The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ now has a LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance component. Points are awarded for a number of e-green practices, including telecommuting and sustainable purchases of IT and media electronics. Use of EPEAT-rated computers and monitors is specifically noted as "exemplary performance".

Vertatique readers in the real estate industry will be interested to note a new study by CoStar Group that reports, "sustainable "green" buildings outperform their non-green peer assets in key areas such as occupancy, sale price and rental rates, sometimes by wide margins."