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Green Building Resource Guide
www.amazon.com/Green-Building-Resource-Guide-Hermannsson/dp/Green Building Resource Guide By John Hermannsson, published: January 1, 2008. This comprehensive resource guide for environmentally friendly building materials includes information on structural and finish materials such as recycled lumber, natural-fiber ...
The environmental resource handbook
Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2005. Also on disk & as an online database. Directory of chapters on associations, awards, research, green city rankings. Includes statistics for brownfields, air quality,children's health, drinking water, noise pollu ...
Building Design & Construction's White Paper on Sustain...
www.usgbc.org/Docs/Resources/BDCWhitePaperR2.pdfReleased at USGBC's 2003 Greenbuild conference, this comprehensive white paper offers a brief history of green building; presents the results of a reader survey; and analyzes trends, issues, and published research.
Building Momentum – National Trends and Prospects for...
www.usgbc.org/docs/resources/043003_hpgb_whitepaper.pdfThis report, based on an April 2002 roundtable convened by the U.S. Senate Public Works and Environment Committee, highlights the components of green building and outlines recommendations for expanding the movement.
Model National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings 1997
irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/pubs/codes/nrcc38731_e.htmlThe Model National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (MNECB) is intended to help you design energy-efficient buildings. It sets out minimum requirements for features of buildings that determine their energy efficiency, taking into account regional const ...
Green Buidling in North America
www.cec.org/files/PDF//GB_Report_EN.pdfThis Article 13 report was prepared by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). In this report, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recommends that North American leaders make green building ...
National Energy Use Database (NEUD)
www.oee.nrcan.gc.ca/corporate/statistics/neud/dpa/home.cfm?aNational Energy Use Database (NEUD) initiative to help the department improve its knowledge of energy consumption and energy efficiency at the end-use level in Canada and to support NRCan's analytical expertise. Its most important role is to secure the de ...