It ain?t easy being green. At least, not certifiably. Just ask Connie Engel, a partner at Childress Klein, which manages and leases most of Atlanta Galleria, an 86-acre office park in Cobb County with six high-rise buildings. The firm is not seeking ...
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IGCC Releases Version 2.0 of Green Construction Code For Adoption By Municipalities
The International Code Council recently released the International Green Construction Code (IGCC) Public Version 2.0, without much noise. But, this marks a significant development in green building and sustainable cities. Cities now have a viable code ...
Architectural Record: Robert Redford Teams Up With USGBC for Green Schools Summit
The award-winning actor and director Robert Redford has long used his star power to champion environmental, social, and artistic causes. Roughly 40 years ago, he purchased a tract of land Utah?s Wasatch Mountains that would evolve into the 5,000-a...
Greenbuild 2010: Top Green Building Law Bloggers Provide Insight Into Coming Challenges
I follow the three leading bloggers on green building law closely; they make complicated and important issues affecting green building comprehensible. When I saw that they were all on a panel together at Greenbuild, I had to attend and meet them in per...
Green Building Controversy: Is The Sustainable Forestry Initiative Another Example of Greenwashing?
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is the world's largest forest certification standard and the fastest growing organization for chain of custody certifications. More than 181 million acres of land are certified by the nonprofit, which supposedl...