What's Next?

Our intent with the Green Building Impact Report is to establish an early benchmark for comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impacts of green buildings. It is a work in progress and our assessment in some cases revealed how little the world knows about the environmental aspects of green building performance.

We expect that future annual editions of the Green Building Impact Report will build on this initial effort, growing increasingly more comprehensive. Toward this end, the 2009 report will evaluate the impact of LEED buildings globally and will assess the trends in the world's hottest green building markets.

On the U.S. scene, we will address LEED Homes and some special markets such as school and retail applications of LEED, as well as a preliminary look at LEED for Neighborhood Developments (LEED ND). We also plan to have addressed LEED Commercial Interiors (LEED CI) questions regarding double-counting and to have determined how to accurately separate these impacts from those of other LEED buildings.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please send them to: GBIR@greenerworldmedia.com