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New Orleans — Global Green USA, and actor Brad Pitt announced that they are teaming up to sponsor a design competition to provide an opportunity for architects, urban planners, designers, ecologists and students to put forward a creative yet practical vision for New Orleans neighborhoods. The Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans - Advancing the Sustainable Rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast - combines Global Green USA's commitment to green affordable housing, sustainable cities and climate solutions that work for communities, with Brad Pitt's passion for intelligent architecture.

Finalist presentations and jury review will occur prior to August 29, 2006, the one-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall. For more information, visit www.globalgreen.org.

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The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability

In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, 7group's principals and integrative design pioneer Bill Reed introduce design and construction professionals to the concepts of whole building design and whole systems.

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