Today, Earth Day, marks the opening of Seattle's Bullitt Center, which has been anointed as one of the world's greenest commercial buildings by a new certification program that challenges the LEED system. "The Living Building Challenge bases its certifications on an entire year [...] looking at the structure as a whole rather than a series of green details," explains Gizmodo, and "plays to the concerns [...] that we need to think bigger, slower, and more holistically about green space." [NYT via Gizmodo]
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