Green Building
Commercial building professionals are calling green buildings "High Performance Buildings"or "Healthy, High Performance Buildings". Home building professionals call green built homes "Comfortable and Low Cost".
Both professional and residential green buildings are certified through the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System, a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.
Key Questions:
- How can Northeast Ohio become the home of the largest stock of healthy, high performance buildings for home and business in the country?
- How we advance the green building renovation industry?
- Deconstruction is part of the life cycle of buildings. How do we advance the technologies and practices of deconstruction?
First Steps
- Invest in energy efficiency
- Hire green cleaning services or use green cleaning supplies
- Follow LEED or Energy Star green building protocols
- Deconstruct when necessary and possible
Next Steps
- Hire green landscaping and lawncare services
- Explore water conservation practices and technologies
Bold Steps
- Grow the passive energy home industry.
- Set energy efficiency BHAG (Big Hairy Audicious Goal) examples 50% energy reduction by 2020.
