Category: USGBC News
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Building Green in Dixie: Progress in the Southeast (Part One)
Jeremy Sigmon, LEED® AP BD+C Director, Technical Policy U.S. Green Building Council Take a seat. Lose your stereotypes. Grab a few hush puppies and a glass of sweet tea. Here’s a few highlights you may have otherwise missed about how energy effic…
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My Vampire Pad in Frankfurt and the Youngest LEED AP in Germany
Jennivine Kwan Vice President, International Operations U.S. Green Building Council My time in Frankfurt had a rather interesting start. For those of you who haven’t been there, at first glance, Frankfurt is a very conservative, very straight-lace…
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The Center for Green Schools and Princeton Review Release Free Guide to 322 Green Colleges
By Kristin Simmons Ferguson Higher Ed Associate For the third year in a row, we at the Center for Green Schools are pleased to celebrate today’s release of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green College: 2012 Edition. This year’s gui…
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The Top Three Reasons Rio+20 Will Change the World
Maggie Comstock Associate, Policy U.S. Green Building Council Note: This blog was originally posted on unep.org Please vote for Maggie to be the official blogger for World Environment Day in Rio! Click “Vote Now” below her picture or at the end…
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Fine Gardening Lessons for All of Us
Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO & Founding Chairman U.S. Green Building Council One of the things that may surprise people about me is that the first place I head when I arrive home to upstate New York on the weekend is to my garden. After a long …