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building B’s total energy reduction of 58 percent. Fifteen percent of the build-
ing’s materials contain recycled content.*

The Larger Picture

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the buildings sector is critical to our ability to
combat global warming. Energy efficient design and operations of buildings, along with
onsite renewable energy production are a strong part of the answer to the challenge to

*Green Giant: Biodesign Institute Goes Platinum, Arizona State University, July 31, 2007 [online],
http://asunews.asu.edu/node/689, accessed April 2008. David Sokol, Arizona State University Biodesign
Institute, Green Source [online], http://greensource.construction.com/projects/0801_ArizonaStateUniversity.asp,
accessed April 2008.