Leith Sharp, director of the school's "Green Campus Initiative, " says the secret to its success is a business model that encourages Harvard's departments and schools to turn their environmental projects into financial savings.

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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!

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Off-campus housing gets the green light, provided rent and food don't surpass the estimated off-campus expenses published by the university.

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The concept has been around for several years, but until now most Green Houses have shared a campus with sister care facilities, often large, more traditional nursing homes.

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Docking stations will include the university campus at Boughton Green Road, the railway station, the entrance to Beckets Park, the Skatepark at Midsummer Meadow, Brackmills and the new bus interchange.

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Spread over nine equally-weighted categories, the scorecard rates colleges on factors like sustainable policies by administration, commitment to energy efficiency and conservation, food and recycling policies, campus-wide green building initiatives, student involvement, alternative transportation.

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Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into an enormous database being created by Google.

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She took a green flatboat across the 4-feet of water on the school's campus to Tulane's boundary.

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The Infosys campus, on the outskirts of dust-choked Bangalore, is an oasis of manicured green lawns, swimming pools, gyms and tennis courts.

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