Is Vegas Getting Green Attention?

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I know that some of you have probably been to Las Vegas, also know as Sin City. Would you of ever thought with all of the huge buildings and millions of amazing lights that they were getting any green energy attention at all? Well, they are. They are getting a bit of scrutiny along with it though. A place called, City Center, one of MGM Mirage’s soon to be opened resorts is the head of a lot of this scrutiny. This place is huge, at 67 acres of resort grounds. This place has been given a high honor by the U.S. Green Building Council. This honor came at a price and some major attention. MGM designed this building to operate with much less power consumption than someone who knew a ton about energy efficiency in large scale buildings and structures would think. The main reason for all the negative attention is because many “green” leaders wonder how they can give them any applause because Las Vegas is in the middle of the darn dessert. Which leads them believe that this positive attention is purely publicity stunt and plum ridiculous. Some of the local Las Vegas business owners say that it helps sustainability. Even though they are building these massive resorts in the middle of the dessert, they still opted to try and make wise expensive decisions for less energy consumption.

My first reaction to this was that many of these places are going too be developed in Vegas anyways. There is obviously a ton of money to make over there so they will continue to build and build. As long as they are making as wise of a choice as they can and not wasting to awful much of our natural resources, keep on doing what your doing.

I can’t wait to visit this place and see it for myself. Las Vegas has become a landmark for the United States and is visited every single day by tourist all over the world. Vegas generates large amounts of cash each year and lots of it is dispersed all through our economy via taxes. With that being said, I think that since they are building there anyways it is a great idea to spend a little bit more money to save money in the future. I really think that this is a “no brainer,” and they will continue to do this in the future

I hope to hear and soon see the amazing strip at Las Vegas is still growing as soon as possible. I think that acting like Vegas is some sort of “green” accomplishing city is kind of stupid, but I do hope to see it continue to grow. If it grows and expands with larger buildings I also hope to see them use technology to conserve as much energy as the town can.