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Duluth, Minnesota
Green Building
The independent nonprofit Hartley Nature Center at Hartley Park teaches Duluth youth about nature in an eco-friendly building, which has a geothermal heat pump and solar panels that are plugged in to Minnesota Power's grid to sell back excess energy. Duluth's SMDC First Street clinic is the first medical center in the state and the largest in the country at the time of certification to achieve LEED-gold certification.
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