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Wish I could attend this event:
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Old is the New Green:
Starbucks Center
Presented in Partnership with the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Seattle Branch.

This iconic building was built in 1912 by Union Pacific from Yesler Mill timber to house the Sears and Roebuck & Co. store. At 2.1 million square feet the LEED-EB certified building is the largest multi-tenant building in Washington State and helped to breathe life back into Seattle's SODO neighborhood.

Kevin Daniels, President of Nitze-Stagen and Daniels Development, will speak to the challenges of being a trail blazer in sustainable preservation and what made this project such a success. Don't miss the chance to get an insider view at what makes Starbucks' global headquarters a leader in green preservation.
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I'm bookmarking this Richard Florida/ Creative Class blog post since it's one I left a long(ish) comment on, this time around the need for buildings to be adaptable.

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In Vancouver, Wendy Waters (see http://allaboutcities.ca/stackable-affordable-fast-and-green-housing/) just posted something about using shipping containers for housing (not unknown here in Victoria, with Zigloo -- see http://www.zigloo.ca/index, right in the Fernwood neighbourhood), and presto-bingo, here's a post about using containers to create (one presumes and one hopes affordable) artists' workspaces! Yes, that would be welcome: someplace for the low-cash-flow creatives to live & work...

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Essay reflecting natural light usage in Victorian architecture by Spacing Wire's Dylan Reid. "Perhaps, in their appreciation for and management of natural light, our Victorian predecessors can remind us of an important consideration in city-building." I added a comment to his entry.

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