News Times Live Going green: Design movement growing to build environmentally friendly buildings: "If you could build a new school -- or office building or home -- that was sunlit and healthy, environmentally friendly, and that would save you lots of money for years to come, why wouldn't you?
That's the question people throughout the country are increasingly asking.
'Green' buildings are no longer some Whole Earth Catalog, off-the-grid pipe dream. They are increasingly becoming the standard by which other new buildings are measured.
'If you're building something that's going to last 50 years, why would you invest in something that's out of date?'' Gregory Kats, a leader of Capital E, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm specializing in energy-efficient building, said at a Green Buildings conference at the state Capitol last week."
