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U.S. Green Building Council

Environmental section info

As for the new generation, people are needing to collect themselves and see what is going on in society. With the USGBC, they are taking what they know and making life a little easier. With USGBC there are many benefits such as environmental, economic, health and the community. These benefits range from "improving air and water" to "enhancing occupants comfort and health". There is 20 percent of Americans that spend their lives in school, and making the school green will help teach the students about the economy. With the help of making schools green, USGBC is building green houses as well, which will "reduce utility bills" and "children with asthma." As houses are turning green residents will become "free from asthma" within the first week or next, where as in ordinary homes residents continue to have asthma. When the schools become green, the students will be able to work faster on math and reading. With stores becoming green, their sales will increase "40 percent than those with artificial light." Even through different lighting, patients will improve in their health. Having green buildings the health problems will decrease, which include: respiratory disease, allergies, asthma, and syndrome symptoms.

For the need of green houses, there will be a 10 percent raise in the house market. With the increase of buildings aging, there's an energy consumption that could strain working productivity. Residential areas are responsible for "54.6 percent of energy consumption" and "21 percent of Carbon Dioxide emissions." This brings this to the electricity in sleep mode which has increase 8 percent from the 2 percent back in 1980.

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Plug in America

Environmental section

By working with a variety of public and private organizations and industries, Plug In America strives to "revive plug-in auto producion" in order to promote "cleaner, cheaper, domestic sources of energy." In its efforts, the organization has been successful in obtaining support from environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, and automobile corporations, such as Toyota and GM, and more recently, in forming political alliances with the Bush administration.

According to Plug In America, hybrid cars will lower air pollutants, but emissions of burning coal will raise. Regardless of the energy source that fuels them, electric hybrids not only produce substantially less greenhouse gasses than gas-fueled vehicles, but also less than conventional hybrid cars.Substantially the electric hybrid wouldn't need twice the amount of oil the United States imports each day from Saudi Arabia because 70% of the oil is consumed for transportation. If over 50% Americans bought plug-in hybrids by 2050, there would be a small increase in electricity, which wouldn't require a surge at night when demand of electricity is low.

"California Air Resource Board CARB rejected the staff’s proposal to shrink the number of Zero-emission vehicle ZEVs required of automakers in 2012-2014 from 25,000 down to 2,500 vehicles, and instead set the target at 5,357 vehicles – an improvement from the low numbers staff proposed, yet only 70% of current regulations."

As of right now there isn't a delivery system yet for hydrogen cars only, but the system is being worked out.