Big Green: Green Building Racket?

[Dean Sherwin]

At 04:00 PM 9/7/2007, Robbie Sweetser wrote:
>Over an 11-year period (1973­1983), the US built approx. 30 billion square
>feet of new buildings, added approx. 35 million new vehicles and increased
>real GDP by one trillion dollars while decreasing its energy consumption and
>CO2  emissions.


Where do these statistics come from, I 
wonder?  How did that happen? (decrease in 
emissions)  Are we currently decreasing (which 
should be the case with Energy Star & other 
measures) or increasing (hence the need for more 
coal fired power plants) our emissions ?  I do 
not believe there has ever been a period of decrease.   But will bow to data.
and how does the increase map to the population 
size?  Which has grown but not that much.
It's about the lifestyle...

Dean Sherwin