{"id":154,"date":"2010-04-01T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:20:20","slug":"denver-ranks-4th-for-energy-star-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/denver-ranks-4th-for-energy-star-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Ranks 4th for ENERGY STAR Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Denver Ranks 4th of U.S. Cities with ENERGY STAR  Buildings<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Green Denver\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/Green-Denver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of  U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient  buildings in 2009\u2013 buildings that have earned EPA\u2019s ENERGY STAR label.<\/p>\n<p>During the past year, Denver jumped from seventh to fourth place, and  now boasts 136 ENERGY STAR commercial buildings.\u00a0 Los Angeles, CA;  Washington, DC; and San Francisco, CA, round the top three cities.\u00a0  ENERGY STAR buildings typically use 35 percent less energy and emit 35  percent less greenhouse gases than average buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Buildings accounted for 52% of Denver\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions in a  2007 study.  Commercial and industrial buildings contributed 35% alone.   With 31.5 million square feet of floor space under the ENERGY STAR  label, Denver now is better positioned to meet its 2012 greenhouse gas  reduction goals of 10% per capita below 1990 levels.<\/p>\n<p>Although most city government buildings such as police and fire  stations, recreation centers and libraries are not ratable in the  program, Denver currently has two ENERGY STAR office buildings, and two  more pending.  By Executive Order, new city office buildings are  required to be designed to achieve the ENERGY STAR rating.<\/p>\n<p>A program to recognize the Denver area\u2019s most energy and water  efficient office buildings and hotels will be launched this summer.   \u201cWatts to Water,\u201d sponsored by Denver, the Downtown Denver Partnership,  the Denver Metro BOMA, Xcel Energy, Denver Water and U.S. EPA, is  expected to further drive energy and water savings in the region.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Ranks 4th of U.S. Cities with ENERGY STAR Buildings The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings in 2009\u2013 buildings that have earned EPA\u2019s ENERGY STAR label. During the past year, Denver jumped from seventh to fourth place, and now boasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}