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Creating Green, Affordable Neighborhoods: Get Funded, Get Educated, Get Started
The benefits of green building and smarter neighborhood planning and design should be available to everyone, regardless of household income level. We know that green communities foster good health through walkable streets, transit connectivity and proximity to resources. Green building and infrastructure reduce carbon emissions and conserve energy and resources. Collectively, these green neighborhood features drive community costs down and create cohesive, active settings. Shouldn’t everyone have access to green neighborhoods?
Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.
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Whitehall Middle School Carbon Busters Win National Eco Challenge
The Whitehall Middle School Carbon Busters are a group of seven middle school students who recently competed in the Lexus Eco Challenge to win scholarships and grant money and take action to improve the surrounding environment.
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How Our Advocates are Advancing Benchmarking Policy
In the last six months, 29 benchmarking bills and ordinances were introduced in cities and states across the country.
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Demand for Green Buildings Exceeds Workforce Supply
This morning, McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) released its latest SmartMarket Report, “Construction Industry Workforce Shortages: Role of Certification, Training and Green Jobs in Filling the Gaps.” The report, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council and the American Institute of Architects with support from other contributing partners, finds that 69 percent of architect, engineer and contractor professionals expect there to be a shortage of skilled labor in the next three years.
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Common Ground on Green Schools
Earlier this year, USGBC launched seven new advocacy campaigns designed to highlight our organization’s public policy priorities. And local advocates sure have responded. Most recently, USGBC South Carolina hosted a day-long summit inspired by USGBC’s Common Ground on Green Schools Campaign which brought together Palmetto state educators, government officials and legislators to discuss ways to put every South Carolinian child in a green school within a generation.
If Betty White Were a Green Building…
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Perhaps you’ve heard the idea that “the greenest building is the one already built.” Our friends in the historic preservation movement use this phrase to argue that t…
A Toast to LEED: Volume Program Brings Industry Leaders Together
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What happens when Kohl’s Department Stores, Wells Fargo, and Subway Restaurants walk in to a room?
At the USGBC offices, it means a great conversation on green building is about to ensue – among some of the foremost business leaders in sustainability.
Last month, we were thrilled to welcome participants in our LEED Volume Program to USGBC’s Washington, DC headquarters for full-day orientation seminars to kick-off their journey in scaling up with LEED.
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The 2012 Greenest School on Earth: Green School Bali
It’s been a very exciting few weeks at Green School Bali since the Center for Green School’s Rachel Gutter visited and presented us with the award as “2012 Greenest School on Earth.” There were close to 400 students, staff, parents and friends gathered in our beautiful open-air bamboo coliseum for an Earth Day assembly, and only a small handfu
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Southeastern Building Codes Welcome Greater Efficiency for Greater Savings
“Air conditioning saved the South.” I distinctly remember my high school American history teacher repeating this as we reviewed economic growth in the U.S. during the mid- to late twentieth century. Whether you believe that reduced perspiration leads to economic growth or that economic growth spurs the demand for comfortable, less humid spaces, evolving building practice has proven that we can build much more efficient buildings today if we have the right tools – and the Southeast is taking action.