Is Going Green Worth The Trouble?
I’m only pointing this out because the biggest challenge for green buildings, whether new or existing, is to build green on a conventional budget, a process I’ve dubbed “frugal green.” Most teams are not willing to change their approach to projects to get this done, using the process of integrated design that’s the basis for my latest book, Green Building through Integrated Design. Check out my press release on Frugal Green to see what I recommend for Building Teams. The key issue is the building professionals have got to become advocates for high-performance building or we’ll never start reducing the growth of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere. For example, US carbon dioxide emissions increased 1.3 percent last year, even as the economic slowdown was worsening, on top of a 1.4 percent increase in 2007.
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