Green Buildings are Geostrategic, says NY Times’ Tom Friedman
Today’s NY Times magazine has a critically important article from Thomas Friedman, who argues that green is “geostrategic, geoeconomic, capitalistic and patriotic”. I’ve been telling you for a while now that doing green buildings well is how we in the building industry can help create a livable future.
According to Tom Friedman, author of The World is Flat, “I think that living, working, designing, manufacturing and projecting America in a green way can be the basis of a new unifying political movement for the 21st century. A redefined, broader and more muscular green ideology is not meant to trump the traditional Republican and Democratic agendas but rather to bridge them when it comes to addressing the three major issues facing every American today: jobs, temperature and terrorism.” Green building consultants and designers should wake up to the importance of the need to advocate on every project for high-performance buildings. See the entire article in the New York Times magazine for Sunday, April 15th. And don’t forget to file those tax returns by April 17th!
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