Since USA Today apparently makes some attempt at a Sustainable
Archiving Policy, I do have some reason to assume that this author's
work will not be lost to posterity due to a maliciously incompetent
publisher:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/offers.html

Therefore I will just paste a few paragraphs and a link:

Buildings designed in cool shades of 'green' 
By John Ritter, USA TODAY

[....]

Once a fringe movement, a legacy of the 1970s energy crisis that never
quite caught on, the green building boom is attracting converts as
disparate as New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, and Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley, a Democrat who has vowed to make his city the
USA's greenest.

A growing number of cities and states insist on green features in
buildings that get tax dollars. The federal government requires its
new buildings to meet green standards. Foundations are making green
design a condition for grants. Local governments are adding
"sustainability" to the job titles of planners and managers.
Architecture students are pressuring universities for more courses in
green design. Americans distressed by poor indoor air quality and
"sick-building syndrome" are demanding fresher environments to live
and work in.

Profit-driven developers and builders are going green because today's
sustainable buildings are price-competitive with conventional ones.
Manufacturers and suppliers of green building materials are rushing to
cash in on an expanding market. The initial cost to go green may be
slightly higher, but the payback in energy efficiency, water
conservation and worker productivity easily recoups those outlays,
experts say.

[...]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-03-30-sustainable-usat_x.htm





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