The Los Angeles Times has just run an article where Al Gore is calling for a “Green Building Revolution”. Al Gore and his wife Tipper live in a 100-year-old house in Nashville that they green retrofitted, winning them the first gold LEED standard in the state from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. Gore’s New York office is in the only platinum LEED skyscraper in that city, the Bank of America building.
He pointed out that the U.S. market for green building products and services has grown from $7 billion in 2005 to $12 billion in 2007 to a projected $60 billion for 2010. He urged the green building movement to keep environmental standards high and to speak out against greenwashing. And he condoned continuing national legislation that would help homeowners pay the upfront costs of investments in green technologies.
“It’s crucial to change the lights and windows, but it’s even more important to change the laws and policies, so we as citizens have to speak out,” he said. “Every single day in this world we’re putting 90 million tons of global-warming pollution into the atmosphere. … National academies of science in every major country have reaffirmed that finding, and they’re shouting from the rooftops to say you have to do something.”
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