PS 166

Yesterday, we used Greentech Media's 2009 year-end round-up as a way into a (much) longer post about how government is changing/creating the green building landscape. One item from Michael Kanellos' roundup to which we did not link, though, was this one -- on the emergence of schools as a major component of the green-retrofit marketplace. As a consequence of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- better known by its nickname, The Stimulus -- billions of federal dollars are slated for green retrofits on government buildings; because schools own their own (often inefficent) buildings, they're expected to jump at the chance to improve building performance. But this post isn't really about that.