Give green to get green.(knowitall)(Brief article)

An estimated 0.2 percent of all federally funded research, or an average of $193 million per year, is spent on green building research, according to information from a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) study published in 2007.

Green Building Research Funding: An Assessment of Current Activity in the United States charts the money and resources allocated to green building research in order to identify gaps in scientific and technical information as they relate to sustainable building design.

Of the research funding allocated to green buildings, most funding went to researching green buildings' impact on energy and the atmosphere. About 45 percent of the energy research was related to energy efficiency topics; about 54 percent supported renewable energy technologies; and 1 percent related to other atmospheric issues. The report also noted the U.S. Department of Energy is by far the largest funder of building-related energy and atmosphere research.

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