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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. USGBC-SF - USGBC South Florida Chapter (Join and become part of the change)
  7. USGBC - Florida Gulf Coast Chapter
  8. DSIRE - Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency - Tax Incentives for going green.
  9. Real Life LEED - An informative and amusing blog
  10. Two-Tier Flowchart - The new LEED credentialing path (Audio-Slideshow)
  11. Photographic Examples of Green building systems and other great ideas.
  12. CSI MasterFormat Divisions, expanded.

Required Reading, Watching, Listening:

  1. Radio: The Everblue Story - "A New Mission" on NPR's The Story
  2. Book: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - Steward Brand (TED video)
  3. Article: GreenBiz 20 - The 20 Most Popular Stories of 2009
  4. Article: Will Big Business Save the Earth?
  5. TV: e2 design - the economics of environmental consciousness (30 min. PBS program by Autodesk.)
  6. Article: From the White House to the Green House - White House pursues LEED Certification.
  7. Film: An Inconvenient Truth - Won Academy Award Best Documentary of 2007 (creators won Nobel Peace Prizes) At least watch the 2 min.trailer!
  8. Film: The 11th Hour (trailer) - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
  9. Film: The Greening of Southie - Documentary about about Boston's first residential green building (trailer)
  10. Audio/Article: Plumbing a Greener shade of LEED (Internet radio interview with a LEED AP and company owner enduring the realities of LEED Certification.)
  11. Audio/Article: Van Jones' Green Vision (14 min. interview)
  12. Book: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
  13. Book: Browse "The Green Collar Economy" here
  14. Book: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Tom Friedman
  15. 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.)
  16. Article: How many food-miles are behind your piece of fish? American fish make a stop in China before arriving at the store.
  17. Article: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be GreenWIRED Magazine article that may change your perception of what it means to be "green."
  18. Article: Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths An excellent retort to the WIRED article.
  19. Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
  20. Film: No Impact Man (trailer) Article/Interview with Colin Beavan and Michele Conlin of BusinessWeek (WNYC Radio Interview)
  21. Article: NYT My free and easy life
  22. Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
  23. Article: When Our Brains Short-Circuit - A matter of fatal flaws
  24. Article: Boiling the Frog - Time to wake up - We're in hot water!
  25. Article: Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat- Staggering statistics and an entertaining video!
  26. Website: BIPV- Building Integrated Photovoltaics in South Florida!
  27. Audio: Bob Woodruff & Tom Friedman on Americans' perception of climate change.
  28. 60 Minutes: Coal Ash: 130M Tons of Waste - Where does most fly-ash end up?
  29. 60 Minutes: The Bloom Box - Cutting-edge fuel cell technology.
  30. The North Pacific Gyre - on PRI's The World
  31. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  32. There's no "AWAY" for our plastic trash! - Capt. Charles Moore: The Ocean is Downhill from everywhere.
  33. WAKE UP and RETHINK: Watch this TV news report. 

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. Legal: The Legal Risk in "Building Green": New Wine In Old Bottles? (PDF)
  3. Legal: Don't talk too soon! - Potential legal implications of prematurely over-promising: "We're LEED Certified!"
  4. Article: Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
  5. Article: How Termites Inspired Mick Pearce's Green Buildings
  6. CD packaging revolution - Sustainable CD Packaging
  7. 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.
  8. Mother Nature Network
  9. Learn about MSC Seafood - eat sustanable seafood.
  10. British Gas Windfarm
  11. Low VOC advice for your home from Howdini.
  12. Straight Green: Alternative VOC Calculation for LEED
  13. The most interesting Wind Turbine designs
  14. How to build a Wind Farm - Amazing photos
  15. Least Wasteful Cities - How wasteful are you? TAKE THE TEST!
  16. Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle - Is Fiji Water greenwashing America?
  17. FIJI Water Responds to Mother Jones Article
  18. Top Ten Green iPhone Apps
  19. 100+ Green iPhone Apps
  20. CoC - Chain of Custody
  21. FSC vs. SFI - What's the diff? (More differences)
  22. Bermuda requires rain water harvesting
  23. Dow Unveils Solar Shingles
  24. Roof Tiles Would Save Energy By Turning Color
  25. How to answer the claims of a Climate Change Sceptic
  26. Environmental Groups Spar Over Certifications of Wood and Paper Products
  27. NPR's Educational Carbon Cartoon
  28. Cap & Trade Explained
  29. Green Domain Host offsets 130% of power thru local wind-power RECs (more info.)
  30. Green Domain Registrar offsets 100% of power thru low-impact hydro-electric RECs
  31. EU Carbon Retirement (carbon calculator)
  32. The Love Toilet - Worth one Innovation in Design pt. under WE-Credit 2
 

 

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