LEED-Platinum rating awarded under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Schools standards. <br />
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Changing the rules -- so long as the infrastructure exists to enforce those rules -- is the most effective leverage point in the "conventional" toolkit of effecting change.
by Rob Watson
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The Melbourne Convention Center has earned a 6 Star rating under the Green Star certification system of Green Building Council Australia.
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Wells Fargo's newly opened Manhattan Beach branch has attained LEED-Gold status, exceeding certification expectations for the site, the financial services firm said this week.