Press Clips

News Articles

• 8/24/04 SolarAccess.com: Near-Zero-Homes Help Clear the Air
• 7/30/04 Mortgage 101: Benefits of Green Building
• 3/14/04 Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Emory sees ‘green’ building as good investment
• 2/18/04 Idaho Statesman: Environment at Work: LEED Sets Standard for Green Building Design
• 2/8/04 New York Times: Creating a Model Ecofriendly Housing Project
• 1/27/04 Tidepool: LEEDing the Way
• 1/26/04 L.A. Times: Building on Green Principles
• 1/15/04 Journal of Business: Efforts launched to help builders, others ‘go green’
• 1/13/04 Newsday.com: City Buildings Reflect Growing Green Trend; Alternative power sources gaining in popularity
• 1/5/04 Buffalo Business First: UB’s green building gains U.S. registration
• 11/03 Design/Build Business Magazine: The Reality of Green
• 8/1/2003 Columbus Business First: Sustainable design saves on building’s bottom line
• 7/25/03 Environmental News Network: University of California passes clean energy policy
• 7/2/03 Environmental News Network: San Diego mayor flips solar switch on green municipal building
• 6/4/03 New York Times: Toyota Project Aims to Be Green and Mainstream
• 5/28/03 Grist Magazine: Green Giant?
• 1/15/03 New York Times: Not Going Green Is Called a Matter of Economics
• 11/8/02 Raleigh News & Observer: As green as it can be
• 7/10/02 Wall Street Journal: Once Skeptics, Builders See Green in Contracts for ‘Green’ Offices
• 6/28/02 Market News Publishing: Natural Resources Canada and Gaz Metropolitain Promote Energy-Efficiency Together
• 1/30/01 Environmental Design & Construction: Do Green Buildings Enhance the Well Being of Workers?
• January/February 2000 Home Energy Magazine Online: Green Building Programs – A Growing Trend
• January 2000 Environmental Building News: Building Materials: What Makes a Product Green?
• May 1999 Environmental Building News: Building Green on a Budget
• September/October 1995 Environmental Building News: Establishing Priorities with Green Building
• Building Green.com: Checklist for Environmentally Responsible Design and Construction
• Natural Resources Defense Council: New York’s Green Building Tax Credit

Press Releases

• 7/29/04 Businesswire: IEUA Receives Highest Rating – Platinum – From U.S. Green Building Council
• 2/8/04 Green Building Alliance: Pittsburgh Ranked as America’s ‘Greenest’ City
• 1/15/04 PRNewswire: GeoPraxis Announces the ‘Green Building Studio(TM)’ Web-Service Beta Program
• 1/13/04 Audubon: Audubon Nature Center is Certified as Nation’s Most Environmentally Friendly Building
• 5/1/01 City of Frisco, Texas: Frisco Is First City in the Country to Adopt EPA’s ‘Energy Star’ Program Requirements as Minimum Building Standard for New Homes

Reports

• Greg Kats, Capital E: The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings: A Report to California’s Sustainable Building Task Force (October 2003)
• Office of the Federal Environmental Executive: The Federal Commitment to Green Building: Experiences and Expectations
• U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Federal Energy Management Program: The Business Case for Sustainable Design in Federal Facilities (August 2003)
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos Project: Building for Sustainability (October 2002)
• U.S. Green Building Council, Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the Real Estate Roundtable: Making the Business Case for High Performance Green Buildings (April 2002)
• National Association of Home Builders and the NAHB Research Center: Building Greener, Building Better: The Quiet Revolution (2002)
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute: High Performance School Buildings: Energy-Smart Schools That Make a Difference (December 2001)
• Prepared by XENERGY Inc. and SERA Architects for the Portland Energy Office, Portland, Oregon: Green City Buildings: Applying the LEED Rating System (18 June 2000)
• Joseph J. Romm, U.S. Department of Energy and William D. Browning, Rocky Mountain Institute: Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity Through Energy-Efficient Design (December 1994)
• David Malin Roodman and Nicholas Lenssen, Worldwatch Institute: A Building Revolution: How Ecology and Health Concerns Are Transforming Construction (March 1995)
• San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Sustainable Development Committee: Green Buildings: Bringing Environmentally Sensitive Design to San Francisco (1 June 2001)