Reducing State Department’s environmental footprint Embassy Amman was opened in 1992. Those familiar with LEED know it is much harder to get an existing building certified than new construction. Mindful of severely limited natural resources, notably energy and water in Jordan, U.S. Embassy Amman has made a series of improvements over the past twenty years [...]
With the active support of Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich and the entire embassy community, the Canberra Greening Initiative (CGI) has embarked on an ambitious plan to foment positive change across the organization in alignment with Greening Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) core objectives and the Department’s Agency Sustainability Plan. Drawing on the collective enthusiasm and talents of numerous [...]
Sweden, a country of 9.5 million people, is a leader in environmental sustainability and clean technology, having reduced its use of oil for energy purposes from 75 to 30 percent since the 1970s and made other advances. To draw on Sweden’s experience, the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm has for several years fostered U.S.-Swedish partnerships on [...]
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