Green Building Law Blog : Green Building Lawyer & Attorney : Shari Shapiro: Calliope Communications, LLC

GBLB has been named one of the top 50 Environmental and Climate Change blogs by Lexis Nexis, and has been nominated for a Jackson Design and Remodeling Annual Industry Blogger Award in the Green Category. 

For the Lexis Nexis blogs, you can comment on the best blogs list until February 28 here. Once the comments have been compiled, the Lexis Nexis community will vote for the best blog. 

For the Jackson Design and Remodeling competition, voting will start March 4, 2011 and closes on April 15, 2011.

Thanks to our great readers who nominated us and for voting for GBLB for best blog!

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Long the city of high crime, poverty and neglect by the federal government which calls it home, Washington D.C. has passed some of the most progressive sustainability regulations in the country since 2006. For example in December 2006, Washington mandated, among other things, that private buildings 50,000 square feet or larger have to submit a checklist of green features by 2009, and meet LEED NC 2.2 standards by 2012. In addition to green building regulations, Washington has enacted comprehensive sustainability legislation, including a Clean and Affordable Energy Act, a Green Summer Jobs bill, a Climate Initiative and stormwater and water quality regulations.

I spend a lot of time counseling legislators on how to get legislation -- often far less comprehensive -- enacted, so I wanted to speak to the team behind the Washington legislation to find out what was working and what was not, and how it all got legislated in the first place. Alan Heymann, public information officer for the District Department of the Environment (DDOE), set up a conference with Brendan Shane, director of the Office of Policy and Sustainability, Shane Farthing, development coordinator, and Stella Tarnay, green building coordinator, for an inside look at the state of sustainability in the nation's capital.
 

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