A Green Building is a Healthier One

For the Greener Good

Video from the National Building Museum

Presenter(s): Gregory Kats, Michelle Moore, Lisa Shpritz, Vivian Loftness,Robert Ivy
Date Recorded: February 25, 2010
Duration: 01:33:45
Sponsored by: The Home Depot Foundation

Can working in a green building make you healthier? And if you can prove this, would reduce a company’s health care insurance? Find out if this is a game changer when considering how and when to build sustainably. This panel included Gregory Kats, senior director and director of climate change policy, Good Energies; Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive, President’s Council on Environmental Quality; Lisa Shpritz, Senior Vice President, Corporate Workplace for Bank of America; Vivian Loftness, Professor, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, and Robert Ivy, Architectural Record Editor-In-Chief, moderator.

A Green Building is a Healthier One from National Building Museum.

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Learn more about the presenters:

• Gregory Kats
• Michelle Moore
• Lisa Shpritz
• Vivian Loftness

Additional information and background can be found on these sites:

• Greening our Built World: Costs, Benefits, and Strategies by Gregory Kats
• Carnegie Mellon’s Intelligent Workplace
• White House’s Council on Environmental Quality
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Designing and Building Healthy Places

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