Saturday, December 6, 2008

STARs rating system for transportation being developed

http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?&c=44270&a=217361

STARS - It's LEED's for Transportation

Why create a Sustainable Transportation and Access Rating System? Transportation has major economic, environmental and social implications. The ability to provide access to goods and services is fundamental to economic health and social equity, but current transportation practices are financially and envrionmentally unsustainable. Transportation is a major source of North American climate pollution, and lags the electricity generation and building secotrs in shrinking its carbon footprint.....



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