San Francisco’s famous New Federal Building on 7th Street (near the pizza-free Flank) might be too green for Platinum LEED status, but at least it illuminates the city at night, what with all these lights burning brightly.
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What happened to Lights Out SF? What happened to Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin’s “lights out” proposal?
Should the Watt Cops be called?
Wouldn’t it be nice to live in this light house at Point Diablo in Marin County, California? You’d have great views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, that’s for sure.
Downsides of this location include the dangers of an occasional oil spill (like we had with the Cosco Busan) and the long walk up the stairs from where you’d dock your boat.
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The upside is that getting LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification would be a piece of cake. You’d already have renewable energy and water-efficient landscaping, so making a few alterations could get easily get you certified up to silver, gold, platinum, whatever.
All that’s left to do is make an offer, move in and then meet the neighbors.
Construction of the California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park proceeds apace. What is expected to be the largest and most visited green building in the world will have new admission prices that are 150% higher than before, but this thing should be popular nevertheless.
It’s not even finished yet but our new California Academy of Sciences building, “on track” to becoming LEED-certified, has some reason to leave its lights blazing.
Perhaps a team of electricians are testing circuits at night? Or maybe the CAS has money to burn what with admission prices going up something like 150%?
Compare this glare with the old-school, non-LEED certified lamp post on the right that would look familiar to the people that acted in Jitney Elopement, a short movie made by Charlie Chaplin in Golden Gate Park almost a hundred years ago.
Hello lamp post/ Whatcha knowing?/ I’ve come to watch your neighbor glowing.
You see, the street light is turned off, as it wasn’t really needed at that time of day.
LEED certification: It’s in the way that you use it.
Or maybe they were just testing their expensive solar photovoltaic system - it still seems like a waste of juice regardless.