Designers Learn from Nature to Achieve a Platinum-Perfect Building

LOS ANGELES, Nov 10, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- USGBC Awards LEED Platinum to Los Angeles' Center for Community Forestry
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded its highest level of recognition, LEED(R) Platinum certification, to the Conference Center at the newly re-opened TreePeople Center for Community Forestry. TreePeople, an environmental non-profit, has served the Los Angeles region for 35 years with the goal of "helping nature heal our cities." The state-of-the-art Conference Center provides a gathering place for local, national, and international leaders to create healthy, sustainable cities.
The Conference Center is the focal point for the Center for Community Forestry, a four-acre environmental educational campus located in L.A.'s Coldwater Canyon Park. Furthering TreePeople's mission to provide environmental and watershed education to the public, the Conference Center utilizes natural principles to minimize the building's need for imported heating, cooling, energy and water.