From the Library from Environmental Building News
January 1, 2005

The Costs and Benefits of High-Performance Buildings:
Lessons Learned

Pamela Lippe and Earth Day New York have released another gem of a compilation, including two dozen cutting-edge essays from some of the green building world’s most acclaimed thinkers and practitioners. The Costs and Benefits of High Performance Buildings is the third in Earth Day New York’s Lessons Learned series. Like the previous collections, Four Times Square and High Performance Buildings (see EBN Vol. 10, No. 1), this resource is organized like a magazine, with advertisements interspersed throughout. Unlike the previous offerings, however, this one is focused on the financial aspects of green building. “The challenge is no longer simply breaking into the marketplace,” according to Lippe. “The focus is on making it cost-effective.”
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