The need for creating a more energy efficient home is where the business is today.

There are CGPs in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. North Carolina has the most graduates, with more than 500 statewide. Find one today!!

After fierce criticism, the city is dropping a plan that would have required older buildings — those measuring 50,000 square feet or more —to perform energy audits and subsequent efficiency upgrades.

Home construction inevitably impacts the environment and finding ways to reduce this impact is very important.

July 13, 2009 – Washington, DC – The iconic Empire State Building is going green – retrofitting its existing structure with today’s most efficient technology to reduce the building’s energy consumption by 38-percent.

I have created this article to share my best Green Factoidz with you. This is my favorite Green articles as of July 2009 that I have written. I hope you enjoy these Green articles and vote them up if you would like.

Green Washing is when a manufacturer, supplier or builder intentionally or unintentionally makes false, misleading or exaggerated claims about their products and the environmental benefits they may have.

If all U.S. households installed water-saving features, water use would decrease by 30 percent, saving an estimated 5.4 billion gallons per day. This would result in dollar-volume savings of $11.3 million per day or more than $4 billion per year.

Home Builders are moving to Green with hopes to capture a small piece of this growing business. This is helping some but will it really help the overall situation and get this housing market out of this terrible spot.

Learn the Green process if you want to supply the green projects.

The debate on Green Building certification

Can a product be Green and sustainable? This is a difficult question and it can be a yes or a no.

When I see home owners driving their Hummer and building their multi million dollar vacation home, say “I want our building products to be green”, don’t understand what going green is about.