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Green Design
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Green Guide for Health Care™
A best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry developed by Health Care Without Harm. (Source: Health Care Without Harm) |
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Introduction to Green Building Sustainable design is a comprehensive approach to constructing and renovating buildings that are aesthetically pleasing and comfortable, while optimizing the integration of building systems and minimizing the negative impact on public health and the environment. Sustainable design can impact a range of environmental and health issues, from energy and water consumption to indoor air quality, asthma and the depletion of natural resources. (Source: The Green Roundtable) |
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Comparing Green Building Guidelines and Healthy Homes Principles In this preliminary report, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) compared major national green building and indoor air quality guidelines with its own set of recommended healthy housing criteria to assess the extent to which these programs protect residents from health and safety hazards. (Source: The National Center for Healthy Housing) |
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The Little Green Schoolhouse We can make our schools greener and healthier places by using alternatives to toxic chemicals, pursuing environmentally sound building practices, using resources sustainably, serving nutritious food, and teaching students to be stewards of their communities and the earth. (Source: The Green Schools Initiative) |
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Everyone Benefits from Green Building . . . The Green Building Task Force was convened by Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston, to explore the subject of green building and to recommend actions through which the City of Boston can most effectively foster an increase in green building and become a national leader in this field. (Source: Mayor Menino's Green Building Task Force) |
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Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits This paper reviews a major recent report on the issue of green building costs benefits, “The Costs and Benefits of Green Buildings,” Kats 1 et al., October 2003 2 (the Report). Led by Capital E, the Report was prepared in partnership with the US Green Building Council and California's Sustainable Building Task Force for 40+ California state agencies. (Source: Massachusetts Technology Collaborative) |
