Sustainable Development and Green Design—Who Is Leading the Green Initiative?
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Volume 133, Issue 4
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Acknowledgments
This work was undertaken under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation Grant Award CMS 0327878. Comments and discussion with Aurora Luscher Sharrard and the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University are gratefully acknowledged.
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Volume 133 • Issue 4 • October 2007
Pages: 265 - 269
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