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Sustainable Sites Initiative Lawsuit is a Cautionary Tale

Green Building Law Update

In an all-out brawl within the environmental industrial complex, last week the American Society of Landscape Architects filed a lawsuit over the ownership of the trademark for the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) against the Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center at the University of Texas. Green Building Council''s LEED rating system.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., the USGBC associated certification body for LEED, announced it had acquired the exclusive rights to the SITES rating system, its publications and trademarks.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., the USGBC associated certification body for LEED, announced it had acquired the exclusive rights to the SITES rating system, its publications and trademarks.

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Green Building Law Blog - Untitled Article

Green Building Law Blog

She has experience with regulatory development, energy sales agreements, energy project construction contracts, project financing, permitting and land use approvals. Shari is very involved in developing sustainability in the Delaware Valley and beyond. Sharp Award for Best Grades/Best Research in Urban Renewal or Land Use Planning.

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LEED v4 has a New and Improved Registration Contract

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USGBC proudly boasts that LEED v4 has 80% fewer forms when compared to LEED 2009. Simply stated, the Certification Agreement is “the” contract that governs certification of a project under the LEED program. Green Building Council.”

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. There would have to be some agreement, that does not exist today of what it means to be net zero (e.g., carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?).

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

Which at first blush might appear to not necessarily a bad thing, given that the IgCC, first published in 2009, has only been adopted, in whole, but mostly in part, in maybe 17 jurisdictions, out of the more than 4,400 code adopting jurisdictions across the U.S., But arising from a 2014 confidential agreement signed by the U.S.

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