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  • My story: Becoming a green professional

    Published on: 
    8 May 2014

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    The road to becoming a green building professional has been a winding journey fashioned by surprises, luck, and good old-fashioned hard work. It was a pathway I knew I wanted to embark on a decade after my initial peek into the expansive and often intimidating built environment. The forces of constant exposure and interactions with various fields and members of the building industry consumed my passion. I realized sustainability was my calling within architecture. How could I contribute?

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  • Join us at the 7th EE Global Forum in Washington, DC

    Published on: 
    7 May 2014
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    Registrations are still available to attend the energy efficiency forum of the year: EE Global 2014. With the 7th EE Global Forum quickly approaching, now is the time to confirm your plans to join USGBC and other leaders in Washington, D.C., May 20-21.

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  • Green Building 101: What is an integrated process?

    Published on: 
    7 May 2014

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    Need a quick refresher on green building basics? This is our “Green Building 101” series that we’ll publish throughout the month. We’ll visit topics that form the foundation of our understanding of green building today..

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  • Now available: Free translated study guides

    Published on: 
    7 May 2014
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    Updated June 15, 2014: These resources are no longer available.

    Taking the LEED Green Associate or LEED AP with specialty exam?

    Translated study guides (LEED 2009) are now available for free. Study with our comprehensive LEED Green Associate and LEED AP study guides.

    Get your LEED education direct from the source, and prepare for your LEED professional exam in Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.

    Arabic

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  • CCN saves 2.2 million kWh in fourth year!

    Published on: 
    6 May 2014
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    More than 265,000 students at 109 colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada participated in Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) 2014, competing to reduce their energy and water use on campus. Collectively, they saved over 2.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity — equivalent to averting 3million pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere or taking 201 homes off the grid for a year. Students also saved nearly 476,000 gallons of water, or the equivalent of 1.8 million water bottles. With energy and water combined, CCN saved schools an estimate total of $198,000.

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  • Webinar: Health, wellbeing and productivity in office buildings

    Published on: 
    6 May 2014
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    Green, healthy and productive office buildings: measuring the benefits and sharing best practice

    This major WorldGBC project is underway, and we want to hear from GBCs and their members, all around the world. Join us for an interactive webinar led by people directly involved in its development. 

    You’ll hear about the preliminary findings from our research into best practice in designing and operating healthy buildings globally, and have a chance to share your views on this important topic.

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  • Outstanding projects around the world

    Published on: 
    5 May 2014
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    LEED projects can be found in over 140 countries and territories around the world and on six out of seven continents — there are no LEED projects in Antarctica, but you never know what the future holds. 

    East Asia

    Haworth Showroom in the Parkview Green (Beijing, China), the first project in the world to certify under LEED v4, the latest version of LEED

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  • Top 10 countries for LEED

    Published on: 
    5 May 2014
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    LEED projects can be found in over 140 countries and territories around the world and on six out of seven continents — there are no LEED projects in Antarctica, but you never know what the future holds.

    To provide a better view of LEED’s impact globally, we’ve ranked the top 10 countries for LEED outside of the U.S.. Looking at the gross square meters of certified space around the globe, we came up with the list below.

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  • National College Competition Saves 3 Million Pounds of CO2 and 476,000 Gallons of Water

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    Student Behavior Changes Make Big Impact During Campus Conservation Nationals 2014

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  • Mexico’s green building boom in photos

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    Photo credit: Flickr user Paul Stein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/kapkap/)

    Happy Cinco de Mayo! It may not be the real Mexican Independence Day (that’s Sept. 16), but it’s still a great opportunity to take a look at the LEED green building activity taking place in our neighbor to the south.

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