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What Does Green Really Cost?

This article explains how to get around the hesitation to build green because of perceived higher cost. It discusses setting sustainability goals, involving users and operators in the integrated project team, and defining how cost will be evaluated upfront.



Transforming Green Building Education

The building industry is changing: We are no longer designing and constructing buildings in the same way we have always done. The green building movement offers an unprecedented opportunity to respond to the most-important challenges of our time, including global climate change, dependence on non-sustainable and expensive sources of energy, and threats to human health. The work of innovative building professionals is a fundamental driving force in the green building movement. Such leadership is a critical component to achieving the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) mission of a sustainable built environment for all within a generation.

The fundamental building block of market transformation is education. Greenbuild365, USGBC's interactive green building learning portal, is a tool to engage professionals from a broad range of disciplines-design, construction, real estate, education and more - in the growing sustainability movement, connecting them to the knowledge they need to be active contributors to the changing dynamics of the industry.

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