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Headline	Author	Published	Section
If you build it ... Green building may be quickest path to decreased emissions	Tia Ghose	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Reuters has the skinny on a new report on green building. The report concluded that building green would reduce greenhouse emissions more quickly than any other approach. According to the article: North America's buildings release more than 2,200 megatonnes, or about 35 percent of the continent's total, of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. If the construction market quickly adopted current and emerging energy-saving technologies, that number could be cut by 1,700 ...
Topics: climate, green building, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Mmmm ... low-hanging fruit Building professionals overestimate costs and underestimate benefits of green building	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A new study (PDF) from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development finds that folks in the real estate and construction businesses overestimate the cost of building green by 300%. Specifically, the 1,400 professionals surveyed across the globe estimated that: green building costs 17% more than normal building, when the reality is 5%, and greenhouse gases from buildings are 19% of the global total, when the reality is 40%. Got that? People in ...
Topics: green building, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)