2010: The Era of Green Building
BY: Marie Coleman
This year is not only the start of a new decade, but the beginning of a new era in the way we think about the built environment. In 2000, the U.S. Green Building Council’s vision of green buildings for all within a generation helped the building industry take a giant step forward with the creation of its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification program, providing third-party validation that a building is solving our collective environmental challenges, not contributing to them. more....