Cloud 37: Lessons from LEED
Last week, one of my colleagues exclaimed that she was on Cloud 9, or rather, Cloud 37. She’s not come down since.
Over the last several years, Rice has undertaken an ambitious $1 billion construction program, and the bulk of these facilities are now open. We’re in celebration mode. Almost all of our new buildings will [...]
Water Efficiency, LEED, and the Attack of the Naysayer
“This LEED stuff doesn’t work, and it will cost you more!”
One of the challenges that campus sustainability professionals face is that we are charged to create change. Our very position requires that we suspend the status quo, and convince others to do so as well. Within any organization, there will always be those who are [...]
