According to a study by the California Sustainable Building Task Force, a collection of building industry representatives and state agency officials, with help from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, constructing a certified green building yields a tenfold savings over 20 years through lower energy and water bills, reduced waste disposal costs and increased productivity and health of workers. Imagine what the return would be if you included in the numerator of they cost per barrel of oil, the cost of global warming and the cost of military spending in the Middle East to protect the oil there.

The road to energy independence, economic recovery and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions runs through the Building Sector.