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Academic Institutions Achieving LEED Certification

Environment + Energy Leader

Currently, 163 Institutions of Higher Education are members of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), a non-profit organization that was founded in 1993 with the goal of promoting sustainability in the built environment. The post Academic Institutions Achieving LEED Certification appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Employee Spotlight: How These Magenta Rock Stars Go Green

3BL Media

From ‘smartbuildings to financial investments in wind and solar farm installations, it’s exciting to stay on the cutting edge of solutions that truly improve our environment." Amy Bond, Technology Sourcing Manager on T-mobile’s Procurement Team Focused on Energy and Sustainability. Defining sustainability can be difficult.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

because I had won that award at the White House for sustainable development and I am an academic to them, which they respect. So, I prefer wise buildings to smart buildings because we can go beyond statistical significance into a natural intelligence. Four years is not enough.". With Madame Deng Nan, 1999. And so I did.

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Modernizing Building Management Systems at the University of Notre Dame

Cisco CSR

Modernizing building management systems (BMS) has become a priority for several universities, including the University of Notre Dame (UND). Figure 1 Cisco network architecture and Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building Operation solution. Learn more about this story and the Schneider Electric and Cisco partnership.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

Beginning in the mid-2010s, citizens groups, entrepreneurs and academic institutions pushed Dutch policy-makers and companies to swap out the top-down approach in favour of a more grass-roots philosophy that features extensive public engagement, citizen-science projects and applied research. .