The Green Building Revolution: Advancing Sustainability at Exponential Speed

Jeffrey S. Seigel
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Jeffrey S. Seigel: New York University

A chapter in Corporate Sustainability, 2013, pp 253-264 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There is no singular definition of Sustainability and the word is starting to become a commonly used term with a diverse scope from environmental to social issues. The author believes that sustainability or sustain means to maintain or continue, survival, maintenance, continuity, not losing ground or going backwards. The author typed in “Definition of Sustainability” in Google and received almost two million hits. The Environmental Protection Agency/EPA (2012) provided the following definition of sustainability:

Keywords: Electricity Consumption; Green Building; Indoor Environmental Quality; Waste Output; Green Building Council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37018-2_12

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