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"Can a four-level house with a three-car garage and a kitchen full of energy-hungry Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances truly qualify as a model of environmental responsibility?
Photo by Douglas Healey
for The New York Times
NRDC is trying to prove that it can, by applying for LEED certification."
NRDC?! The Natural Resources Defense Council?! Say it ain't so! It ain't so. This NRDC is NRDC Residential — a division of the National Realty and Development Corporation. Read the article in the New York Times.

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