Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
three months ago and you know, it's like anything
else, it's almost worrisome that green may become a
fad and not a fact. And I think that that -- but I
don't think that that's going to happen. But OBO
actually definitely has a great opportunity to be
greener than green, because of you're building in
many, many different climates, many, many different
cultures. And I think it would be great to see how
even an increase in the greenness of embassies could
be a huge impact in all of these places.
GENERAL WILLIAMS: Thank you. Is there
another presenter? Okay, go.
MS. GOSHOW: If you could go back to the
first slide that we had. I think it's kind of a
summary slide of everything that OBO is already
doing. And Donna had asked me to look into carbon
offsets. And what I'm trying to do is trying to
present a complete picture in very simple terms so
everyone can understand.
We all studied in high school or junior
high biology that plants eat carbon dioxide and they
give off oxygen. And that's a great thing because
we need oxygen and we give off carbon dioxide. It's
a very cool thing, right? Very balanced. And so
the idea with offsets is as we are destroying the
Free State Reporting, Inc.
1378 Cape St. Claire Road
Annapolis, MD 21409
(410) 974-0947
94