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...name. Consultants from the Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are helping residents build new houses that are up to 50% more energy efficient than their old ones. In early January, the city council approved a plan that would make all public buildings in Greensburg conform to the platinum rating of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design) standards--something no American town has ever tried. Ron Shank's car dealership will be rebuilt as a model green facility...
Harvard’s construction of a new campus in Allston, which will feature a host of environmentally-sensitive elements, is one of the largest new projects being erected in Boston. Faust noted that the University will conform to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Standard...
...built in accordance with Stanford’s own sustainability guidelines, the university will not seek certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). In contrast, as Harvard expands into Allston, it has committed that all buildings and landscapes will conform to a LEED Gold Standard, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...Zapatero for 2005's mass regularization of immigrants, arguing that they "couldn't all fit." Borrowing a page from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rajoy also repeated his party's call for greater "control and order" of immigrants, promising, if elected, to require them to sign a contract agreeing to conform to "Spanish values...
...have left no good option. "I didn't want direct intervention before a precise legal framework" had been outlined, Sarkozy said Tuesday, insisting that the U.N. vote changed the equation. "We're no longer in what was called Françafrique. There are international rules, and I want to conform to them...