FacilityBlog » IEQ http://www.todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog The Premier Facility Management Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:50:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 LEED Gold for Pollution Leaders? http://www.todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/2008/08/leed-gold-for-pollution-leaders.html http://www.todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/2008/08/leed-gold-for-pollution-leaders.html#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:56:42 +0000 Heidi Schwartz http://todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/?p=3537 Olympic athletes were prepared to don respirators and China was forced to seed clouds, idle factories and ban vehicles to temporarily lift a pollution fog that enveloped Beijing as recently as last month.

Very interesting (albeit ironic) for USGBC to award their “gold medal” for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design to a country recognized as one of the planet’s top polluters.  

Thus proving that the politics of “green” have circled the globe and that lucrative consulting proposals can be generated in multiple languages and paid in a variety of currencies…

Poor Richard

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Beijing Air Improves, Olympic Village Earns LEED Gold

BEIJING, China, August 13, 2008 – Beijing’s air quality has improved, with the sky clearly visible today

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