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Seattle and Portland
Wednesday, December 9 at 5:00pm
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
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Cities up and down the West Coast are beginning to adopt various green building certification requirements and incentives. In late November, the city of Bainbridge Island, Wash., became the first in the ...
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Global warming...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/ts_
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More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.
Jaime Medina Mendez
Let's
save the planet, sustainable building. We will help you any where in
the globe many times for free or at cost, our main interest is Earth
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88
Ecologic Construction is a green general construction company dedicated to become a leader in providing value added construction services to our customers by creating a successful partnership with the...
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Emerging Greener from the Recession - Seattle Branch Signal Issues Workshop
Thursday, Nov 12 at Wyckoff Auditorium, Seattle U
http://www.cascadiagbc.org/events/2009/n
Seattle Branch Signal Issue Workshop Series- Emerging Green — Cascadia Region Green Building Council
www.cascadiagbc.org
This workshop is “Emerging Greener from the Recession - A panel discussion on codes, incentives, and opportunity for greener buildings and communities as we emerge from the Recession”, including Toxic signal issue brief, and Food & Drink!
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Cascadia's CEO, Jason F. McLennan is on the list of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential People of 2009!!!
http://www.seattlemag.com/0p135a1764/pow
http://www.seattlemag.com/0p212a1792/sea
www.seattlemag.com
[ CEO, Cascadia Region Green Building Council ]McLennan’s mission is idealistic yet simple: to change the way the world builds. Specifically, he wants all buildings to be zero-energy and so has issued a worldwide challenge to create such a building. ...
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
See Cascadia at Greenbuild. The Living Buidling Challenge booth is 1166 in the Expo Hall! Cascadia staff will also be participating in 3 educational sessions.
Wed, 4-5:30pm, Urban Food Systems; Thur, 8:30-10am, Challenging the Un-system; Friday, 8:30-10am, Designing with Nature
http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx
www.greenbuildexpo.org
daily.sightline.org
Stormwater -- the rainwater that streams off roofs, parking lots, roads, and yards, carrying with it toxic pollutants -- poses a costly, intractable problem for governments and businesses. In Washington, efforts to control stormwater have cost its cities hundreds of millions of dollars.
www.greenerbuildings.com
The Green Building Market and Impact Report, released this morning by GreenerBuildings.com, measures the beneficial impacts that LEED-certified buildings have on energy, water, worker productivity and more, and charts the growth of the green marketplace
Cascadia Region Green Building Council Peter C will be in PDX on Dec 9th and SEA on the 10th! Peter Clegg’s decades of experience and experimentation in environmentally responsive design has produced incredible results. Perhaps most inspiring is Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ reputation as a practice genuinely committed to sustainability. FCB Studios’ work... has been recognized with numerous awards including in 2008 the prestigious RI BA Stirling Prize. Peter will share FC B Studios’ philosophy of architectureas both a social art that can transform people and an imperative response to global warming.
Time:5:00PM Wednesday, December 9th
Location:Seattle and Portland
Cascadia Region Green Building Council Job fair at Greenbuild.
www.greenerbuildings.com
Job hunters seeking to break into the green building field or looking for new opportunities will have a chance network with destination companies and organizations at the upcoming Greenbuild 2009 conference in Phoenix
Cinda
We
asked ourselves What If... we could create a village of sustainable
living, where people of all walks of life lived together with the
common desire to give back to the planet. We now ask you. What If....
What does this village look like to you?
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Cascadia Region Green Building Council Haven't checked this rating system out yet...anyone?
www.seattlepi.com
A Seattle couple spent more than two years designing and developing Eco-rate, a Web-based product and technology rating and comparison resource for shoppers looking to make ecologically intelligent choices ...
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Who wants a green halloween? I do! And don't forget those reusable bags for trick-or-treats!
http://greenhalloween.org/
greenhalloween.org
Green Halloween is a not-for-profit, grassroots, community initiative to create healthier and more Earth-friendly holidays, starting with Halloween. What’s our definition of “green”? Good for people, good for planet, good for communities. Click here for more information.
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
350.org photos, way to go Portland, Seattle, Vancouver for representing!
http://www.350.org/#
www.350.org
350.org is an global grassroots campaign to stop the climate crisis, building from an International Day of Climate Action on October 24 to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December of 2009.
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Tracking Trash - MIT project in NYC & Seattle.
http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/inde
senseable.mit.edu
“Nobody wonders where, each day, they carry their load of refuse. Outside the city, surely; but each year the city expands, and the street cleaners have to fall farther back. The bulk of the outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified, extend over a wider perimeter”
