It is easy and tempting to boil down green building
to simply product selections and glide over, or even ignore, the challenges of green building as a process.
The REGREEN Program and the REGREEN Guidelines are about products and process, about synergies and unintended consequences. In green building, it is rarely a single product or building component or a collection of attributes that result in a building being labeled “green.” Green building is almost always about how systems or the whole building work together to reduce environmental impacts. In the REGREEN Guidelines, systems-thinking and integration is represented by the cross-listing of strategies by project and environmental category, as well as by the “potential issues” section of each strategy write-up. In the electronic version of the REGREEN Guidelines, an extensive system of electronic links brings about the systems integration and “ankle bone connected to the leg bone” nature of green residential remodeling.

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