Credits for this Green Building Pyramid go to Green Builder Magazine, and you can link to the original at: http://www.greenbuildermag.com/News/Headlines/Green-Building-Pyramid.aspx .A brilliant chart I just had to pull up and share because it addresses one of the key questions people ask when they want to do the sustainable thing... where do I start?
Starting points and priorities are critical as part of a multi-step process that makes becoming more sustainable something that's more manageable, both in the mind of those involved in the project, and operationally. In fact, the objective to strive for is to be become more sustainable. It's a big order to get to claim to be sustainable. Shades of green... never quite totally green, but getting there.
An awareness of where to start and what the priorities are, being educated on the relative ROI of different changes, and benchmarking/measuring the changes in order to celebrate the successes, are key. And let there be no mistake about it... successes lay the foundation for more successes. Nothing will encourage people to move on to a larger initiative as enthusiastically as previous success in a smaller initiative.
So this why I like this chart so much, and why I think it presents an educational model well worth copying and imitating, in home building and in other areas.
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