Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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population believes that government should take a
lead on reducing global warming, really. And that
all over, including the District of Columbia, laws
are being passed where private and public sector
buildings have to meet certain lead design criteria.
And taxpayers willing to pay for these, which is
another thing that is really encouraging. Even in
counties, even in capital projects in our local
counties, we see, you know, in Montgomery County, a
lot of funding coming in for green building design.
And OBO, of course, has special challenges,
but with the new Sofia, Bulgaria building, I think
it can be a great model for your other buildings.
Next slide. The latest of course, is
carbon neutral goals. And there are a number of
large organizations, you know, probably comparable
to OBO, like Yahoo and Google. I think Google is
the first that is going to be carbon neutral by
2007, MIT and Harvard by 2010. And I think these
are very aggressive goals, but there are big
challenges to your program in becoming carbon
neutral because of --
I guess another thing I don't understand
very much, but I guess the Buy American Act makes it
not possible to buy things locally and put them in
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