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USA Today renews its examination of green building with a focus on schools and claims that there is little link between environmentally friendly buildings and learning or energy use. USGBC fires back.
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The USGBC and the Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School introduce two resources to help local governments leverage LEED for Neighborhood Development as a tool for sustainable development.
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Forty-five college teams receive grants as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
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The designer of the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas was once better known for his iconoclasm. No less provocative today, the winner of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal has done some of his best work for the federal government's Design Excellence Program.
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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects won the AIA's highest honor for an architecture firm, a prize commending their often spiritual, always textural works, which include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation museum in Philadelphia.
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German businesses and households accounted for 95 percent of German climate finance in 2010, according to a new report from the Climate Policy Initiative.
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Teams from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture and Clemson University win the International Sustainable Laboratory Student Design Competition.
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The organization is seeking standards development committee members.
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A new guide aims to unify roof and wall insulation values among the International Energy Conservation Code, the International Green Construction Code, ASHRAE 90.1, and common forms of construction.
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The USGBC’s web-based tool aims for greater transparency and understanding of green-building practices.