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Greenbuild Events: AIA Releases New Sustainable Project Agreements

October 19, 2011 by Douglas Reiser
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As you all could probably guess, I was unable to attend Greenbuild this year. The arrival of my son has kept me at home – and I’m not complaining. But Greenbuild appears to have stepped up to new heights and I am sorry that I missed the festivities. One intriguing new release announced at the event: AIA’s new “Sustainable Project”... [read more]

Greenbuild 2011: Presentation Slides + Wrapup

October 12, 2011 by Green Buildings Alive
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For the 24,000 people who attended the US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild 2011 conference and expo in Toronto last week, there was a simple question: what's NEXT for green building? [read more]

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Greenbuild 2011: Building Metrics Take Center Stage

October 7, 2011 by Chris Cheatham
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One of themes of Greenbuild this year was data and metrics. This is not a surprise. As the green building industry continues to mature, owners are demanding better performance. The theme of data and metrics appeared in many forms throughout the Greenbuild sessions. [read more]

Neri Oxman’s Materials Revolution

October 7, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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At the 2011 GreenBuild, Neri Oxman, director of Mediated Matter at MIT Media Lab and one of the few who made Fast Company’s top 100 creative people list, wants to “introduce a new dimension or sensibility” into materials production. Proposing to turn the design and engineering worlds on their heads, she said we should no longer... [read more]

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Greenbuild 2011: Finally, a Private Funding Solution for Green Buildings

October 6, 2011 by Chris Cheatham
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With the down economy, it's been a rough year for green buildings and renewable energy projects. But as I got off the plane for this year's Greenbuild in Toronto, I saw an advertisement that inspired me with one word: potential. [read more]

Greenbuild Was All About Innovation

November 22, 2010 by Chris Cheatham
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As famous Chicagoan Harey Caray would say, Holy Cow!  That Greenbuild was the most productive, most informative, and most exciting on record, at least for me.  Keep in mind, I have only attended two Greenbuild conferences.  If you want a recap of key Greenbuild events as I saw it them, then check here, here and here... [read more]

The Launching of IGCC (and 4 other highlights from GreenBuild 2010)

November 22, 2010 by Shari Shapiro
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Last week I attended GreenBuild in Chicago, and spoke on a panel with my fellow green law bloggers about the future of green building law and policy.  We are planning a joint follow-up post on our predictions with Lloyd Alter at Treehugger which will come out in the next few days.  But there were many other highlights of... [read more]

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Greenbuild grows up

November 19, 2010 by Chris Cheatham
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If you have ever been to Greenbuild, you probably understand that the Exhibit Hall is completely and totally overwhelming.  Row after row of "green" companies pay good money to the US Green Building Council to hawk their wares and services. But the Exhibit Hall was different this year.  As I walked the aisles with a friend, he... [read more]

A New Way to Plant Urban Trees

November 18, 2010 by The Dirt ASLA
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At the 2010 GreenBuild, Peter MacDonagh, the Kestler Design Group, James Urban, FASLA, Urban Trees + Soils, and Peter Schaudt, FASLA, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, argued that without new tree planting techniques that use healthy loam soils, major “one million” urban tree planting campaigns will fail, wasting lots of money in... [read more]

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What happened to LEED?

November 18, 2010 by Chris Cheatham
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Going into Greenbuild, one of the biggest questions I had was how the US Green Building Council would handle the turmoil in the industry.  And there certainly is turmoil.   I had heard rumors for some time that LEED registrations were down this year, but I had no idea the gravity of the situation.  Yesterday,... [read more]

Applying the Sustainable Sites Initiative

November 17, 2010 by The Dirt ASLA
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At GreenBuild 2010, David Yocca, FASLA, Principal of Conservation Design Forum, explained how the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is moving to the next step in its path towards becoming a functioning rating system: “receiving feedback from real projects.” SITES, as Yocca explained, is an “interdisciplinary effort to... [read more]

Premier of Our New Film

January 30, 2009 by Mark Lazen
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At Social Media Today, we've been focused on the issues surrounding urban sustainability for a long time. It was that interest that drove us to create The Energy Collective more than a year ago.Among the many things we've learned from being part of the electric dialogue at The Energy Collective, two stand out. First, the technology and... [read more]