Green Building at Carleton

The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has an excellent website with information
regarding LEED, green building educational opportunities, news, and green collar jobs.

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 The United States Environmental Protection Agency site provides a definition of green building,
incentives to adopt sustainable design practices, a history of green building in the U.S., and an
explanation of the EPA's green building strategy.

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Build It Green has a great website with green building background and benefits, tools and resources,
information regarding upcoming training events and workshops, and an explanation of its own green
building accreditation system called Green Point Rated.        

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Visit this site for further information on Cassat and Memorial Halls, including live-feed energy use 
monitor data, more extensive green features maps, and animations of several of the buildings' green
technologies at work.