Monday, February 23, 2009
Editorials Blog - SJMN
The "Editorial: Valley Cities make progress on green building standards" brings light to a new movement - the green movement. The green movement is making its way across Santa Clara County's 15 cities. These cities have agree to meet the building standards of the LEED Silver standard for new or renovated public buildings.
The movement will help make more efficient use of water, land, and energy and discourage wasteful building practices. Communities will benefit in the sense that there will be a significant reduction in green house gas emission, the water supply will be stretched, and the new standard will help save about 20 percent of operating costs over the businesses' lifetime. All cities of the Santa Clara county will set different minimums but they will all use the standards of Build it Green and LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Many of the buisnsses have agreed with the central idea of "what's good for the climate is good for business."
I think this is a fantastic idea. I just hope it does not fade out like the last big movement that came out of the bay. Green house gas emissions is a ever popular issue and if buisnesses want to be viewed positively, they must act sensitively to the issue. From a global standpoint, any step taken toward a solution is generally a good one. This may not have the effect of adjusting a standard for a more harmful element such as automobiles but still, its in the right direction. Hopefully, if all goes well, more people will catch on to the buildling standardards and before we know it, the whole country is living green.
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I see there's a theme going on in your articles.
ReplyDeleteGreenhouse effect and global warming and going green are possible subjects for your massive research paper.
It seems like your interested and I really hope you go down to use it.
Interesting topic, extra good vocabulary. Keep it up.
You spelled businesses wrong. haha. Just wanted to point that out. Thanks.
To be honest I never really cared for the environment, as ignorant as that sounds. I didn't like taking environmental science in high school because it was an extreme bore. I didn't want to know what areas needed tending to or what exactly was being depleted. However, I understand that although I dislike the lack of excitement the topic carries, I do see how much of an issue it poses. I hope that everything this article says it wants to do, will do. I think there are more people out there who, like you, think its a fantastic idea and hope for the best.
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