Earlier this month NPR ran successive stories about the incredible growth in green building. Since the founding of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, certified green building started of slowly in terms of the number of projects that were reviewed under the standards known as LEED (Leadership in Environmental Design). Tuesday’s story, [...]
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Element Hotels from Starwood to Require LEED Certification
September 12th, 2010 
Eric Wilson If “green building” practices are to become more wide spread, the advent of large companies with chain outlets fabricating all of their structures to meet these standards is a major step in the right direction. Much like the Marriott hotel chain, Westin’s Element is following a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) plan aimed at [...]
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Tags: Denver, Electric Vehicles, LEED, USGBC, Water Conservation 
No Comments »USGBC Portfolio Program: Mass Producing Green Buildings
September 7th, 2010 Eric Wilson Making certified green building more accessible on a large scale has arrived. In order to encourage and speed the process of green building, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched their Portfolio Program. The program “enables companies and building owners to integrate LEED into their new and existing building projects using a cost-effective, [...]
LEED Building Standards for Healthcare Currently Under Development
July 17th, 2010 Eric Wilson The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) develops Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for a wide range of building types and projects. Because many of the sites and structures are unique, they require special considerations resulting in standards that reflect their circumstances. Like all new LEED standards, including the neighborhood development standards [...]
Greener Than Thou: Holy Wisdom Monastery Achieves Highest LEED Score Ever
June 23rd, 2010 Eric Wilson My dad, an avid reader of AARP, came across this story about the LEED-NC (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – New Construction) certified building at Holy Wisdom Monestary in Middleton, Wisconsin. The LEED rating system is based on points earned for completing/qualifying various levels of green building. Currently, there are 69 possible points that [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Recylcing, Renewable Energy Tags: Geothermal, LEED, New York City, USGBC No Comments »Be a “LEEDER” in Real Estate: An Introduction to the LEED Rating System and the “GREENING” of Real Estate Documents
May 30th, 2010 Guest Author This post is a collaborative effort by Jennifer Mullen,* Andrae J. Via,** Mary Katherine McGetrick,*** and Michael Nicholson**** Stimulus money, increased awareness of work and living environments, and new building practices have quickly moved green building to the forefront of the real estate market. A variety of methods exists for increasing energy efficiency, improving air [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Green Economy, Guest Authors, Sustainability Tags: LEED, USGBC No Comments »USGBC Launches GreenHomeGuide.com
March 9th, 2010 Eric Wilson Here is a quick announcement regarding the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). In an email to members earlier today, the USGBC introduced a new Web site called GreenHomeGuide.com. Designed to help companies in home construction and remodeling, the site is also available to the public. The new site contains A searchable services directory helps [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Green Economy Tags: Green Product, USGBC No Comments »Five Friday Facts
February 5th, 2010 Justin Manger In his holiday letter to members, Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) mentioned some statistics that speak to the boom in green building: 27,373 people joined Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix 14 million people are employed by a USGBC member company Of the 4,328 LEED-certified projects in existence, [...]
