Green Building Sites

The following sites and links provide a overview of green building and sustainable development activities:
Green Building Challenge ‘98 The Green Building Challenge ‘98 is a two-year international assessment process of green buildings culminating in an international conference and sponsored by CANMET Energy Technology Centre, other Canadian and international agencies and the Green Building Information Council. This page contains information about international process.
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) RMI is a nonprofit research and educational foundation with a vision across boundaries. Its mission is to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security. The Institute creates, and helps individuals and the private sector to practice, new solutions to old problems--mainly by harnessing the problem-solving power of market economics and of advanced techniques for resource efficiency.
Department of Energy's Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development The Center helps communities design and implement innovative strategies that enhance the local economy as well as the local environment and quality of life. The new Center of Excellence shows how sustainable development is being practiced by other urban and rural communities across the nation and provides an internet "tool kit" of sustainable information including manuals, workbooks, data bases, case studies and model codes and ordinances, etc.
US Green Buildings Council This is a component of the US Green Buildings Council's homepage. It contains a priority program of the US Green Building Council entitled "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven building rating system based on existing proven technology that evaluates environmental performance from a "whole building" perspective over a buildings life cycle. LEEDT is intended to be a definitive standard for what constitutes a "green building."
Crest This is a mail archive on greenbuilding topics.
OIKOS Green Building Source Oikos contains information on green building products and materials along with techniques for sustainable design and construction. It is arguably the best and most comprehensive site dealing with "green" materials. It is well well-organized and graphically interesting (yet clean) and provides links to a range of information (and data) on "green" building products and materials.
Energy Crossroads Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Building Science Energy & Environment Division's Energy Crossroads Center. This sitet organizes a wide array of pointers to energy-efficiency resources on the World Wide Web. Energy Crossroads currently contains nearly 400 links to other Web sites.
Crest's GreenClips GreenClips is a summary of recent articles in the media on sustainablebuilding design - green architecture - and related government and business. It is published every two weeks.
North Carolina Green Buildings Council It contains a current listing of greenbuilding activiites in North Carolina as well as a comprehensive resource for finding green building products in North Carolina and across the nation. The directory is divided into building product categories and a searchable online green product database is available.
National Park Service's Sustainable Design and Construction Database The database has approximately 1300 product listings from over 550 manufacturers, listings of over 7000 recyclers of construction debris nationwide, and expanded listings of books, periodicals, organizations, and on-line (Internet) sources of sustainable information.
ParkNet It contains listing of fedeal links related to green/sustainable procurements.
Flordia State's Journal of Sustainable Design and Planning
Green Light Green Lights was officially launched on January 16, 1991. The program's goal is to prevent pollution by encouraging U.S. institutions to use energy-efficient lighting technologies.There were originally 39 Charter members from major U.S. corporations, but today the partnership has expanded to include public and private organizations of all sizes. This is site also provides access to EPA's Enviro$en$e.
Howard Associates It presents a green building "primer" intended for consumers, builders and realtors. The material provides a starting point for further exploration of the topic and increase the reader's ability to ask the right questions. The author of this material is Bion Howard, a former builder and environmental scientist. This article was developed as a result of work done for ASTM, US EPA Energy Star Homes, EEBA, and The Alliance to Save Energy. Please note that this is not an endorsement of Howard and Associates' services.
E Build, Environmental Building News Environmental Building News is the leading periodical on environmentally sustainable design and construction. Our articles, reviews, and news stories are a prime resource on energy-efficient, resource-efficient, and healthy building practices. E-Build addresses material selection, siting, indoor air quality, daylighting, and many more topics related to green buildings.
Green Building Information Council This deals with information on energy and environmental issues in the building sector with the goal of advancing the energy and environmental performance of buildings through the creation, exchange and application of appropriate and timely information.
Construction and Demolition This resource is being developed as a repository of information for Canadian construction and demolition waste management and 3Rs options. It also contains C&D information for other countries.
Federal Register, 40 CFR Part 247 "Comprehensive Guideline for Procurement of Products Containing Recovered Materials; Proposed Rule and Notice." This is is an amendment to the May 1, 1995 Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) in which EPA designaes 13 new items that are or can be made with recovered materials. The CPG implements a section of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This section requires EPA to designate items that are or can be produced with recovered materials and to recommend practices for the procurement of designated items by procuring agencies.
Flordia's Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability (FICUS) It contains a listing of sustainability related websites.
Resource Renewal Institute (RRI) RRI promotes Green Plans as the path to a sustainable environment and economy.This site has been developed to educate and inform those interested in Green Plans as the means to a sustainable environment and economy. It is a source of information, a stepping stone for further investigation, and a forum for the exchange of new developments and ideas.
NRC CNRC IRC Information Service This a list of publications, organizations, bibliographic databases and codes and standards pertaining to green architecture. It is not a complete bibliographies, but it providea an introduction to the literature and identify resources available forfurther research. Check the Pathfinder list at the end of the bibliography for additional information on green buildings. Pathfinders typically contain references to IRC publications as well as other published documents.
Facilities Net This site contains interactive information resource for facilities professionals and relevant issues on operating and maintaining green buildings.