Minnesota GreenStar seeks to transform the Minnesota residential building industry into one where healthy and sustainable building practices are understood, economically advantageous and socially desirable. It not only provides standards for designing and building better homes, but it promotes a socio-economic environment that makes such methods attainable to everyone.
FACT: We live in a global ecosystem and depend upon it. The choices we make about where we live and the houses we design and build affect us and our ecosystem.
FACT: Our existing housing stock in the United States consumes roughly 20% of our primary energy and raw materials, and accounts for one-fifth of our nation’s climate changing pollution (5% of the world’s).
FACT: The rate at which the global climate is changing has been linked to human activities by leading scientists throughout the world.
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