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Are green building rating tools ready for a paradigm shift?

from The Fifth Estate

Are green building rating tools ready for a paradigm shift? The Fifth Estate Around 2009, someone from a green building organisation contacted my university to say their organisation would no longer work with QUT because I taught there. My transgression? A newspaper quoted me as saying that “green buildings are not sustainable”. Indeed, I had said that. Despite greater efficiencies and more greenery, buildings increasingly consume energy and resources, forget the poor, and cannibalise the natural life-support system. READ MORE

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