IN THIS ISSUE:

*AIA's top 10 green building projects

*Green Building Focus

..Two new studies on green building value

..Report: Latest green building technologies

*Proposed CA law requires zero net energy homes by 2020

*Colleges increasingly going green

*Brainstorming Portland’s greenest of buildings

*Indian River to be the fourth Florida county to receive green designation

*From Green Buildings to Green Cities in the U.S. and China: conference, May 1, in San Francisco

*Notable green building projects...

..San Francisco’s Orchard Hotel is fourth in the world to get LEED-EB certification

..Montage Beverly Hills awarded LEED gold

..Biodiesel to fuel “World’s Greenest Building” in Oregon

..Drury to construct new LEED Silver event center

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