Links

LEED Related Links:

  1. GBCI - Green Building Certification Institute 800-795-1746 exam@gbci.org
  2. GBCI's LEED Green Associate page - Download LEED GA Candidate Handbook!
  3. Prometric Testing Centers 800-853-6764 (Schedule online) | (screen shots)
  4. USGBC - The U.S. Green Building Council 800-795-1747
  5. GBCI Policy Manual - Requirements pertaining to the LEED® Rating System
  6. Home Star & BPI -  (Everblue's BPI page.)
  7. USGBC-SF - USGBC South Florida Chapter (Join and become part of the change)
  8. USGBC - Florida Gulf Coast Chapter
  9. DSIRE - Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency - Tax Incentives for going green.
  10. Real Life LEED - An informative and amusing blog
  11. LEED Minimum Program Requirements
  12. Two-Tier Flowchart - The new LEED credentialing path (Audio-Slideshow)
  13. Photographic Examples of Green building systems and other great ideas.
  14. LEED Platinum Home in South Miami
  15. CSI MasterFormat Divisions, expanded.
  16. LEED v3 Process Videos

Required Reading, Watching, Listening:

  1. Radio: The Everblue Story - "A New Mission" on NPR's The Story
  2. Operation Free - Vets in favor of weaning us from our oil addiction. (Vote Vets)
  3. Film: "Tapped" documentary about the scam of bottled water. (Trailer)
  4. Video: "The Story of Bottled Water"  (Everblue's take on the situation)
  5. TV: Green Energy TV (Internet TV)
  6. Book: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - Steward Brand (TED video)
  7. Article: Natural Capitalism - 1997 article by environmental guru Paul Hawken
  8. Getting Personal - Six Personal Sustainability Myth-busters. (Caveat: Organic vegetables are best if purchased locally because they're fresher, they're less carbon intensive, and you're helping your local economy.)
  9. Article: GreenBiz 20 - The 20 Most Popular Stories of 2009
  10. Article: Will Big Business Save the Earth?
  11. TV: e2 design - the economics of environmental consciousness (from PBS and Autodesk)
  12. Article: From the White House to the Green House - White House pursues LEED Certification.
  13. Film: An Inconvenient Truth - Won Academy Award Best Documentary of 2007 (creators won Nobel Peace Prizes) At least watch the 2 min.trailer!
  14. Film: The 11th Hour (trailer) - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
  15. Film: The Greening of Southie - Documentary about about Boston's first residential green building (trailer)
  16. Audio/Article: Plumbing a Greener shade of LEED (Internet radio interview with a LEED AP and company owner enduring the realities of LEED Certification.)
  17. Audio/Article: Van Jones' Green Vision (14 min. interview)
  18. Book: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
  19. Book: Browse "The Green Collar Economy" here
  20. Book: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Tom Friedman
  21. Radio: Food As A National Security Issue - 40 min. NPR interview with Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food". (Watch MP speak! - several YouTube links.)
  22. Article: How many food-miles are behind your piece of fish? American fish make a stop in China before arriving at the store.
  23. Article: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - Factory farming responsible for resource depletion and GHGs.
  24. Article: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green WIRED Magazine article that may change your perception of what it means to be "green." (Also see "Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand.)
  25. Article: Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths An excellent retort to the WIRED article.
  26. Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
  27. Film: No Impact Man (trailer) Article/Interview with Colin Beavan and Michele Conlin of BusinessWeek (WNYC Radio Interview)
  28. Article: NYT My free and easy life
  29. Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
  30. Article: When Our Brains Short-Circuit - A matter of fatal flaws
  31. Article: Boiling the Frog - Time to wake up - We're in hot water!
  32. Article: Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat- Staggering statistics and an entertaining video!
  33. Article: Energy Conservation Pyramid from Florida Solar Energy Center
  34. Website: BIPV- Building Integrated Photovoltaics in South Florida!
  35. Article: One Bryant Square (BoA Building) is unveiled - The First LEED Platinum Skyscraper, in Manhattan!
  36. Audio: Bob Woodruff & Tom Friedman on Americans' perception of climate change.
  37. 60 Minutes: The Wasteland - eWaste flowing from rich countries to poor countries.
  38. 60 Minutes: Coal Ash: 130M Tons of Waste - Where does most fly-ash end up?
  39. 60 Minues:  Deepwater Horizon Survivor, Mike Williams.
  40. 60 Minutes: The Bloom Box - Cutting-edge fuel cell technology.
  41. The North Pacific Gyre - on PRI's The World
  42. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  43. There's no "AWAY" for our plastic trash! - Capt. Charles Moore: The Ocean is Downhill from everywhere.
  44. Good Morning America: TV news report (for a possible solution, see EcoAdepts)
  45. Bag The Bag: Ed Norton's 60 sec. look at the problem and  solution

Additional Links:

  1. Article: How a CPA turned LEED AP is greening one of the Big Four Accounting Firms - Leisha John, Americas Director of Environmental Sustainability at Ernst & Young
  2. Elizabeth Heider of Skanska USA offers a pragmatic view about the company's decision to pursue LEED CI Platinum for their office fit-out in the Empire State Building.
  3. Legal: The Legal Risk in "Building Green": New Wine In Old Bottles? (PDF)
  4. Legal: Don't talk too soon! - Potential legal implications of prematurely over-promising: "We're LEED Certified!"
  5. Article: Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
  6. Blog Post: I am Human, I'm American, and I'm Addicted to Oil...
  7. Article: How Termites Inspired Mick Pearce's Green Buildings
  8. EcoAdepts creates Green Doggie Bags and Green Trash Bags
  9. Project Green Resource - Green Resources for South Florida 
  10. Environmental Working Group - The EWG team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know.
  11. Mother Nature Network
  12. Learn about MSC Seafood - eat sustanable seafood.
  13. Green Printing: AC Graphics, Florida's's first triple-certified green printer! (print on FSC  paper & veg.-based inks.)
  14. British Gas Windfarm
  15. Low VOC advice for your home from Howdini.
  16. Straight Green: Alternative VOC Calculation for LEED
  17. The most interesting Wind Turbine designs
  18. How to build a Wind Farm - Amazing photos
  19. Make your own Rain Barrel
  20. Least Wasteful Cities - How wasteful are you? TAKE THE TEST!
  21. Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle - Is Fiji Water greenwashing America?
  22. FIJI Water Responds to Mother Jones Article
  23. CoC - Chain of Custody
  24. SRI ratings of various shades of concrete
  25. FSC vs. SFI - What's the diff? (More differences)
  26. Bermuda requires rain water harvesting
  27. Xeriscaped! - Turf is replaced with native/adapted vegetation. (Turf requires water, chemicals, and mowing.)
  28. Going Dry Movement - California encourages "zero scaping" - 
  29. CD packaging revolution - Sustainable CD Packaging
  30. Dow Unveils Solar Shingles
  31. Roof Tiles Would Save Energy By Turning Color
  32. How to answer the claims of a Climate Change Sceptic
  33. Environmental Groups Spar Over Certifications of Wood and Paper Products
  34. NPR's Educational Carbon Cartoon
  35. Cap & Trade Explained
  36. Green domain dost Host Gator offsets 130% of power thru local wind-power RECs (more info.)
  37. Green Domain Registrar offsets 100% of power thru low-impact hydro-electric RECs
  38. Land Rover offsets 100% of its manufacturing emissions thru CDMs.
  39. EU Carbon Retirement (carbon calculator)
  40. BBC - How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
  41. Video: The Budapest Multiparker 730 (underground urban parking)

Fun:

  1. Polluter Harmony (So true, it's really not that funny.)
  2. The Love Toilet - Worth an Innovation in Design pt. under WE-c2?
  3. Top Ten Green iPhone Apps
  4. 100+ Green iPhone Apps
 

 

 
 
 
2 Comments

Green Building

  • Submitted by Reid Adele (not verified) on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:05.
    Green building seem quite expensive, is anyone able to afford green building.

Green Building

  • Submitted by ChrisB on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 19:00.
    Reid, Green Building isn't necessarily any more expensive than traditional building when you factor in all of the costs versus the savings. For instance, if you pay more to install a high efficiency heating and air conditioning system that saves you operating costs is that an added cost? Even investing in less tangible green building techniques and technologies such as air quality and green roofs can have payoffs in worker productivity, employee retention, and employee satisfaction. Last, we spend lots of money everyday on things like granite and Italian marble with no consideration for payback. What is the payback for a clean atmosphere and healthy planet to leave to our children? Best, Everblue

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