various initiatives in green manufacturing, waste management and green building. For example, local building assessment systems can be designed to specifically support regional waste diversion, green power, natural building, or even green job creation initiatives. Virtually every area has strategic hot-button issues, as for example, Torontos municipal waste crisis. The latter is fertile ground for deconstruction as well as ecoindustrial development initiatives. For the economy as a whole, values and vision are again the starting point. Green development plans, coupled with indicator projects, are crucial to grounding green development in specific targets and criteria. Incubation centres for green enterprise development can be guided by those plans and indicators. The plans and indicators also guide initiatives in green jobs training and education. At the moment, the educational system does a poor job in providing appropriate skills for regenerative economic development. The system is not generating the necessary solar collector and green roof installers, permaculture designers, deconstruction workers, industrial ecologists, etc. Universities can also be major contributors to the research necessary for knowledge-intensive eco-development and indicator systems (Milani, 2001). The state, from local to federal levels, can be involved with the range of tax, procurement, and subsidy initiatives described in Chapter VII, while it takes on more coordination of green development. The primary intention of this thesis, however, is not to propose specific development plans, but to survey the range of aspects of materials transformation in building which are rarely considered together. Communities, builders, designers and regulators need to see for themselves where the opportunities and openings lay for