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Green Buildings
The Environmental Protetion Agency Guide to Green Building
Additional EPA Green Building Statistics (pdf)

Delivering Green Buildings
The High Performance Home 100
A Colorado group promoting green building practices. Many different stakeholders are represented and their reports form an excellent overview of the potential and challenges of green building.

Raise high the green beam, carpenter
Auden Schendler, Director of Environmental Affairs at the Aspen Skiing Company, explains the practical difficulties of delivering truly green buildings.

Home Energy Efficiency
Elements of an Energy Efficient House
Explains in more detail the differences between energy efficient and conventional construction.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources from the EPA

Calculating Building Lifecycle Impacts
Lifecycle analysis office buildings (pdf)

Green Building Materials
Environmentally Preferable Building Materials and Specification

The Integrated Design Process
The Integrated Design Process
Whole Building Design
The Integrated Design Process (including a checklist) (pdf)

Smart Growth
Congress for the New Urbanism
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development

Heat Islands
Chicago's Heat Island Effect
More on Heat Islands


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