Green Options » 2007 Living Building Competition http://greenoptions.com/tag/2007-living-building-competition Posts tagged '2007 Living Building Competition' Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:28:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Moving Beyond LEED http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/01/01/moving-beyond-leed/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/01/01/moving-beyond-leed/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:28:03 +0000 Kristin Dispenza http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/01/01/moving-beyond-leed/ The Living Building Challenge is represented by a flower.The Cascadia Region Green Building Council (covering Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia) is already attempting to push beyond the LEED envelope by issuing its Living Building Challenge.

This challenge sets a new standard for what it means to be green. Its icon is a vibrant orange flower, meant to suggest elegance and efficiency; the flower, like a pie graph, is broken into parts, or petals. The 6 petals correspond to performance measures in the built environment:

  • Site
  • Materials
  • Energy
  • Indoor Quality
  • Water
  • Beauty and Inspiration

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