USGBC Wants 100,000 LEED Building in Next Year – Starbucks Joins Effort
The U.S. Green Building Council has set a goal of 100,000 LEED certified buildings by next year, and although the green building label is far from achieving that goal, Starbucks yesterday announced its membership in a USGBC-launched project that aims to help move the ball forward more rapidly.
As part of Greenbuild 2009, the coffee giant said that it will be one of the first companies to take part in the USGBC's Volume Certification Program, a pilot that will test the ability to rapidly certify a large number of buildings as LEED-ready when built to the same specifications.
[Read more via Greener Buildings]
[...] In our current social environment, where corporate participation in green programs is expected, it is difficult to believe that a large corporation would a eschew recycling. It is especially confounding when that corporation is a major contributor of refuse. Unbelievably, this is exactly what is happening with the Starbucks Coffee Company. [...]
Starbucks has always been ahead of the game when it comes to sustainability. I hope they fulfill their end of the deal here and help the USGBC attain their goal!
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