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Closing date announced for LEED AP exam registration, and the disciplinary policy!

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:42:00 GMT

Since the Green Building Certification Institute announced big changes to the LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) program (chronicled here), a few other key items have come out. First, the final date to register for the LEED AP exam in its cu... [More]

Videos from Greenbuild '08 at Greenbuild 365

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:40:00 GMT

From the Father of Green Chemistry to that guy from This Old House, a couple dozen videos of speakers and presentations from Greenbuild '08 have been posted at Greenbuild 365, "USGBC's interactive green building learning portal." Among t...

Coal in Your Stocking

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:43:00 GMT

"Smudge" — more here

Happy holidays!

BuildingGreen Bulletin: Products for LEED Water Credits — GreenSpec News Updates

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:20:00 GMT

Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time. Read the curren...

Touring the Greenbuild Expo with CNN

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:21:00 GMT

I'm not usually all that comfortable in front of a camera, but I had fun walking the Greenbuild 2008 Expo floor with a video crew from CNNMoney.com and Fortune magazine. We focused on four or five technologies in our tour, only two of which made ...

Meters Spinning Backwards!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:09:00 GMT

You find the darndest things on YouTube sometimes. Southwest Windpower, the maker of the Skystream 3.7 small-scale wind turbine, brought this video (and others like it) to my attention.

Exploding Low-Flow Toilets

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:00 GMT

In 1997, humorist Dave Barry wrote a newspaper piece titled "The Toilet Police," about those newly mandated 1.6-gallon low-flow toilets that honestly and truly deserved to be dumped on. The column is still floating around the internet, ...

"Zero Energy" Exit Signs

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:24:00 GMT

A post went up on Treehugger a couple days ago about "an eco alternative to plug-in exit signs" — photoluminescents. I posted the following reply there, and thought I'd just as well share it here, too. Environmental Building News (... [More]

A Rare Glimpse Inside

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:04:00 GMT

This is the really slick two-minute video that was projected onto the giant auditorium screens just before our own Alex Wilson was given a USGBC Leadership Award during Greenbuild. Get a sense of our offices in the historic Estey Organ Factory......

Going Green on Black Friday

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:19:00 GMT

I found myself near Washington, D.C., on the day after Thanksgiving. Rather than try to prop up the economy at retail outlets or lounge in a hotel room all day, I headed to the National Building Museum to see its "Green Community" exhibit with my m...

BuildingGreen Bulletin: Changing Behavior — December EBN

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:22:00 GMT

Other's efforts to bring clarity to product certifications

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:42:00 GMT

I promised participants at my GreenBuild session (Nutrition Labels for Products: Taking control of deciding what is green for you) a list of the efforts to bring clarity - through summaries, comparison tables, databases, whatnot - to the plethora o... [More]

Homebuilder's Day speaker: Homebuilding "Not so much a system as a bad habit"

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Greenbuild 2008 included the first ever Green Homebuilder's Day, a conference within the much larger overall conference. Homebuilder's Day welcomed old hands and newcomers to the field of green building, and the sessions were full. BuildingGreen orga... [More]

A Pedicab at Greenbuild

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:39:00 GMT

(A Project Frog zero-energy classroom is in the background.)

"Listed on GreenFormat" - What Does That Actually Mean?

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT

There were quite a few of these placards in booths on the expo hall floor at Greenbuild. They were nice-looking signs, and seemed to give some green cred. But... no. As it says on GreenFormat's website, " GreenFormat is open to any manufacturer ...