Friday Roundup: Public Comment, Portability and Parking Lots
Starbucks re-imagines their stores (Photo credit: internets_dairy)
Our weekly collection of green building clips. Share your good reads of the week in the comments below.
- Fifth public comment for LEED v4 opens: Open Oct. 2 to Dec. 10, public comment allows anyone to view the most recent draft of the LEED rating systems and provide input. New features include a video on how to submit comments and ability to participate on LEEDuser.
- An Experimental New Starbucks Store: Tiny, Portable, And Hyper Local, FastCoDesign.com
- Enlightened business strategy: closing the sustainability gap, The Guardian: Companies that prosper in future will be the ones that take action on sustainability now.
- Solar panels to provide lots of cool, shady airport parking, Arizona Daily Star: Tucson International Airport reimagines the parking lot with vegetated walls, a solar-powered canopy, and more.
- LEED rating system for green building grows into global phenomenon, MercuryNews.com
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3 commentsLeave a comment
33 weeks 5 days ago
Kathryn West
Energy Ace
it's a beautiful store! I hope it stay where it is :) and yes alliterations are absolutely awesome.
33 weeks 6 days ago
Kathryn West
Energy Ace
I don't understand using the term "portable" is this new? re: MRP2
33 weeks 6 days ago
Jennifer Easton
Marketing & Communications Project Manager, U.S. Green Building Council
Hi Kat - Saw your comment on the Fast Co article as well. I believe the author is referring to the fact that the Starbucks unit was constructed in a factory & delivered in a truck - not portable as in mobile. I looped it in to the title of our Roundup because we like alliterations... :)