[CPEO-BIF] Greening Portland, Oregon's Pearl District

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Portland Neighborhood Tries For Green Certification

BY ROB MANNING
Oregon Public Broadcasting
March 30, 2009

For 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/

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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



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