The Stanford University Center for Integrated Facility Engineering has recently published a study comparing "designed" vs. "operated" energy performance, that includes LEED discussion.

"BOMA International is pleased to announce the development of the BOMA 360 Performance Program, a groundbreaking new program designed to validate and recognize commercial properties that demonstrate best practices in all major areas of building operations and management. A BOMA 360 Performance Building designates that a property is being managed to the highest standards of excellence."

"Business survival today is dependent on information, sustainability, and profitability. Greenergy2030 is dedicated to partnering with clients to meet all three of these challenges. We offer practical resources to those entrepreneurs and managers that are seeking to transform their organizations into successful, eco-friendly companies. We deliver solutions that offer a rapid ROI, real benefits, and quantifiable results in exciting new ways."

“At Global Footprint Network our programs are designed to influence decision makers at all levels of society and to create a critical mass of powerful institutions using the Footprint to put an end to ecological overshoot and get our economies back into balance."

Green Workplace Blog
“About the Editor: Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, aka "Greenette," has spent her career focused on green design and workplace behavior and as well as a variety of workplace and facility planning projects in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. She works for HOK, a global architectural firm in their Washington, D.C. office and was recently named to the list of top “40 Under 40” young AEC industry professionals by Building Design + Construction magazine.”

Sustainable Buildings Industry Council
“SBIC’s long-standing commitment to better buildings began back in the late ‘70’s with a focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy use.  By the 1990s, SBIC was working with GSA, DoD, EPA and DOE to develop the Sustainability Principles for Executive Order 13123: Optimize Site Potential, Minimize Energy Use and Use Renewable Energy Strategies, Conserve and Protect Water, Use Environmentally Preferable Products, Enhance Indoor Environmental Quality, and Optimize Operations and Maintenance Practices. This activity coincided with SBIC expanding its reach to cover the broader issues of sustainability (not just energy). SBIC conceptualized the Whole Building Design Guide, along with our partners at NAVFAC, GSA, DoD and other federal agencies.”

Renewable Energy Policy Project
“REPP's goal is to accelerate the use of renewable energy by providing credible information, insightful policy analysis, and innovative strategies amid changing energy markets and mounting environmental needs by researching, publishing, and disseminating information, creating policy tools, and hosting highly active, on-line, renewable energy discussion groups.

REPP supports the advancement of renewable energy technology through policy research. REPP seeks to define growth strategies for renewables that respond to competitive energy markets and environmental needs. Since its inception in 1995, REPP has investigated the relationship among policy, markets and public demand in accelerating the deployment of renewable energy, which include biomass, hydropower, geothermal, photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind and renewable hydrogen. The organization offers a platform from which experts in the field can examine issues of medium-to long-term importance to policy makers, green energy entrepreneurs, and environmental advocates.”

Sustainable Sources
“Sustainable Sources was founded in 1994 by Bill Christensen as a means to spread information about green building and related fields in an efficient, inexpensive way over the then-new world wide web.

Our many years of work on the internet can be a tremendous advantage to you - we routinely clean up confusing and slow loading sites, provide fundamental knowledge about making your site “search engine worthy”, and provide site owners and webmasters with tips and tricks to enhance your site.”

Cool Companies
The Center was founded in 1999 by Dr. Joe Romm – former head of energy efficiency and renewables at the US Department of Energy – to promote clean and efficient energy technologies as a money-saving tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. We help businesses, government, and environmental organizations develop technological, strategic, financial, and regulatory tools to foster the adoption of clean solutions. 

The Center helps companies design and implement strategies to cut energy use and pollution – particularly the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming. We develop institutional ‘best practices’ for greenhouse gas reduction, and provide neutral, credible verification of emissions baselines and reductions. We also partner with outside organizations to promote these approaches using performance-based data and contemporary case studies presented through a variety of channels.

Smart Communities
“We offer great resources, tools, links to articles and publications, and community success stories on a variety of topics from Community Energy, to Green Development, to Sustainable Business. We hope these resources will help you strengthen your local economy, improve and protect the quality of your local environment, enhance the quality of life in your community, and build towards a more sustainable future.”

Green Living store in Lake Highlands
“Green Living is a retail store based in Dallas, Texas that offers Earth-friendly products for everyday use and unique "green" products that we're excited to introduce.  More than that, we like to call Green Living a community resource center, because not only do we provide our patrons with a wide range of recycled, organic, and fairly-traded goods for the home, we are a place of information about local and global Earth issues and a place to learn about living green.”