Posts Tagged ‘National Green Building Standard’

Can Sprawl be Green?

The NAHB and ICC are Working on a New set of Green Building StandardsIn my post of May 6th, “Traditional Neighborhood Development and LEED Go Hand in Hand,” I made the point that smart growth and new urbanism are helping give a ‘boost’ to green building practices. While conducting research for that article, however, I did find several assertions to the contrary.  So, for the sake of playing devil’s advocate, I will here take a look at some of those assertions.

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