Greening our built world : costs, benefits, and strategies, Greg Kats, principal author ; Jon Braman & Michael James

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Greening our built world : costs, benefits, and strategies, Greg Kats, principal author ; Jon Braman & Michael James

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costs, benefits, and strategies

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Greg Kats, principal author ; Jon Braman & Michael James

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• Greening our built world : costs, benefits, and strategies

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• Washington, DC, Island Press, ©2010

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index

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Contents

pt. I. Costs and benefits of green building. Methodology -- The cost of building green -- Energy-use reductions -- Advanced energy-use reductions -- Water-related savings -- Green affordable housing: Enterprise's Green Communities Initiative -- Health and productivity benefits of green buildings -- Green health care: assessing costs and benefits -- Employment benefits of green buildings -- Property value impacts of building green -- Net financial impacts of green buildings for owners and occupants -- pt. II. Costs and benefits of green community design. What is a green community? -- Setting the stage for sustainable urbanism -- Financial impacts of green community design -- Transportation and health impacts of green community design -- Property value and market impacts -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Social impacts of green communities -- Cost savings in ecologically designed conservation developments -- International green building -- Financial impact of green communities -- pt. 3. Communities of faith building green -- Faith groups in the green vanguard -- Methodology and findings -- Motivation -- Impact of green building in faith communities -- Financial stewardship -- Conclusion -- pt. 4. Green design, climate change, and the economy: potential impacts in the United States. Energy consumption -- Renewable energy -- Carbon dioxide emissions -- Financial impact -- Conclusion. Perspective: Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park -- Perspective: Water-saving strategies: Oregon Health Sciences University Center for Health and Healing -- Perspective: Birth of the Green Branch Bank -- Perspective: Green building as corporate social responsibility -- Perspective: Investing in brownfields -- Perspective: Measuring consumer demand for green homes -- Perspective: Monitoring performance at the LEED Platinum Center for Neighborhood Technology -- Perspective: Green buildings in China -- Perspective: A greener economic recovery -- Appendix A: Data-collection methodology -- Appendix B: Source list -- Appendix C: Green building data set -- Appendix D: Comparison of data set to LEED-new construction buildings -- Appendix E: Baselines used in cost and benefits estimates -- Appendix F: Issues in researching the cost of green building -- Appendix G: Cost of energy-efficiency and renewable-energy measures -- Appendix H: Energy-use baselines and standards -- Appendix I: Verifying the energy performance of LEED buildings -- Appendix J: Assumptions used for calculations of water savings -- Appendix K: Green building survey instrument -- Appendix L: Global assumptions for part IV

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9781610910798

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