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their children (ages 10 and up) to help clean the banks of the Charles. They will also offer tours of the Blackstone Complex, Harvard’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum building...
Foolishly Good Deal. San Francisco's two LEED-certified Orchard Hotels are offering rooms for a dollar starting April Fool's Day, for the entire month. You won't find this offer mentioned on the hotels' website, but if you hit the site at 10 a.m. on April 1 and type in the promotional code "Fool!" you can score one of the two $1 rooms offered each night in April. Once the 60 allotted rooms are sold out, the offer will be closed. Additional nights begin at $159. 466 Bush Street (Orchard Garden Hotel) or 665 Bush Street (Orchard Hotel...
Heavenly Beds in Houston. Starwood's new extended-stay brand, Element, has opened in Houston. The LEED-certified hotel has complimentary breakfast, a fitness center, a pool and in-room kitchens. Best of all, since Element is part of the Westin brand, it also features the trademark Heavenly Bed. As part of the opening, Element has discounted rates starting at $149 per night, with a two-night minimum stay required. The rates are valid through April 30, 2009. Use code GRANDOP to book. 14555 Vintage Preserve Parkway, Houston...
...completed Midtown Manhattan headquarters. The skyscraper will have floor-to-ceiling insulating glass walls, automatic light dimming, water recycling, air filtration and on-site power generation. Those green features have helped make the BoA Tower the first skyscraper to win a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating, the highest possible such award. They also helped ensure that the tower won't be cheap - the project is estimated to cost about $1 billion. (Read "Building Materials: Cementing the Future...
...which the federal stimulus package will include increased funding (it will also provide money for improving the energy efficiency of existing homes). In Miami, the nonprofit Carrfour Supportive Housing is building the 145-unit Verde Gardens Apartment building; the project will use green modular wall systems and aim for LEED certification. In Chicago, the Resurrection Homes project offers affordable green housing, and the soon to be completed Victory Centre will include green apartments for low-income seniors. And nationwide, the nonprofit Enterprise Communities Partners has helped create or preserve more than 320 inexpensive green housing developments, from Portland to Jacksonville...