Transforming Green Building Education
The building industry is changing: We are no longer designing and constructing buildings in the same way we have always done. The green building movement offers an unprecedented opportunity to respond to the most-important challenges of our time, including global climate change, dependence on non-sustainable and expensive sources of energy, and threats to human health. The work of innovative building professionals is a fundamental driving force in the green building movement. Such leadership is a critical component to achieving the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) mission of a sustainable built environment for all within a generation.
The fundamental building block of market transformation is education. Greenbuild365, USGBC's interactive green building learning portal, is a tool to engage professionals from a broad range of disciplines-design, construction, real estate, education and more - in the growing sustainability movement, connecting them to the knowledge they need to be active contributors to the changing dynamics of the industry.
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