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White Paper
By Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston | University of Florida
We've all read the news of companies going green and making green. The headlines make a compelling case for a CEO to take the plunge. Institutions of higher education are making similar commitments ...
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White Paper
By Christine McEntee | American Institute of Architects
Sustainable principles for the design, construction, and renovation of homes and buildings are imperatives that will yield economic, health, and most importantly, environmental benefits. In terms of...
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White Paper
By Georges Dyer, Greenland Enterprises
Invisible and Avoidable
If you’re reading this in an office, look at the ceiling. Chances are you’ll see a patchwork of sprinkler heads hanging over the room. Unless you work in the fire ...
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White Paper
By Doug Gatlin | U.S. Green Building Council
Sustainability is fast becoming accepted as a mainstream ideal in our society. 2007 was marked by a series of bellwether events: corporate America challenging our nation's political leadership to ta...
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White Paper
By Paul Todd Merrill | Clayco
The construction industry has a massive impact on the global environment. Luckily, it is now re-evaluating all components of the building process, including extraction of raw materials, design pract...
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White Paper
By Jessica Bier, David Linich, Christopher Park / Deloitte Consulting LLP
One challenge in creating a green workplace is that traditional methods of communicating do not apply. Research has shown that centralized greeningplans distributed from the top down have little eff...
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White Paper
By Rese Fox / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Many companies are taking the plunge and deciding to build green LEED-certified buildings (LEED is the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green buil...
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White Paper
By Doug Gatlin / U.S. Green Building Council
Evidence that green buildings do not have to cost a penny more than their conventional counterparts continue to pile up, as do the studies that validate significant ongoing operational cost savings ...
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White Paper
By Paul von Paumgartten / Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments
The new construction of high-performance green buildings gets the lion’s share of attention in the United States when building experts discuss building trends, solutions for climate change and...
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Case Study
By American Institute of Architects
First occupied in 1973, the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) headquarters in Washington was designed by The Architect’s Collaborative, a firm founded by architect Walter Gropius.A...
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White Paper
By Tim Cole / Forbo Flooring Systems
If you were asked which you prefer, clean air or clean water, which would you choose? Most would say: "I want both" or, "Why do I have to choose?" The answer is that you should not have to cho...
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White Paper
By Kofi Gamor | BearingPoint
International protocols have taken great strides to summon the world to arms regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the adverse effects of our rapidly increasing global carbon footprint. In 19...
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White Paper
By Dr. Joseph Romm | Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
The Time is Now for Green Buildings
Corporate environmental sustainability initiatives are more valuable and necessary today than ever before, thanks to five major reasons: compelling evidence of hu...
