OverviewGoals of green buildingReducing environmental impactCost and payoffRegulation and operationGreen neighborhoods and villagesInternational frameworks and assessment toolsDevelopment history
The concept of sustainable development can be traced to the energy (especially fossil oil) crisis and environmental pollution concerns of the 1960s and 1970s. The Rachel Carson book, Silent Spring, published in 1962, is considered to be one of the first efforts to describe sustainable development as related to green building. The green building movement in the U.S. originated from the need and desire for more energy efficient and
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