Yesterday Reuters posted an article that demonstrated the incremental change that is taking place in the built environment.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act designed to stimulate the economy appears to have the trickle down effect in the green building domain. Those that are working, are too busy to respond to email and those that are not, are writing on blogs and auditing classes in between searching all the applicable job sites and adding their resume to the 100+ queue of overqualified applicants.
Meanwhile, states like California are receiving large chunks of funds earmarked for job creation yet those funds are used to pay down the states enormous debt.
Talk of mandating green building is interrupted by the technical annoyance that green design hasn’t improved building efficiency. So while the USGBC scrambles to finally address this hiccup in legitimacy, the built environment or should I say the building professionals wait for the opportunity to contribute.
Show me the money…
Filed under Some LEED-ers, Some LEED-less
Lisa Goddard
