CSUN University News Clippings

Push for greener buildings gains advocates, but when is green really green?

(July 2, 2009)

By SCOTT CARLSON

The greenest building, so the saying goes, is no building at all. But few colleges are planning to stop campus construction entirely. So if colleges plan to reduce their energy use — and, in hundreds of cases, meet their pledges for climate neutrality — green building will have to get much more ambitious.

For years, college administrators would pat themselves on the back if they earned a silver rating in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, the leading certification program for green building. Today, gold- and platinum-rated buildings are increasingly common. In years to come, administrators may tout another designation that is generating buzz among many architects, engineers, and builders, even as they ponder how to define it: “net zero.”………………….

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education