The document emphasizes the importance of historic preservation as a form of green building, highlighting its environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability benefits. It argues that preserving existing buildings promotes energy efficiency, creates local jobs, and retains cultural memories, making it a responsible choice for sustainable development. The message is clear: preservation is not only environmentally beneficial but also vital for local economies and community identity.

1. “old is the new green!”The Greenest Building is one that’s Already There

2. Historic Preservation & Green BuildingWhat is Green Building?

3. “Green Building” is“Sustainable Design”Environmental SustainabilityEconomic SustainabilityCultural Sustainability

4. Environmental Sustainability… Energy Efficiency Embodied Energy RecyclingHistoric Preservation is the Ultimate Recycling

5. Environmental SustainabilityEnergy efficiency includes high performance utilities and equipment as well as conserving the energy we do useEmbodied energy is the cost of creating or replacing the materials that are already in that existing building Recycling an historic building includes adapting it to new uses so that it can be used for many more years

6. Economic Sustainability… Local Jobs Local Investment Local ValueHistoric Preservation Equals Good Jobs & Good Pay

7. Economic SustainabilityPreserving an existing building creates more long term local jobs than building one new buildingMoney paid to workers gets spent locally, they buy tools, get hair cuts, and go out to lunch or dinnerWell maintained older and historic buildings retain their value at a higher level than new construction

8. Cultural Sustainability… Smart Growth Affordable Housing Cultural MemoriesHistoric Preservation is Our Past and Our Future

9. Cultural SustainabilitySmart Growth principles are all met when a community invests in its existing buildings and historic places Typically old building are the most affordable for both commercial and residential uses, this promotes a vibrant and livable placeWithout memories nothing has value, our history is captured and preserved in the buildings around us

10. Sustainability Means Responsibility Responsibility Means Stewardship“Sustainability means stewardship. There can be no sustainable development without a central role for historic preservation. That’s what you all are doing today, and future generations will thank you for it tomorrow” Donovan Rypkema, Traditional Building, Boston

11. Historic Preservation is Green BuildingIt is good for the environmentIt creates good jobs for the local economyIt preserves our history for future generations

12. Preserve Our BuildingsConserve the EnvironmentIt is better to preserve than to repairIt is better to repair than to restoreIt is better to restore than to reconstructA. N. Dideron1839