The Extraordinary Growth of Green Building – A Rebuttal to The Green Building Adoption Rate is Slow, Find Out The Practical Reasons Why

The Extraordinary Growth of Green Building  – A Rebuttal to The Green Building Adoption Rate is Slow, Find Out The Practical Reasons Why

In this a rebuttal post to The Green Building Adoption Rate is Slow, Find Out The Practical Reasons Why, Richard argues that in fact the growth rate has been very high, citing for example that in late 2010, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) celebrated its first billion square feet of LEED certified green buildings. He makes the argument that the growth rate in the green building space is actually quite high especially considering the background of economic recession and tight capital in which it has occurred.

Back to School: Green Curricula

An increasing number of colleges are now offering environmental curricula. With unemployment hovering around 10 percent in the US, millions of Americans are enrolling in college hoping to improve their employment prospects.