General Resources

• Smart Growth America website.
• Architecture 2030 website.
• Congress for New Urbanism website.

State / Local Information

• Energy Conservation for Ohioans (ECO-Link) Program - weatherization financing 
• Ohio EnergyStar partner contractors and builders
• Northeast Ohio Chapter of the USGBC website
  • Incentives
  • Case studies
• City of Cleveland Green Building Handbook
• American Housing Survey for Cleveland, Ohio Metropolitan Area: 2004.  Link.
• Ohio Home Weatherization Assistance Program (HWAP) Impact Evaluation, Ohio Office of Energy Efficiency, July 6, 2006.
• Energy Saving Tips for Your Home, Environmental Health Watch brochure.  

Building and Neighborhood Certification Programs 

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - LEED
• EnergyStar
• International Living Building Institute website
  • Living Building Challenge Version 1.3 standard manual

Code Resources

• Standard 189 (ASHRAE)
• International Green Construction Code (IGCC) 
  • Aligns with AIA 2030 carbon neutrality goals

Tools

• 2030 Challenge building energy goal calculator.
• EnergyStar Tools and Resources Library for buildings

Background Material

• Regional Green Building Case Study: A post occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois,  Fall 2009.
• Unlocking energy efficiency in the U.S. economy, McKinsey & Company, July 2009.
• The 2030 Blueprint: Solving Climate Change Saves Billions, Good for the Economy, Jobs, Architecture 2030, April 7, 2008. 
• Meeting the 2030 Challenge Through Building Codes, Architecture 2030, June 20, 2008.  
• The Presidential Climate Action Project.  Website. 
  • Buildings Section.
  • Full Plan. 
• Brown, Marilyn, Frank Southworth, Therese K. Stovall, Towards a Climate Friendly Built Environment, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, June 2005. 
• Reid Ewing and Fang Rong, The Impact of Urban Form on US Residential Energy Use.

OP-ED and News Pieces

• Barringer, Felicity, White Roofs Catch on as Energy Cost Cutters, New York Times, July 29, 2009. 
  • Imagining a cool roof nation: potential CO2 emission reduction map
• Friedman, Thomas, Green the Bailout, New York Times Editorial,  Sept. 27. 2008. 
• Roosevelt, Margot, To slow global warming, install white roofs, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2008.