, Los Angeles, CA

Located just ten minutes northeast of downtown Los Angeles, Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is a 282-acre urban wilderness owned by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The Audubon Center at Debs Park occupies 17 acres of the park, leased from the City.

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, Annapolis, MD

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, an environmental advocacy, restoration, and education organization, is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland.

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, Long Beach, CA

Built to accommodate students who were previously bused to schools outside their neighborhood, Cesar Chavez Elementary School is the Long Beach Unified School District's first school built using California's Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) green design principles. The K-5 school, a major project in the City of Long Beach's downtown redevelopment zone, includes joint-use spaces for the City's Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department and for a Long Beach Memorial Hospital Children's Clinic to support community and student wellness programs. These community uses were included to a catalyze redevelopment and encourage community unity and pride.

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, Chicago, IL

Designed by Chicago-based Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, the building uses solar and geothermal energy, a rooftop garden, and a natural habitat to filter storm water. The city invested $9 million in clean-up costs and another $5.4 million toward construction and renovation. The 1952 building is surrounded by a 17-acre site that was formerly the Sacramento Crushing Corporation, a construction materials recycler. The company was closed in 1996 after 600,000 cubic yards of waste were discovered on the site. The money for the Chicago Center for Green Technology came from a settlement with the Commonwealth Edison Company.

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, Santa Monica, CA

Located at the corner of a main off-ramp of the Santa Monica freeway, Colorado Court's highly visible position makes it a gateway to the city. The 44-unit, five-story building is the first affordable-housing project in the United States to be 100% energy neutral. This project is an excellent model of sustainable development in an urban environment, provides a model for private/public partnerships that benefit the community, and promotes diversity in an urban environment through strategically placed affordable housing.

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101 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, Washington

This modular "pavilion in the park" was designed to be demountable and transportable for future disassembly and reassembly at multiple future locations. Its first use was for an exhibit telling the story of Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood—its past, present, and future.

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, Silver Spring, MD

Eastern Village Cohousing (EVC) is a green building that represents a new direction in mixed-income, urban, residential development. Located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, it consists of 56 residential condominium units. Cohousing communities such as EVC constitute small-scale neighborhoods providing balance between personal privacy and community living, wherein neighbors share in community activities, decision-making, work, and play. Residents have been involved from the beginning of the project, helping to plan and program EVC, and will participate to a high degree in the management of the community.

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, Sarasota, FL

The Florida House Learning Center demonstrates "earth-friendly" conservation technology and design for living in southwest Florida. The one-story house is a modernized "Old Florida Cracker" style with two or three bedrooms, two baths, and extensive indoor and outdoor spaces. It uses approximately half the water and electricity of a typical home. The emphasis of the house is on environmentally responsible construction without sacrificing livability.

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, Hanover, NH

The Hanover House uses active and passive solar systems and high efficiency, resulting in extremely low energy consumption. It is a two-story, wood-framed, single-family residence built for a middle-aged couple with no children. The house has a basement and garage; three-quarters of the window area for the house is on the south side for passive solar gain. No combustion is used; energy needs not provided in solar gain are provided with electricity.

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, Hancock, NH

The scope of the work includes the renovation of an existing building. The main portion of the building is three stories with a basement. Two two-story wings flank each side of the main building; one has a full basement that is accessible at grade, and the other has only a partial basement.

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, Zeeland, MI

The goal of the Herman Miller MarketPlace was to create a prototype office environment that supports progressive business-place thinking within a sustainable framework. The expectation of this 95,000-square-foot speculative office was nothing less than that it be a great place to work.

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, Evanston, IL

This single-family residence on Lake Michigan was designed to take advantage of the dramatic views of Lake Michigan. In addition to providing living space for its owners, the home also serves as a meeting location for several local nonprofit organizations.

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, Green Bay, WI

The new two-story academic building at the University of Wisconson-Green Bay serves as a new campus center housing 20 classrooms, representing about half of all classroom space on campus.

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, Berkeley, CA

The Molecular Foundry, owned by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), is a state-of-the art user laboratory for nanoscale materials research. The facility is one of five U.S. Department of Energy Nanoscale Science Research Centers, and the only one on the west coast.

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, Reston, VA

The new headquarters for the National Wildlife Federation is a 95,000 ft2 (8,800 m2) office building located in Reston, Virginia, adjacent to the 475-acre (190 ha) Lake Fairfax Park.

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7390 Cottonwood Street, Pemberton, British Columbia

Key Sustainability Features

• Geothermal system with variable refrigerant flow heating and cooling
• Water and energy conservation
• Passive design
• Locally-sourced materials and trades

Within easy walking distance of the town core, the Pemberton Community Centre is a multi-use facility housing the Pemberton and District Public Library as well as a Community and Fitness Centre. It incorporates state-of-the art building technology and design in order to maximize energy efficiency and enhance the quality and flexibility of the community space.

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, Pittsburgh, PA

PNC Firstside Center was built on a brownfield site in the central business district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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, Gainesville, FL

Rinker Hall is a leadership facility within the University of Florida's College of Design and Construction, which includes 1,500 students and 100 faculty members. Rinker Hall serves the students of the School of Building Construction, the nation's oldest and most recognized program of this type. Accommodating 450 students, the building includes a mix of classrooms, teaching labs, construction labs, faculty and administrative offices, and student facilities.

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, Portland, OR

Roberts Hall was designed along with two other new dormitories: East Hall and West Hall. The new buildings help fulfill the college's vision to blend their liberal arts campus with a magnificent natural environment. The three new buildings comprise the first phase of an overall master plan for the south residential campus that will ultimately house more than 1000 students. Responding to the needs of college juniors and seniors, these new residence halls were designed to provide a degree of privacy while creating a variety of spaces for social interaction.

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, San Mateo, CA

The San Mateo County Forensic Laboratory and Coroner's Office is a highly secure and technologically innovative laboratory facility designed to provide a superior workplace, flexibility to accommodate changing needs, and advanced resource efficiency. The facility houses eight distinct forensic laboratories and the coroner's office.

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, St. Paul, MN

Science House serves as a public environmental experiment facility, classroom, and special event space for the Science Museum of Minnesota's outdoor science park, the Big Back Yard. Science House was designed to be a zero-energy building: that is, the building generates, through its 8.8-kilowatt photovoltaic system, more energy than it consumes on an annual basis.

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, Concord, NH

Founded by a handful of concerned citizens in 1901, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) has today grown into one of the country's most effective statewide land conservation groups. The addition currently houses six other nonprofit organizations, in addition to providing office space for SPNHF. In keeping with the organization's mission and the nature of its work, the new French Wing addition to its Concord headquarters showcases a number of innovations from the realms of conservation and sustainable design.

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, Washington, DC

Takoma Village Cohousing, located in northwest Washington, DC, consists of 43 one- to four-bedroom attached flats and townhouse units plus a 4,800 ft2 (450 m2) shared building known as the "Common House" surrounding common green space. It is DC's first cohousing project, one of only 11 demonstration sites for HUD's PATH program, through which all 43 units were awarded Energy Star Homes Certification.

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401 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC

Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) manages real estate for the Federal Government amounting to 6.7 million m2 of space. The green fit-up for 401 Burrard is an example of an organization taking incremental steps towards green design.

The fit-up featured the installation of several green flooring options including natural wood, bamboo, cork, linoleum, stained concrete, ceramic tiles, and recycled content, low-emission carpets. This allows PWGSC to test the performance of these materials over time, informing the design of future buildings.

The building is situated downtown, giving staff the option to take public transportation to work.

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, Arlington, VA

The Nature Conservancy's new headquarters is an eight-story 172,000 ft2 (16,000 m2) office building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia. The Conservancy occupies six floors and leases two floors, which provide room for growth. Parking is accommodated in a garage below the building; the remainder of the site has been transformed into a 1/2-acre (0.2 ha) landscaped park.

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, San Francisco, CA

The Thoreau Center for Sustainability, located in the rehabilitated historic wards of the Letterman General Hospital, is the first public/private partnership project completed at the new Presidio National Park. The 73,000 ft2 (6,800 m2) complex is the new home for nonprofit organizations focused on environmental sustainable development issues. This design addresses sustainable development within the constraints of a historic landmark structure.

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, South Royalton, VT

Vermont Law School's James L. and Evelena S. Oakes Hall is the law school's primary classroom facility. The building is set on the banks of the White River and houses eight classrooms, a courtroom, a student lounge, and an outdoor deck.

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, Gay Head, MA

The Wampanoag Tribal Multi-Purpose Building serves as an administrative, educational, and social center for the Wampanoag tribe, which has inhabited Martha's Vineyard for hundreds of years.

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, Whitman, MA

Whitman-Hanson has many "smart building" features, such as HVAC systems that detect the number of occupants and adjust HVAC settings. This project incorporates more sensors and controls than the average school building, and requires less human intervention. Other "smart building" technologies include interactive electronic white boards for the classrooms and video broadcasting.

The building was constructed to alleviate overcrowding at the old facility. The new building has been designed to use 39% less energy than a baseline building, equating to estimated savings of up to $100,000 per year in operation costs.

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