Tag: Sustainable Buildings
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Climate change’s upside: Wealthier, healthier cities
While national governments struggle to establish an agreed global climate deal, many of the world’s largest cities have been taking action to combat the effects of a changing climate. As a result, these cities are cutting their carbon footprint, reporting annual energy savings of up to $13 million, and their residents are benefiting from healthier…
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Empire State of mind
Empire State Building, by Scott Beale The innovative energy efficiency program at the Empire State Building has exceeded guaranteed energy savings for the second year in a row, saving $2.3 million and providing a new model for building retrofits that is now being rolled out nationwide, according to project partners Jones Lang Lasalle (NYSE: JLL),…
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Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’
Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…
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Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’
Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…
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Obama’s Better Building Challenge on track for 2020 goal
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton tour upgrades of the Transwestern Building in 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) New numbers released by President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge show challenge partners have improved facility energy efficiency by more than 2.5 percent per year on average compared to their baseline years –…