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  • Greenbuilders: Taking on Health and the Built Environment

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

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    It’s great to be back at Greenbuild!

    Through this year’s agenda, USGBC is courageously leading a rapidly emerging conversation in our industry: How can the places we build and operate contribute to the health and wellbeing of the people who work and live there. It makes sense, right? We spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so it follows that our homes, offices, and schools would have a profound impact on us.

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  • Greenbuilders: Taking on Health and the Built Environment

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

    Feature image: 

    It’s great to be back at Greenbuild!

    Through this year’s agenda, USGBC is courageously leading a rapidly emerging conversation in our industry: How can the places we build and operate contribute to the health and wellbeing of the people who work and live there. It makes sense, right? We spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so it follows that our homes, offices, and schools would have a profound impact on us.

    read more

  • Greenbuilders: Taking on Health and the Built Environment

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

    Feature image: 

    It’s great to be back at Greenbuild!

    Through this year’s agenda, USGBC is courageously leading a rapidly emerging conversation in our industry: How can the places we build and operate contribute to the health and wellbeing of the people who work and live there. It makes sense, right? We spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so it follows that our homes, offices, and schools would have a profound impact on us.

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  • An Invitation to Dream

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

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    Photo Credit: Marisa Long

    Dear Dreamers:  

    We are the Holland sisters, Kylie (14), Devon (13) and Piper (11).  We believe kids can make a difference in the world and age doesn’t limit a person’s ability to have ideas, make plans, take action and help others.

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  • An Invitation to Dream

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

    Feature image: 
    Photo Credit: Marisa Long

    Dear Dreamers:  

    We are the Holland sisters, Kylie (14), Devon (13) and Piper (11).  We believe kids can make a difference in the world and age doesn’t limit a person’s ability to have ideas, make plans, take action and help others.

    read more

  • An Invitation to Dream

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

    Feature image: 
    Photo Credit: Marisa Long

    Dear Dreamers:  

    We are the Holland sisters, Kylie (14), Devon (13) and Piper (11).  We believe kids can make a difference in the world and age doesn’t limit a person’s ability to have ideas, make plans, take action and help others.

    read more

  • The Center for Green Schools at USGBC Launches Global Coalition for Green Schools

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013
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     29 countries join coalition to support healthy, sustainable schools for all students around the world 

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  • Global Coalition for Green Schools

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013
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    The Center for Green Schools at USGBC Launches Global Coalition for Green Schools 

     29 countries join coalition to support healthy, sustainable schools for all students around the world 

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  • 20 years of USGBC: LEED then and now

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    Open Position

    Published on: 
    19 Nov 2013

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    I have a vivid memory of an architecture professor telling me that thinking about sustainability was a waste of time – no one outside academia would bother with that kind of silly obsession. This was Missouri in the 1990s, when a gallon of gas cost less than a dollar and “green” was a paint color. I stubbornly pushed onward despite the disparagement – as I am prone to doing – and ultimately discovered that jobs in green building did, in fact, exist.

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  • Importance of Green Buildings Stressed by Business and Industry at UN Climate Negotiations

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    Story
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    18 Nov 2013
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    Globally, buildings account for 40% of energy use, 38% of greenhouse gas emissions, 12% of potable water and 20% of solid waste streams in developed countries. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified buildings as the greatest impact, least costly way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. Beyond emissions reduction and environmental protection, green buildings have extensive co-benefits, including cost-savings, job creation, and improved human health and productivity.

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