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What a joke: auto-dependent corporate HQ in sprawl claims to be carbon neutral

Posted on July 05, 2008

According to a story in the New York Times: METTAWA, Ill. HSBC, the giant London-based bank, has moved its North American headquarters to a sprawling facility that it bills as carbon neutral in this hamlet about 30 miles north of Chicago. The 560,000-square-foot building, a five-story, H-shaped structure, was developed for more than $100 million on 29 acres with easy access to Interstate 94, between Chicago and Milwaukee . . . God, where to start. What we really have here is yet another high-tech building calling itself green but that warrants the label only if you complet...

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