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"Green Building" is the rapidly growing method of designing and building homes with a focus on increasing the efficiency with which the home utilizes resources - building materials, energy, and water - while eliminating or reducing negative building impact on human health and our fragile environment. This is accomplished through improved planning, efficient design, earth friendly construction, operation, maintenance, and elimination — the entire building life cycle of a new home.
The interrelated concepts of sustainable development and sustainability are vital to green building. Successful green building can lead to a considerable reduction in operating costs by increasing productivity and less use of energy and water. It can improve public and occupant health through better indoor air quality and reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts by decreasing storm water runoff and the heat island effect.
Individuals who choose to build green often have twin goals of conservation and an aesthetic balance between the home, its natural surrounding and the already developed environment. (This is so even though the facade and style of the sustainable home is not necessarily noticeable from its less sustainable counterparts.)
Green building brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impact of buildings on the environment and human health. But effective green building is more than just a random collection of environmentally friendly technologies. It require s careful, systemic attention to the full life cycle impacts of the resources embodied in the building and to the resource consumption and pollution emissions over the building's complete life cycle.