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!!