This is no joke! Seriously, a 50,000 square feet of office
space is getting ready to operate completely off the grid, using all that
nature has to offer. It is going to be one of the finest showcasing of the
Living Building Challenge.
Seattle
has been peaking in so many green ways, the list is almost endless. A pristine
city with aware citizens is surely making a big difference in cleaning up the
carbon soot our consumer society has smothered itself into. While the country
is now abuzz with the growing zest for getting LEED certified (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) for building green, a Seattle company surprises the country with
its super green initiative in building the least polluting office space to
date. The proposed Bulitt
Center’s carbon footprint
is projected to be exactly half as much of a LEED-certified building! Almost
impossible to imagine, the office is integrating all possible energy saving
attributes for itself and offering the world a model worth vying to copy, for
copying has always been a way of flattery. Earning a full-page attention of the
current issue of the Time (July 2, 2012) is testimony to its promise of living
off the grid!
The frog does not drink up all the water of the pond in
which it lives, says the adage. The Bulitt Center is surely gearing up to be
the frog of its kind in the world of architectural splendor to not suck up any
drop from its own cozy energy pool of its city. What are you doing about your
own house? Any positive changes? Remember, every little counts!!
