This week, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) welcomed nearly 25,000 green building professionals to Philadelphia for its 12th annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, the world’s largest gathering dedicated to green building.
Here’s our weekly collection of green building in the media, Greenbuild edition:
Keynote with Hillary Clinton:
About 20 years ago, someone tried to describe a brand to me thusly: imagine in your mind a small, long rectangular white box on a store shelf. By itself, that box means nothing to the average consumer. But place a small red triangle on that box, along with the letters…C…r…e…s…t…and what you have is something else altogether. At that point, to millions of Americans that small box immediately means to them fewer cavities, fresher breath and whiter teeth.
About 20 years ago, someone tried to describe a brand to me thusly: imagine in your mind a small, long rectangular white box on a store shelf. By itself, that box means nothing to the average consumer. But place a small red triangle on that box, along with the letters…C…r…e…s…t…and what you have is something else altogether. At that point, to millions of Americans that small box immediately means to them fewer cavities, fresher breath and whiter teeth.
About 20 years ago, someone tried to describe a brand to me thusly: imagine in your mind a small, long rectangular white box on a store shelf. By itself, that box means nothing to the average consumer. But place a small red triangle on that box, along with the letters…C…r…e…s…t…and what you have is something else altogether. At that point, to millions of Americans that small box immediately means to them fewer cavities, fresher breath and whiter teeth.
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90 percent of Americans agree that more money needs to go toward fixing our nation’s school facilities
90 percent of Americans agree that more money needs to go toward fixing our nation’s school facilities
Every year since 2001 I have attended Greenbuild as part of Malcolm Lewis’s team from CTG. Malcolm was an innovator, instigator, guru and wise man of the green building movement. And nobody loved Greenbuild more than Malcolm. Like a kid in a candy shop, Malcolm was bright eyed with enthusiasm about all the information to learn, all the opportunities to create, and most importantly, all the friends to embrace.
Tuesday night at a reception on the eve of Greenbuild, one of our featured guests and I – she being a Washington insider – began talking about what she described “the lost art of governing.” It was a fascinating conversation, the details of which are probably better served for another place and another time. But suffice it to say I now know I’m not alone in my belief that so many of today’s leaders on both sides of the aisle clearly have forsaken their duties as leaders in governing and allowed themselves