What happens when you gather 76 passionate and informed professionals in a room to discuss challenges and opportunities at the intersection of health, materials, and the built environment? Progress.
You’ve spent the last few months preparing for your LEED Green Associate or LEED AP with specialty exam. Here’s what you should know to make sure your exam day goes as planned.
Join USGBC and StreetLight Data for a webinar to learn more about whether cellular based metrics can improve commute assessments.
2:00–3:00 pm EDT
Thursday, March 27, 2014
RSVP
Travel behavior associated with commercial office buildings has far-reaching environmental, health and business impacts.
In 2013, the Center for Green Schools reached further, leveraged greater and invested more than we ever have. How do we know? We are maniacal about tracking our work – whether it be the number of people we engage, the number of resources we distribute or the way people talk about our work in the media, their social networks or in surveys.
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we’re taking a look at some of the LEED green buildings in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Collectively, the two states have seven LEED-certified projects representing 1.1 million square feet, with another 32 projects representing 2.8 million square feet in the pipeline for certification.
Washington, D.C. — March 17, 2014 — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named Heather Joy Rosenberg, an independent sustainability consultant, as its 2014-2015 Mark Ginsberg Sustainability Fellow. In this role, she will provide thought leadership on issues of social equity and the built environment.
At the U.S. Green Building Council, we are leading a global effort to create more sustainable world, and our impact extends well beyond buildings. We’re about protecting the environment and working to build better and stronger communities.
Which is why I’m thrilled to introduce a new partnership between USGBC and the Harvard School of Public Health: The Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program.
To accommodate the expected increase in urban population of 2 billion people before 2030, will require the equivalent of 200 new cities the size of Paris.[1]
Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips:
GM Has First LEED Certified Plant In South America, Hybrid Cars News. The Joinville, Brazil, plant is General Motors’ sixth LEED-certified facility.
Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips:
GM Has First LEED Certified Plant In South America, Hybrid Cars News. The Joinville, Brazil, plant is General Motors’ sixth LEED-certified facility.