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Sustainable Chicago and Generation Green

From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
Length: 30:00

When it comes to buildings, Chicago has already done "tallest, biggest, and longest." Now Chicago wants to be the "greenest". We'll find out how they're raising the bar for all the other cities aiming for that same distinction. Plus: From America's biggest green-building expo, do-it-yourself 3D energy & carbon modeling -- dark sunglasses for buildings -- and devices that charge themselves up. Read the full description.

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Plus: From America's biggest green-building expo, do-it-yourself 3D energy & carbon modeling -- dark sunglasses for buildings -- and devices that charge themselves up.

Host Denis Du Bois overviews Chicago's green initiatives, then interviews the developers of Chicago's 215 West Building, and executives from Autodesk, enOcean Alliance, Verve, Daintree, BuildingIQ, Sage Electrochromics and Sunoptics.

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Piece Description

Plus: From America's biggest green-building expo, do-it-yourself 3D energy & carbon modeling -- dark sunglasses for buildings -- and devices that charge themselves up.

Host Denis Du Bois overviews Chicago's green initiatives, then interviews the developers of Chicago's 215 West Building, and executives from Autodesk, enOcean Alliance, Verve, Daintree, BuildingIQ, Sage Electrochromics and Sunoptics.

Transcript

Full transcript at http://energypriorities.com/entries/2010/12/greenbuild_2010.php with photos (stations are welcome to post photos on station web sites).
Read the full transcript

Timing and Cues

00:00 A Segment - BB - IC (anncr): "From Chicago this is a special..."
00:59 Silence less than 1 second, for News Break to be inserted
01:00 B Segment - IC (host): "This is Energy Priorities..."
12:15 Break :30 with underwriting credit followed by :15 music bed before IC. Cut in here for longer local break if desired.
12:45 return, IC (host): "This is Energy Priorities..."
29:31 SOC followed by music bed
29:59 Music OUT

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Sweet Home Chicago	Peter Green	The Best of Peter Green Splinter Group.	Snapper Music	1997	00:30
Things Can't Stay the Same	Doc Terry	Chicago Blues.	JSP Records	1997	00:30