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Despite Its Massive Size, the Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casino

is One of the Greenest Buildings in the U.S.

Resort Hotel and CasinoBelieve it or not, Las Vegas, America's Playground, A/K/A Sin City, is starting to go green. January of this year saw the opening of the Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casino, which, a total size of  8.3 million square feet is reckoned to be the largest LEED-rated building in the United States. Las Vegas strip hotels will soon see a gren building boom, that despite the battered economy, will add 50 million square feet of green architecture to the Las Vegas skyline. You know, I'm all for green architecture and anything that will save energy, reduce pollution, and make life easier, but if the Las Vegas casino and hotels want to get truly green, they need to look at the way people go to Vegas. When they fly in, they generate a huge carbon footprint. No, if they're smart and want to get truly green, the Las Vegas strip hotels, and everyone else in the gaming and tourism business needs to get behind some kind of electric, high-speed rail service to and from Vegas to places like L.A., Phoenix, San Diego, Tucson, and other population centers. Using rail instead of air travel to enjoy the cheap Las Vegas hotels and the palaces like the Bellagio would take thousands of tons of pollutants out of the air every year.