From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:01:53 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Greening Portland, Oregon's Pearl District |
Portland Neighborhood Tries For Green Certification BY ROB MANNING Oregon Public Broadcasting March 30, 2009For years, green builders across the Northwest have competed over who's got the most sustainable new high-rise. Now, for builders who think bigger, there's a new game in town. Rob Manning reports on attempts to get the highest possible green certification for a whole Portland neighborhood. LEED certification is a green stamp of approval handed out by the U.S. Green Building council. And LEED for neighborhood design, or LEED-ND -- begins with location. And this location - just north of what Portlanders think of as the Pearl District - was a train yard, a few years ago. John Meadows is with Boora Architects.John Meadows: "There was 30-some acres of railyard and brownfield and it was being abandoned because the industry it served no longer existed. It is important to the LEED N-D story that there's the clean-up and re-use of a brownfield, transforming it into something healthy." ... For the entire story, see http://news.opb.org/article/4629-portland-neighborhood-tries-green-certification/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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