Sentences with phrase «green building goals»

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Their goal is to build up Fasten's brand and ensure that more people recognize the app, which features a black, lowercase «e» on top of a neon green background.

Step 2: Sign up for a no - charge 15 - minute consultation to assess your / your business's greatest needs, goals, and obstacles in profitably becoming greener and building in deep social change.

• The city plans to complete a «comprehensive sustainability plan» that will contain strategies to enhance urban forestry, alternative energy, green building and other environmental goals.

When Cheri and I ran for office last year, one of our main goals was to build the Green Party and to inspire new leaders to run for office as Greens.

These Green Campaign Schools will focus on building skills at all levels, from assembling a campaign team, to creating effective campaign literature, raising money, handling and using voter data, financial reporting, media campaigns, the role of the candidate, and setting and working toward goals.

In order to achieve this goal, landscape architects have developed so - called «green roofs,» which utilize living plant matter and soil on top of a building in order to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing run - off.

$ 1.35 million Name: Green Flight Challenge Goal: Build an aircraft that can fly 200 miles on a gallon of gasoline per passenger.

Green schools exponentially help in reaching the Green Building Council's ambitious goal that within a generation, nearly every American commercial or public building that's retrofitted or newly constructed will meet green standGreen schools exponentially help in reaching the Green Building Council's ambitious goal that within a generation, nearly every American commercial or public building that's retrofitted or newly constructed will meet green standGreen Building Council's ambitious goal that within a generation, nearly every American commercial or public building that's retrofitted or newly constructed will meet green stBuilding Council's ambitious goal that within a generation, nearly every American commercial or public building that's retrofitted or newly constructed will meet green stbuilding that's retrofitted or newly constructed will meet green standgreen standards.

«Building green» is an umbrella phrase that encompasses numerous small but interconnected decisions we can make about materials, design, and building methods that collectively reduce energy use, improve health, and achieve other environmentaBuilding green» is an umbrella phrase that encompasses numerous small but interconnected decisions we can make about materials, design, and building methods that collectively reduce energy use, improve health, and achieve other environmentabuilding methods that collectively reduce energy use, improve health, and achieve other environmental goals.

But if changing the world means thinking globally, acting locally, and taking small steps toward commendable goals, the students and teachers at Clackamas — one of the first green schools in the nation when their building opened in 2002 — are on track to make the planet a better place.

Identify your role in advocating for and enacting green building improvements and understand how different stakeholder values and goals shape school investment priorities

S.D. Smith: We had kind of conspired for years that we wanted to do something together and initially, we wanted to publish some other authors first and that was kind of our goal, is to sort of build a publishing group, but we really didn't have anything else at the time, and I sort of got The Green Ember ready, which these were stories I told my kids, eventually just wrote them down.

The mission will highlight the benefits of sustainable urbanization, technologies to support China's air pollution and climate goals, and green buildings opportunities.

Business Green reports that DONG Energy is set to smash offshore wind cost - reduction goals with two wind farms that it's building off the Dutch coast.

The goal of this analysis is to identify leading policy trends, share best practices, and suggest technical, procedural, and policy options that can further increase the incorporation of green building procedures into affordable housing developments.

To achieve its goal to mitigate 100 % of unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions, Keurig Green Mountain has helped build more than 11 projects with NativeEnergy since 2003, including the 12.5 MW

To meet this goal, the city enacted the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan (GGBP), a set of energy efficiency laws that are focused on providing the City's largest buildings with the information they need to make informed decisions about their enBuildings Plan (GGBP), a set of energy efficiency laws that are focused on providing the City's largest buildings with the information they need to make informed decisions about their enbuildings with the information they need to make informed decisions about their energy use.

We utilize the most respected high energy performance and Georgia green home building programs, including ENERGY STAR, the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Home and Southface's EarthCraft House to accomplish our goal of becoming the go - to green home builder in Geogreen home building programs, including ENERGY STAR, the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Home and Southface's EarthCraft House to accomplish our goal of becoming the go - to green home builder in building programs, including ENERGY STAR, the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Home and Southface's EarthCraft House to accomplish our goal of becoming the go - to green home builder in GeoGreen Building Council's LEED for Home and Southface's EarthCraft House to accomplish our goal of becoming the go - to green home builder in Building Council's LEED for Home and Southface's EarthCraft House to accomplish our goal of becoming the go - to green home builder in Geogreen home builder in Georgia.

We are issuing a challenge to New York policy makers, developers, designers and building owners to contribute to the goal of 1 billion square feet of green roofs installed in North America by 2022 — that amounts to just over 3 million square feet installed each year!»

That is a key goal of the «green architecture» movement, which is changing the way buildings are designed, built and run.

Indian industry has also established ambitious targets for low - Footprint construction, with Indian Green Building Council having set a goal of achieving one billion square feet of green building space by Green Building Council having set a goal of achieving one billion square feet of green building space Building Council having set a goal of achieving one billion square feet of green building space by green building space building space by 2012.

-- The Secretary of Energy is authorized to provide grants to organizations to conduct business competitions that provide incentives, training, and mentorship to entrepreneurs, including minority - owned and woman - owned, and early stage start - up companies throughout the United States to meet high priority economic, environmental, and energy security goals in areas to include energy efficiency, renewable energy, air quality, water quality and conservation, transportation, smart grid, green building, and waste management.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

I applaud the goal of a PH / zero energy home... but it's a little much to say that building a second home is a «green endeavor»

China's national government set a goal for half of the country's new buildings to be green certified by 2020.

Green building helps preserve the environment and natural resources, and there are a variety of water - saving products available for kitchens and baths to help meet green design gGreen building helps preserve the environment and natural resources, and there are a variety of water - saving products available for kitchens and baths to help meet green design ggreen design goals.

A. On May 4, 2007 the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air - Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Architecture 2030, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), supported by representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy, agreed to define the baseline starting point for their common target goals as the national average / median energy consumption of existing U.S. commercial buildings as reported by the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS).

Key speakers, including executives from Rockwool, Siemens, Gensler, Philips Lighting, the U.S. Green Building Council, JPMorgan Chase and others, will debate how existing We Mean Business Coalition commitments on science - based targets, energy productivity and renewable energy can help drive towards the essential goal of decarbonizing the buildingBuilding Council, JPMorgan Chase and others, will debate how existing We Mean Business Coalition commitments on science - based targets, energy productivity and renewable energy can help drive towards the essential goal of decarbonizing the buildingbuilding sector.

Johnson Controls is forming a strategic alliance with Zhejiang Jianke Building Energy Conservation Technology Co., Ltd (Zhejiang Jianke) that will help the province of Zhejiang achieve its «green» goals and ensure the sustainable development of the province.

Our Green Building Incentives provide assistance for your green building project by putting it ahead of others to help you meet the highest sustainability gGreen Building Incentives provide assistance for your green building project by putting it ahead of others to help you meet the highest sustainabilitBuilding Incentives provide assistance for your green building project by putting it ahead of others to help you meet the highest sustainability ggreen building project by putting it ahead of others to help you meet the highest sustainabilitbuilding project by putting it ahead of others to help you meet the highest sustainability goals.

The site's anti-realist slant is hardly a surprise considering Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in 2008 launched a site called «Wikia Green» with the goal of «building the best resource for our citizens of the Earth to learn about the environment and how to live a more sustainable life.»

Green For All works to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.Our goal is to make sure people of color have a place and a voice in the climate moveGreen For All works to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.Our goal is to make sure people of color have a place and a voice in the climate movegreen economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.Our goal is to make sure people of color have a place and a voice in the climate movement.

Sure, we might all hope that Passivhauses and resilient green building will go mainstream soon, but mainstream adoption of solar will help move us toward that goal.

The plan builds on recommendations from the Governor's Green Jobs Cabinet, which identified five headline goals for the state to adopt in the near future:

AIA members are well positioned to see that goal through: According to the survey, 88 % of respondents have received training or continuing education focused on green building practices.

The goal of Standard 189 is to further drive green building into mainstream practices, says Fedrizzi.

Thomas Mueller, CEO of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC), says, «This target will result in an estimated 6.8 million tonne reduction of CO2 annually from the commercial office sector by 2015 and contribute to the CaGBC's goal of achieving significant CO (2) savings from buildings and homes in Canada,»

Already the House has taken a first step toward that goal by including a provision in the legislation from the Energy and Commerce Committee requiring all federal buildings to go green with sustainable, low - energy materials and processes.

The initial step in a successful green lease negotiation should occur even before leasing gets underway, Grais says: «The landlord has to decide what the environmental goals are for the building.