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Green Building

LACCD’s Billion Dollar Campus Building Program Showing Results for Colleges & Impacting Sustainability Practices

Larry Eisenberg
Larry Eisenberg
When the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) launched a $1.2 billion building program in 2001, green building and sustainability were not nearly the industry buzz words that they are today. Now, with LACCD’s program continuing through 2015 and spending $6 billion, LACCD has consistently set the market for green products and can claim game-changing impacts on sustainability practices in the building industry.

Larry Eisenberg

CA State Treasurer Bill Lockyer Unveils Green Building Bond; Expands Sustainable Investments

Bill Lockyer
Bill Lockyer
State
Treasurer Bill Lockyer details how California is using its vast financial resources to secure a greener and more sustainable economy. 

Bill Lockyer

"Chief Sustainability Officers:' The New Corporate Stewards of the Environment

Robyn Beavers
Robyn Beavers
Eliot Abel
Eliot Abel
Rachel Webber
Rachel Webber
As corporations around the world implement sustainability practices, they have restructured their operational flow chart to make space for the increasingly popular position of “Chief Sustainability Officer.”

Robyn Beavers

Falcon Waterfree Technologies Delivers Water Efficiency Around the World

James Krug
James Krug
The greening of the world’s facilities, private and public, is going to require numerous retrofits of existing systems and equipment. Falcon Waterfree urinals are a sterling example of the benefits offered by new technology.

James Krug

Brazil's Jaime Lerner Recommends 'Urban Acupuncture' for Cities

Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerner
Few former planners and architects tout more caché than Jaime Lerner, who, as mayor of Curitiba and governor of the state of Parana in Brazil, implemented groundbreaking and widely imitated improvements to infrastructure and the built environment.

Jaime Lerner

Environmental Hero McDonough Proffers Green Design Solutions

William McDonough
William McDonough
Architect William McDonough's list of accomplishments is long and distinguished: author of Cradle to Cradle, Time Magazine "Hero" for the environment, founder of William McDonough+Partners.

William McDonough

Alberici Builds LEED Platinum Headquarters; Spawns Green Subsidiary, Vertegy

Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor
After achieving unprecedented levels of sustainability with its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and recognizing a need in the market for a consultants on similar projects, Alberici Corp. launched Vertegy, a new green consulting subsidiary.

Tom Taylor

Google’s Corporate Campus Profits from Solar Array, Green Building Practices

Robyn Beavers
Robyn Beavers
Google’s Director of Corporate Environmental Programs Robyn Beavers discusses Google’s initiatives to transform its campus into a greener workplace and the future model of corporate environmentalism.

Robyn Beavers

Eco-Friendly Cities: Arup Offers Models of Sustainable Planning

Andy Howard
Andy Howard
Arup America Regional COO Andy Howard discusses holistic innovation and the worldwide appeal of sustainable planning and engineering.

Andy Howard

L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa’s City Planning Department Re-Colors Itself Green

Claire Bowin
Claire Bowin
Claire Bowin, head of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s green building program, discusses the role of local planning in climate change mitigation.

Claire Bowin

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