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Portland Commits to the World's Greenest Office Building
The Oregon Sustainability Center seeks to become America’s first project to meet the Living Building Challenge
Leave it to a city both satirized and celebrated for its earnest quirkiness to buck the trend.
While governments from Washington to Athens hack their budgets, and Wall Street’s fervor for solar and other alternative power companies wanes amid bankruptcies and falling stocks, last week Portland’s city council affirmed its commitment to the $62 million Oregon Sustainability Center, a public-private partnership to construct what would be the world’s greenest office building.