The Green Space Project ™certification system is all about doing as much as we can to minimize the impact our buildings have on the planet. We don’t propose any new and crazy ideas. Just solid ways to economically impact our world in a positive way and we recognize that the key to success is in the marketing and public relations message to the community. This greatly enhances the property owner's ability to profit from the project.
Did you know?
· That 40% of all the energy used in the world is by buildings
· 67% of all electricity used in America is by buildings
· 12% of all water used in America is by buildings
· There are over 4.4 million non mall buildings in the America
· Almost 40% of all electricity used in a building is from lighting
· 47% of all buildings are under 5000 square feet
· Cooking and refrigeration account for 11% of all electrical use
· Computers and office equipment use 6.5% of all electricity
· Lighting, cooking, refrigeration, computers and office equipment together account for 57.5% of all electricity used in a building.
· This represents 704 billion Kilowatt hours of electricity
If just 1% of America’s buildings would reduce their energy consumption by 1% in these areas, we would get the following:
· A Kilowatt hour reduction of around 90 million per year
· An economic savings of around $70 million dollars a year (based on $.0775/kwh avg cost)
· A reduction of over 80,00 tons of CO2 produced
· The equivalent green house gas reduction of taking almost 24,000 cars of the road for a year
We believe the time is right to make protecting the environment, saving money, and being recognized in the community available and affordable to all who have a desire to be a leader in this movement.
Statistics derived from CEBCS 2003 all building survey