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USGBC Wants You to Comment on the Next Version of LEED

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Green Building Council is looking for the future of LEED and has officially opened a call for feedback and ideas for the next version of LEED. This is an opportunity for anyone and everyone to influence the next version of the most widely used green building rating system in the world. could become the foundation of LEED certification.

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How Green is Your Garden?

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Hosted by the Edward Lowe Foundation in Cassopolis, MI. Ed and Darlene Lowe established the Edward Lowe Foundation in 1985 “to champion the entrepreneurial spirit” and leverage entrepreneurship as a strategy for economic growth and community development. The post How Green is Your Garden?

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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Green Building. Negative equity is not a good sign for any segment of our market – new construction, existing home sales, new construction, commercial work as well as the support services that cater to the real estate market. On the commercial side, there are plenty of Private Equity funds set up to purchase Class A facilities.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Green Building. Negative equity is not a good sign for any segment of our market – new construction, existing home sales, new construction, commercial work as well as the support services that cater to the real estate market. On the commercial side, there are plenty of Private Equity funds set up to purchase Class A facilities.

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

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Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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FEATURE STORY: The Cultural Roots Of High-Tech Growth

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A white paper recently released by the Kauffman Foundation finds that Kansas City and other areas viewed as “new” startup high-tech hubs actually are benefitting from many years of nurturing a local culture of entrepreneurship. billion in equity. Photo: Rockymountaininnosphere.org.). By Jonathan Sanders. Their study was based on U.S.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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Its leaders gave Ivory Homes the green light to build three prototype houses on a brownfield corner lot of less than half an acre, with accessory dwelling units integrated either above the garage or into the ground floor. RELATED: How Small and Medium-Size Builders Can Prevail.