Baltimore Clinic Earns Platinum Certification

BALTIMORE — Featuring rain gardens, a heat recovery wheel, and natural lighting in 75 percent of its offices, the Highlandtown Healthy Living Center medical office building now also proudly displays a LEED Platinum placard.
 
The newly opened 32,000-square-foot clinic, part of the Baltimore Medical System, one of six such centers operated by BMS, offers patient care and education to approximately 22,000 people in around Highlandtown – an East Baltimore neighborhood.
 
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Scott Arboretum Green Roof Tour

by KYWs Phran Novelli These days, GREEN is more than a color, it also means smart and sustainable in an environmental way. Green roofs are all that a way to grow plants on top of a building; to help absorb all the water that falls on vast expanses of roof, and save energy by regulating […]

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Green leadership cooperation between Korea and Australia

Green growth and climate change experts from the Republic of Korea are in Australia as part of a University of Sydney managed leadership program. They have spent the past two days in Canberra meeting with Australian government officials to discuss green policies, climate change and renewable resource strategies.

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