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legitimate, mainline with USGB strategies, and in
fact are pushing to have a silver certificate on all
of our buildings. In fact, we build into the
standard embassy design what we believe are
sufficient points to at least get bronze or the base
level. And we encourage our designers to try to
strive for silver. And I think we'll be doing that
very, very shortly.
But I want to get back to a comment that
Suman made early on when she asked George how does
what you're proposing here tie into all of the other
things that are going on in this area? And that's
been the real challenge for me. There's a little
big of green hysteria going on now. And that's a
good thing. We're getting cables from posts every
day. We have thought about things that we can do to
save energy, to improve performance, and we wanted
to set up an environment that encouraged that and
responded to that in a real positive way.
So we developed something, you might go to
our first slide, Mike. Yes, why don't you pull out
the whole thing?
In order to sort of get all of the energy
focused in one direction, I decided at least in my
small world to establish something that I call a
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