Continuing Education (CE) hours from Greenbuild 2011 sessions have been reported to GBCI and uploaded to Credential Maintenance Program accounts. All LEED Professionals who attended Greenbuild should log onto their My Credentials account to see if their courses have been successfully reported. Check in the ‘Pending CMP Activity’ section.
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Center Spotlight: Pat Lane, USGBC Students Program Lead
Pat oversees USGBC Students, which recruits, connects and equips the next generation of green building leaders by empowering them to transform their campuses, communities and careers. In his role, Pat leads the effort and growth of the USGBC Students p…
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November 2011 Green Schools Committee Digest
While many of us are turning the focus of our free time towards holiday preparation, sale-scouting and travel planning, USGBC’s volunteers continue to be hard at work on behalf of green schools. To learn more about the recent happenings of Green Schools Committees from coast-to-coast, be sure to check out this video from this summer’s Green Schools Committee Symposium.
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Campaign Spotlight: Home Grown Initiatives Make Green Building a Win–Win
USGBC’s 79 volunteer-based chapters are consistently finding new and exciting ways to elevate green building practices and programs. Today, I’ll spotlight two chapters, whose creative and proactive advocacy initiatives advance the green building conve…
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Who Cares About Better Buildings? A Diverse Group of Companies Answer, “We Do!”
As a movement, we knew we had come a long way when President Obama announced the Better Buildings Initiative in February, establishing the goal of slashing energy consumption in commercial buildings 20 percent by 2020. Groups like USGBC, the Natural Re…
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Register Now! 2012 Green Schools National Conference
Register now for the second annual Green Schools National Conference (GSNC), taking place from Feb 27-29, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.
Be sure to register for the 2012 GSNC online by Nov. 18 to get the early bird discount rate. And, as a benefit of being …
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Students Across the Country Compete to Reduce Campus Energy
In the first two months of the academic year, USGBC Students is off to a roaring start! The national network of volunteer national and regional chairs has tripled the size of the program, and students are putting together inspiring events and activitie…
HOK & USGBC Working Together to Build LEED Children’s Center in Haiti
USGBC’s close collaborators in Project Haiti, global architectural firm HOK, have published a series of blog entries on their efforts to design the first LEED Platinum orphanage and children’s center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their pro-bono design effo…
Don’t Miss the Center for Green Schools at Greenbuild!
Stop by the Center for Green Schools display at Greenbuild and you just might learn something!
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Green Jobs Summit at Greenbuild 2011 Calls for Mobilization around this Common Sense Economic Solution
The hustle and bustle of Greenbuild 2011 is now behind us, and we’ve all returned to our respective homes and jobs to continue “troublemaking.”
And one area where we need to continue to stir the pot is green jobs. On the Tuesday of Greenbuild, we con…