Green building, also known as green architecture or sustainable building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are responsible to the environment and use efficiently the resources given throughout the whole building's life cycle: "from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction". This practice comes as an alternative to contemporary and industrial buildings that are now found all over the globe, which don't take care of environment and continue to massively pollute and destroy the nature we should all protect in stead.



Although new technologies are constantly being developed to contribute to a sustainable extinction towards the globe and to create greener structures, the common objective is that those green buildings diminish the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the nature by using the energy more efficiently, as well as water and other resources, protecting people against pollution and offering them greener alternatives to their jobs, or at least subventions for working in toxic environments such as mines or reducing the waste, pollution and all in all, the degradation of the environment which is no longer clean and green as we took it from our ancestors.

A similar concept but on a smaller scale is the so called natural building which tends to focus on the usage of natural and organic materials that are available locally as much as possible. There are several materials that are rated as being green and therefore, used in local constructions of homes and small buildings which protect and not harm the environment, such as wood and its composers, recycled plastic, natural fibers, glass, bamboo or even recycled rocks, toxic-free fabrics and paintings.



The goals of green building are many, but among them, the most important is reducing the pollution and help build a greener Earth both for us as well as for our children to come. The concept of sustainable development can be traced to the energy crisis and the environment pollution concern in the 1970s. Thus, people have started paying more attention to what effects these standard energy resources have upon lands and waters and tryed see into the future and looking for non abusive ways to light the streets and not only, by using solar panels which attracts solar energy, wind turbines and water centrals.



Yet, not only governments and ecologists have attended to this massive green movement, but more and more people from all milieus have started concerning about the environment also; this is why, we all are trying to make efforts for a more sustainable green life style, by buying local and organic products, using energy resources more effectively, by recycling and other small steps which, gathered together, can have a huge benefic impact upon environment, in addition to developers who are implementing more and more green technologies in their architectures and buildings.