Green building impacts

from Associated Construction Publications (1/13):

Message to the Transition: Green Building Creates Jobs, Saves Energy and Saves Money
-- Associated Construction Publications, 1/13/2009
USGBC Advances Green Building as Essential to Economic Recovery

Facing an unrivaled financial crisis, President-Elect Obama and the new 111th Congress have been moving quickly and decisively to develop a plan to revive the economy through swift passage of the single largest economic recovery package in U.S. history. With a commitment to transformative change aimed at catapulting the U.S. into a position of leadership in the new green economy, the incoming administration plans to make a significant down payment on major green initiatives that will spur innovation, put money back into the wallets of hard-working Americans, and create millions of green jobs, the USGBC notes in its January newsletter." ...

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