These terms will allow you to become more versed on the phraseology of green building and sustainable design.

• Air Pollution

• Biodegradables

• Brownfield

• Building Envelope

• Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)

• Building-Related Illness (BRI)

• Captured Rainwater

• Certified Wood

• Chain of Custody

• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
• Construction Waste Management Plan (CWMP)

• Cradle-to-Cradle

• Cradle-to-Grave

• Daylighting

• Embodied Energy

• Energy Efficient

• Energy Star¨ Rating

• Environmentally Friendly

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

• Flush Outing occupancy

• Formaldehyde

• Fossil Fuels

• Graywater

• GreenGuardª

• Hazardous Waste

• High Performance Green Building

• Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)

• Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)

• Integrated Design Team

• LEEDª

• Life-Cycle Assessment

• Life-Cycle Cost

• Low Toxic

• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

• Non-Renewable

• Ozone Layer

• Photovoltaic (PV)

• Pollution Prevention

• Post-Consumer

• Post-Industrial or Pre-Consumer

• Rapidly Renewable

• Recyclability

• Recycled/Recovered Materials

• Recycling

• Resource Efficiency

• Renewable Energy

• Remanufacturing

• Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

• Sustainable Yield vs. Ecologically Sustainable Forestry

• Thermal Comfort

• Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)