Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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design?" So basically, what's new is, frankly, it's
getting old in the sense that, thank heavens it is
getting old, because it is becoming mainstream. And
no longer is it an interesting experiment. It's
really mainstream. It's not an exotic thing
anymore. It's becoming normal. Even in our own
practice, which you know, there's a bit of a
generation gap in this industry.
You know, those of us older practitioners,
I'll say, think that they were always designing
green and what's new about it? But now, we find
that things are coming around full circle in the
sense that we used to talk about ecology, if anybody
remembers that word from the 60s and we talked about
all of this back then, but now we are back to making
all that very normal.
And I think the push really is coming from,
next slide, you know, government. What is happening
is that most people, and government is taking a lead
here, most people think, and there's a survey done
by the AIA, and by the way, I represent the AIA on
this panel who is an early and enthusiastic partner
of the USGBC in green building design for quite a
while now, and has done a recent survey on this
issue and found that most people, 75 percent of the
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