 definitions. In the past several years, various counties and cities have adopted their own green-building codes, complicating the marketplace. CalGreen was an opportunity to address that problem by simplifying statewide requirements. It appears it will end up doing just the opposite—increasing complexity by introducing even more local green-building codes.
These issues aside, and forgetting for the moment that CalGreen does not address existing buildings (California’s HERS II program, still being tweaked as of this writing, is supposed to do that), it’s a step in the right direction. There’s a saying: As California goes, so goes the rest of the country. CalGreen may be a vehicle that helps propel other states to adopt tougher green-building codes. In our wildest dreams, it could even be the legislation that persuades the federal government to adopt a strict national green-building code. Wouldn’t that be something?
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