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Getting started...
- Building
Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility. BIPER
USA provides a range of resources for sustainable design professionals.
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GreenClips is
a summary of news on sustainable building design and related government
and business issues published every two weeks by e-mail.
- EcoIQ
offers general information on a wide
variety of subjects and includes an extensive treatment of green building.
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Environmental Building News offers a checklist to help you get started with your green building
project.
- Green Building
Concepts contains
general information on green building with a focus on residential and the
do-it-yourselfer.
- Green Building
Information Council. Based
in British Columbia, Canada, the Council provides information and links to other green
building Web sites.
- Green Resource
Center. More than 600 resources are available here. There are plenty of
case studies, how-to information, specifications, and more!
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NAHB
Research Center identifies resources for developing a Green Building Program and
Green Building activities at the Research Center.
- Rocky Mountain Institute provides information on
green building and sustainable development including case studies.
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Sustainable Sources
allows the user to search through a sustainable building site and a green building
professionals directory and find other environmental related sites.
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U.S. Department of Energy. The Sustainable Building Technical Manual may be
downloaded from this site.
- U.S.
Green Building Council.
Check out the Leadership and Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating
System. It will help you evaluate buildings and understand the characteristics of
the green building.
- Whole Building Design Guide.
a complete Internet resource to a wide range of building-related
design guidance, criteria and technology.
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