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What Makes Buildings Green? The beginning of the twenty-first century has ushered in the era of green buildings. According to some estimates, there are approximately 81 million buildings in the United States.1 Most of these buildings use energy inefficiently, generate large amounts of waste in their construction and operation, and emit large quantities of pollutants