Standards

Green Globes http://www.greenglobes.com/ The Green Globes system is a revolutionary building environmental design and management tool. It delivers an online assessment protocol, rating system and guidance for green building design, operation and management.

National Association of Home Builders Guidelines http://www.nahbgreen.org/Guidelines/nahbguidelines.aspx Guidelines for residential home.

Green Restaurant Association™ Standards

http://www.dinegreen.com/restaurants.asp? The Green Restaurant Association strives to create a environmentally sustainable restaurant industry, where doing good for the environment is also good for the bottom line.

Greening Your Non-Profit From the Inside Out: A NeighborWorks Guide for Community Development Organizations. http://neighborworks.issuelab.org/research.

In 2008, NeighborWorks America made a formal commitment to “go green”. A key component of that initiative is to support our nationwide network of community development organizations in bringing green tools, building techniques, and healthy environmental impact to urban, suburban, and rural communities across America.

LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19 LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) http://www.aashe.org/stars/index.php STARS is a voluntary, self-reporting framework for gauging relative progress toward sustainability for colleges and universities.

Sustainble Library Design http://www.librisdesign.org/docs/SustainableLibDesign.pdf by Libris Design.