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Letters from Environmental Building News
November 1, 1995
Don’t Downplay Human Health Priorities
I very much appreciate your recognition of the need for and efforts to identify priorities for “green building” (whatever that is). Such priorities can either be defined implicitly by the buildings a “green designer” creates or by some systematic process based on a hierarchy of environmental problems. Your September/October 1995 feature article reflects the priorities for ecological risks established by the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in the “Reducing Risk...” report. Yours is an important step in the right direction, and I applaud you for it. Far too many claims of “green design” remain unsupported by any such analysis. Mostly, we building professionals tend to do what we know how to do, what we think is the right thing to do, and what our clients are willing to let us do....
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