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SEED Seeks to Advance Sustainability Measures

DALLAS-The nonprofit is leading the way for a design evaluation tool to rank buildings to add muscle to the USGBC's LEED. Leaders believe it's a right not just an option.

By Connie Gore | Updated on January 14, 2008

DALLAS-With LEED now part of everyday conversation, the sustainable revolution is ready to advance. The US Green Building Council has its own call to arms under way as does a lesser-known nationwide organization that has planted the seed to create an evaluation tool for the built environment.

The Social Economic Environmental Design Network, founded in 2005, held its first nationwide conference last Friday in Dallas. Its members are design practitioners, activists and theorists whose mission is to advance the right of every person to live in a socially, economically and environmentally healthy community.

SEED’s members hope to effect change by creating design principles for residential and commercial structures in settings that would be mutually beneficial to all, whether developer, owner, tenant, resident or neighbor. Among the outcomes would be the conservation of resources and minimized waste.

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