Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Sponsoring Organizations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Costs and Benefits of Green Building -- 1.1. Methodology -- 1.2. The Cost of Building Green -- 1.3. Energy-Use Reductions -- 1.4. Advanced Energy-Use Reductions -- Perspective: Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park -- 1.5. Water-Related Savings -- Perspective: Water-Saving Strategies: Oregon Health Sciences University Center for Health and Healing -- 1.6. Green Affordable Housing: Enterprise's Green Communities Initiative -- 1.7. Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Buildings -- Perspective: Birth of the Green Branch Bank -- 1.8. Green Health Care: Assessing Costs and Benefits -- 1.9. Employment Benefits of Green Buildings -- Perspective: Green Building as Corporate Social Responsibility -- 1.10. Property Value Impacts of Building Green -- Perspective: Investing in Brownfields -- Perspective: Measuring Consumer Demand for Green Homes -- 1.11. Net Financial Impacts of Green Buildings for Owners and Occupants -- Part II: Costs and Benefits of Green Community Design -- 2.1. What Is a Green Community? -- 2.2. Setting the Stage for Sustainable Urbanism -- 2.3. Financial Impacts of Green Community Design -- 2.4. Transportation and Health Impacts of Green Community Design -- Perspective: Monitoring Performance at the LEED Platinum Center For Neighborhood Technology -- 2.5. Property Value and Market Impacts -- 2.6. The Market Rediscovers Walkable Urbanism -- 2.7. Social Impacts of Green Communities -- 2.8. Cost Savings in Ecologically Designed Conservation Developments -- 2.9. International Green Building -- Perspective: Green Buildings in China -- Perspective: A Greener Economic Recovery -- 2.10. Financial Impact of Green Communities -- Part III: Communities of Faith Building Green.

3.1. Faith Groups in the Green Vanguard -- 3.2. Methodology and Findings -- 3.3. Motivation -- 3.4. Impact of Green Buildings in Faith Communities -- 3.5. Financial Stewardship -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Part IV: Green Design, Climate Change, and the Economy: Potential Impacts in the United States -- 4.1. Energy Consumption -- 4.2. Renewable Energy -- 4.3. Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- 4.4. Financial Impact -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Data-Collection Methodology -- Appendix B: Source List -- Appendix C: Green Building Data Set -- Appendix D: Comparison of Data Set to LEED-New Construction Buildings -- Appendix E: Baselines Used in Cost and Benefits Estimates -- Appendix F: Issues in Researching the Cost of Green Building -- Appendix G: Cost of Energy-Efficiency and Renewable-Energy Measures -- Appendix H: Energy-Use Baselines and Standards -- Appendix I: Verifying the Energy Performance of LEED Buildings -- Appendix J: Assumptions Used for Calculations of Water Savings -- Appendix K: Green Building Survey Instrument -- Appendix L: Global Assumptions for Part IV -- About the Authors -- Notes -- Index.