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New Exhibit Explores Green Neighborhood Design
“Neighborhoods Go Green! Scaling up Sustainability” features LEED for Neighborhood Development
projects; currently on exhibit at AIA’s Washington, DC headquarters
Washington, DC – (March 15, 2011) – Today, the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC)
“Neighborhoods Go Green! Scaling up Sustainability” exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit uses
LEED for Neighborhood Development, the first comprehensive benchmark for green neighborhood
design, as a framework to explore the key elements of a sustainable community. Co-curated by USGBC,
the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and Farr Associates, “Neighborhoods Go Green!” is on
display at the Washington, DC headquarters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
“’Neighborhoods Go Green!’ celebrates the projects around the world that are helping transform our
neighborhoods into walkable, sustainable and economically thriving communities,” said Rick Fedrizzi,
President, CEO & Founding Chair, USGBC. “The exhibit highlights the link between the importance of
sustainability and the places where we all live and work.”
LEED for Neighborhood Development, launched in 2010, integrates the principles of smart growth, new
urbanism and green building, while benefitting communities by reducing urban sprawl, increasing
transportation choices and decreasing automobile dependence, encouraging healthy living, and
protecting threatened species. One hundred projects have completed at least one stage of certification in
the pilot program and about 75 projects have registered under the recently launched program.
Featuring text, photographs, and illustrations representing the features of a model green neighborhood,
the exhibit showcases successful local and national LEED-certified projects, including Twinbrook Station
in Rockville, Md., and Renaissance Place at Grand in St. Louis, Mo. Unique to the DC exhibit is the
Region Challenge, designed to encourage dialogue amongst local stakeholders and potentially initiate
neighborhood-specific policy.
The inaugural exhibit opened last November at the Chicago Architecture Foundation in conjunction with
USGBC’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, and will continue to tour the U.S. following its stop
in the District. To learn more about the exhibit, on display until April 21, 2011, visit www.usgbc.org/ngg
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for our nation
through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings.
With a community comprising 79 local affiliates, 16,000 member companies and organizations, and more
than 162,000 LEED Professional Credential holders, USGBC is the driving force of an industry that is
projected to contribute $554 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product from 2009-2013. USGBC leads a
diverse constituency of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofit organizations, elected
officials and concerned citizens, and teachers and students.
Buildings in the United States are responsible for 39% of CO2 emissions, 40% of energy consumption,
13% water consumption and 15% of GDP per year, making green building a source of significant
economic and environmental opportunity. Greater building efficiency can meet 85% of future U.S.