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    1. Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings?

      Explore greenbiz.com (Mar 2 2012) Green building

      Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings? Everyone knows that green buildings use less energy to operate. And studies show they’re healthier for occupants, which makes for happier residents and more productive workers. But safer and more durable? Seems so. A study released this week suggests that greener construction can advance building resiliency. To me, this link seems intuitive: green buildings are generally designed and built more carefully, with better materials and tighter finishes. It turns out that efficiency-focused features m (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   U.S. Green Building Council

    2. Behind the Top 10 List for Green Building Markets: How SF Made No. 1

      Explore greenbiz.com (Feb 16 2012) Green building

      Behind the Top 10 List for Green Building Markets: How SF Made No. 1 By Leslie Guevarra Published February 16, 2012 Email | Print | Single Page View More Stories On: Buildings, Finance, More... Buildings, Finance, Policy & Regulations, Reporting, Sustainable Sites It's always interesting to learn how the leaders in any Top 10 list emerged as the front-runners, especially in the sustainability arena where green rankings abound. (Read Full Article)

    3. How Lifecycle Cost Analysis Can Make a Better Case for Green Building

      Explore greenbiz.com (Jan 6 2012) Green building

      How Lifecycle Cost Analysis Can Make a Better Case for Green Building Design teams that consider the impacts of a building across its lifetime can help their clients make choices on materials, structural elements and systems that will reduce operations and environmental costs and other hidden expenses that are shaped by design decisions. (Read Full Article)

    4. Green Strategies for Cities to Manage Wastewater

      Explore greenbiz.com (Nov 22 2011) Green building

      Green Strategies for Cities to Manage Wastewater GreenBiz.comGreen Strategies for Cities to Manage WastewaterGreenBiz.comThis report, titled "Rooftops to Rivers II," looks at the ways that cities can use smart infrastructure and green building design to minimize the pollution from stormwater runoff and other wastewaters. An estimated 10 trillion gallons a year of ...and more » (Read Full Article)

    5. The Green Building Tools Cities Can Use to Cut Water Pollution

      Explore greenbiz.com (Nov 17 2011) Green building , Pervious Concrete

      The Green Building Tools Cities Can Use to Cut Water Pollution GreenBiz.com (blog)The Green Building Tools Cities Can Use to Cut Water PollutionGreenBiz.com (blog)I live in California, and about the time each fall when we turn our clocks back to standard time many of us are hunting around our closets or car trunks looking for umbrellas we last saw in April. It's the start of the rainy season out ...and more » (Read Full Article)

    6. LEED's Reach Grows Despite Grim Economy, But Slower Than Hoped

      Explore greenbiz.com (Nov 8 2011) Green building

      LEED's Reach Grows Despite Grim Economy, But Slower Than Hoped The fourth annual Green Buildings Market & Impact report, researched and written by Rob Watson for GreenBiz.com, finds continued growth in certified green buildings, especially overseas, as the business benefits of green buildings become more widely accepted. (Read Full Article)

    7. Green Building Market and Impact Report 2011

      Explore greenbiz.com (Nov 8 2011) green eduction

      Green Building Market and Impact Report 2011 GreenBiz.comGreen Building Market and Impact Report 2011GreenBiz.comThe findings of the fourth annual Green Building Market & Impact Report show that LEED buildings continue to grow -- although at a slower pace than hoped. Among the other top-level findings of this in-depth report include a look at the rapid expansion ... (Read Full Article)

    8. MIT Weighs the Lifecycle Impacts of Concrete | Buildings | GreenBiz.com

      Explore greenbiz.com (Oct 7 2011) Green building

      MIT Weighs the Lifecycle Impacts of Concrete | Buildings | GreenBiz.com Concrete is literally the backbone of our infrastructure, but it often takes a bad rap for the carbon intensity of its key ingredient: cement. Research from MIT could change they way we look at the mainstay in construction materials. (Read Full Article)

    9. 3 Reasons Why Responsible Investing is Booming During the Downturn

      Explore greenbiz.com (Sep 20 2011) Green building

      3 Reasons Why Responsible Investing is Booming During the Downturn From slow food, to green building, to climate change, people are paying more attention to their impacts on the world; they are asking more questions about how their actions impact the commons known as planet earth. Second, although many tend to ... (Read Full Article)

    10. How Building Codes Give Us Smaller Energy, Carbon Footprints

      Explore greenbiz.com (Sep 7 2011) Green building

      How Building Codes Give Us Smaller Energy, Carbon Footprints The benefits from building energy codes aren't just theoretical, according to new research that examined hard data on energy use in states with codes on the books. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   U.S. Green Building Council

    11. Building Owners Get Help Staying Ahead of New Green Laws

      Explore greenbiz.com (Jul 27 2011) Green building

      Building Owners Get Help Staying Ahead of New Green Laws That would be almost three times the amount of square footage currently certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification program, which had certified more than 1 billion square feet as of last year. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   U.S. Green Building Council