Green Central: Green City and Sustainable Community Development

Green Central

Green City and Community

Building An Emerald City

Top Ten Trends in Green Building

Excerpted from the new book Building an Emerald City: A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Program, by Lucia Athens. Lucia is Senior Sustainable Futures Strategist with CollinsWoerman. Building an Emerald City is a roadmap to help policy makers, public officials, and green building advocates develop green building programs to accelerate market adoption of green building practices in order to create more sustainable communities and cities. It is the essential guide for anyone interested in developing and implementing the practices that ensure successful green building projects. Look for Building an Emerald City in stores and online in November 2009...
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Design for Social Sustainability at Seattle's Central Library

As a culture we hold dear social values such as public good, health and well-being, quality of life, diversity, and equity. The focus of this article is how Seattle’s Central Library, a Silver LEED™ project, integrates social benefit into its design. While LEED provides credit opportunities for some social issues, many are not addressed by the LEED System.
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