Wells Fargo Opens Waco’s first LEED® Silver certified banking store
from Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company announced that it opened Waco’s first LEED Silver certified retail banking store. The new store reflects Wells Fargo’s new building standards for its newly-built retail banking stores, designed to protect and conserve natural resources.
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USGBC Launches Performance Initiative
from Sustainable Industries
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in August 2009 made the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification more stringent when it began requiring ongoing performance data from buildings as a part of continued certification. "Plenty of people are content to simply point to these longstanding issues without offering a constructive way to address them," said Scot Horst, USGBC LEED senior vice president, in a statement.
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LCRA Redbud Center in Austin Achieves LEED Gold
LCRA has received LEED® Gold certification for Redbud Center, the new energy- and water-efficient 
building that serves as headquarters for managing the lower Colorado River.
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Austin Aims for Zero-Waste by 2040 - from Earth 911
Recently, the City of Austin, Texas, became the only city in the state with a goal to go zero waste. The Austin City Council approved a resolution to adopt the Zero Waste Strategic Plan, which will serve eliminate trash from area landfills by 2040. Initially proposed and developed in 2005, the initiative has gone through a number of revisions before it reached its final state. According to the revised plan, "Zero Waste is a design principle that goes beyond recycling.
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Austin Home Achieves Top Ratings in Three Green Building Programs
from Ecohome
Designing and constructing a house to garner top-level certification in four different green building programs might sound like a nightmare of paperwork, red tape, and regulations, but it was all in a day’s work for this Austin home’s verifier. For this contemporary house in the close-in, mixed-use Mueller community, verifier Chip Henderson compiled a simple three-page spreadsheet that included the mandatory requirements of each program.
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Tonala’calli is Austin’s First Certified LEED® Home - As a distinguished professor and Director of a highly regarded UT Petrophysics program, Carlos, with Laurel, a Biologist by education and translator by day, this gracious and modest couple have always been environmentally conscious. Winning awards for her landscaping and his Bonsai hobby at their previous home, creating this home is a dream coming true.
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Nobel Laureate, best-selling author, and the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary - the Honorable Al Gore will address thousands of Greenbuild attendees at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz. as part of the Greenbuild Opening Keynote & Celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Along with four terms in Congress, two terms in the Senate, and two terms as Vice President, Gore has written the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth and the just-released "Our Choice." Gore is chairman of the Emmy-award winning Current TV; chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing; is a member of the board of directors of Apple; a senior adviser to Google; and a partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He is also a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University and chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization designed to help solve the climate crisis.