Food.Fun.Stuff: Founding Farmers is Certified Gold

Again, Congrats to Founding Farmers today! For those of you who missed it from last week, JKGF posted about Founding Farmers receiving certification as the first LEED Gold full-service, upscale casual restaurant in the U.S. If you missed the post, here it is (*Circa April 15, 2009...) :

Going green, we love it! Kudos to Founding Farmers who will become the first Certified restaurant in the District and the first LEED (*Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold full-service, upscale-casual restaurant in the U.S. Good stuff Founding Farmers;-) LEED is the USGBC's (*U.S. Green Building Council) rating system for designing and constructing the world's greenest, most energy efficient, high performing buildings and interior spaces. LEED based their decision on Founding Farmers having a number of green design and construction features that positively impact the project and the community including having: Energy Star Appliances, higher efficient HVAC System and Green Power, just to name a few.

Congrats to Founding Farmers!!

*The certification becomes official on Wednesday, April 22 which is also Earth Day 2009:-)

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