Last week, hundreds of architects stormed Washington as part of the American Institute of Architects’ annual Grassroots Leadership and Legislative Conference. Grassroots serves as a forum to convene AIA’s extensive local chapter network, with which USGBC’s local chapters often collaborate. Partnerships are the primary tools in any advocacy organization’s tool belt; however, the ongoing collaboration between the U.S.
The first annual Arkansas Green Schools Challenge is coming to a close, and a great article was recently published on the program in February’s Arkansas Green Guide magazine.The Challenge was a joint effort between the USGBC-Arkansas Chapter and the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators (AAEA).
It’s a great time to be an existing building.
First: President Obama released last year’s Better Buildings Initiative, focusing financing opportunities on commercial retrofits.
Then: USGBC reported that LEED for Existing Buildings project square footage surpassed new construction projects.
Here at USGBC we often say that green building sits at the nexus of saving energy, saving people and businesses money, and creating jobs.
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LEED is a living document. Its evolution is critical to the transformation of the buildings industry, connecting the market to innovative ways of thinking about the design, construction and operation of green buildings. The power of LEED is its abilit…
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We’re excited to announce that the USGBC blog has moved to the new USGBC.org website.
Head there now to check out our recent posts, including:
3 Things You Need to Know About Energy Data & LEED
The Building Happiness Metric, and
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Library provides a proving ground for LEED users to guide the improvement of LEED rating system
Washington, DC – (Mar. 2, 2012) – The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) next update to the LEED green building program, LEED 2012, will include various updates to credits within the LEED Pilot Credit Library. As a flexible, interactive mechanism for testing proposed credits in the marketplace, the Pilot Credit Library gathers real-time feedback on credit usability and ability to meet a credit’s intent.
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Last week marked the kick-off of the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs (GJGJ) Conference. The founding premise of the BlueGreen Alliance was to marry the aims of organized labor and environmentalists in common support of good, green jobs. This eclectic, yet compatible, mix of attendees makes GJGJ different from your typical green jobs affair. For the conference’s fifth anniversary, GJGJ left Washington, DC and hit the road with a series of four regional conferences.
First Stop: Atlanta.