Prolonged applause, two standing ovations, a full crowd erupting in inspired conversation. The closing keynote of the Green Jobs Summit provoked meaningful conversations on the role of green jobs for both...
Over lunch, the U.S. Green Building Council honored with our 2012 President’s Award, one of the most remarkable men you’d ever want to meet, Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld, award-winning physicist and former Commissioner of the California.
These days, Art – who is in his mid-...
Of all those speakers during the opening plenary session, I’m not sure I can pick out one who was clearly more compelling than the others. They all brought some amazing insights to the table.
What’s more, I’m writing this as the session is playing out in real time, so someone may still...
It’s Greenbuild 2012 and the Moscone Center in San Francisco is teeming with people who clearly got the memo about sustainability. And even though thousands here have seen the light and understand what we’re doing is essential to the long-term health of...
The following session is part of USGBC’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, an annual gathering of ~35,000 professionals, students and stakeholders in the green building movement. This year’s conference will take place Nov. 14-16 in San...
I’ve been both attending Greenbuild and distributing San Francisco visitor info for over ten years, so this blog post feels like it’s been a decade in the making. As both a long-time resident and a member of the USGBC Northern California Chapter’s...
Join us at the Greenbuild Film Festival to view “Silent Snow.”
Last month marked 50 years since marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson released “Silent Spring” an unsettling insight in to how our...
From the warmth and comfort of my brownstone apartment, about 30 feet above the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, it has been shockingly easy to forget the calamity that Hurricane Sandy has brought...
Join our postcard campaign to tell legislators about the important economic and environmental benefits of green building.
Greenbuild is a time to learn and reflect, to reunite and reenergize, and…to drop a postcard in the mail....
San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center has been a hallmark of San Francisco's tourist infrastructure since the first of its three buildings opened in 1981, but a recent renovation and...
The following session is part of USGBC’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, an annual gathering of ~35,000 professionals, students and stakeholders in the green building movement. This year’s conference will take place Nov. 14-16 in San...
Join us at the Greenbuild Film Festival to view “The Greenest Building.”
While not always recognized as a consumer product, buildings are in fact one of our most significant manufactured goods. And, like...
