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New Article Shows How Green Buildings Promote Human Rights

By Josh Gellers, PhD on 11 Oct 2016 • 3 minute read

USGBC began to explore the connections between green buildings, health, and human rights in 2013, when it offered initial findings and encouraged further research in a report from the Summit on Green Building and Human Health. Those links recently received strong legal …

Addressing Human Rights through Architecture

By Raphael Sperry on 02 Mar 2015 • 2 minute read

As a member of USGBC’s Social Equity Working Group and as president of the independent nonprofit organization Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (www.adpsr.org), I was very excited to see the New York Times cover the question of human rights in …

UNITAR-Yale White Paper Links Human Rights and Green Buildings

By Josh Gellers, PhD on 25 Sep 2014 • 2 minute read

In January 2013, the USGBC published a report from the Summit on Green Building and Human Health which began to identify the links between green buildings, health, and human rights and urged further research in this emerging area. Less than two years later, the first ma …