Join us in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Nov. 20-22 for USGBC's 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Register today! Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of building professionals from all over the world come together at Greenbuild for three days of outstanding education sessions, renowned speakers, a vast expo floor, green building tours, special seminars and networking events. We are Greenbuild Nation. P.S. I’d love...

Market transformation.  We use that term a lot around USGBC but I don’t think I completely grasped its full power to change lives and change the world until yesterday, when we made our announcement about the new partnership with Hanley Wood and Greenbuild. We’ve been talking a lot about the fact that it’s our 20th anniversary. 20 years to get to here, and, man oh man, here is a place I’d never, ever thought we’d see. But what if “here” was not just...

As someone who used to watch a gutsy but undersized point guard named Kevin Johnson almost single-handedly take over an NBA basketball game with his take-charge style of play, it came as no surprise when for a few brief moments he completely took over the 2012 Leadership Luncheon. As now mayor of Sacramento and the recipient of this year’s Richard M. Daley Global Leadership Award, he seems bound and determined to make his city to green technology what L.A. is to movies. He’s even got a name...

Washington, D.C. (May 29, 2013) – Today, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give the opening keynote address at its 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. This year’s conference will take place November 20-22 in Philadelphia at the LEED Gold-certified Pennsylvania Convention Center. Registration opens June 5, 2013. Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 until...

Attendees returned home from their Greenbuild 2012 adventure in San Francisco with fresh ideas, valuable education, new connections, and a few momentos. But today, we’re focusing on what attendees didn’t take with them — things like coffee cups, name badges, CDs and other typical conference swag. Since 2002, USGBC's Greenbuild International Conference & Expo has been reinventing the conference and events market, helping it shed its wasteful legacy and strive for...

Last week, the chairs of our Greenbuild education committee and working groups hosted a webinar explaining what makes for a strong Greenbuild education session proposal. Here are some of the best tips from Tulane School of Architecture faculty member Tatiana Eck, Wight & Co. Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer Lois Vitt Sale and Inspirit LLC Principal Annette Stelmack: 10. Submit fresh content. Reviewers are not looking for reprisals of material presented previously at...

One of my favorite events each year at Greenbuild is our annual leadership luncheon at which we give out a handful of awards and take a moment to honor those who have distinguished themselves and/or their firms or organizations by advancing the cause of sustainability and the green building movement. I won’t single out any specific honoree here, but urge you to read for yourself a little about each winner and see this year’s list of LEED Fellows. Instead, I just wanted to take a quick moment...

Over the last decade we’ve watched Greenbuild grow into the industry's can't miss event, and this year we’re confident this is going to be our biggest and best Greenbuild yet.  In 2013, we’re celebrating our theme, Greenbuild Nation, in the great city of Philadelphia from November 20-22. The green building movement is a global movement. The good we are working for is universal; our actions are local and regional; and our impact is worldwide. Today we unite behind a shared...

Watch USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi's Greenbuild 2012 keynote speech.

Governor Jerry Brown, Jane McGonigal and William McDonough deliver a galvanizing closing plenary to packed house in San Francisco Nov. 27, 2012 (Washington, DC) – The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) welcomed close to 25,000 to San Francisco, Calif. for its 11th annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, the world's largest conference dedicated to green building. At its closing plenary, industry thought leaders from the business and environmental communities joined social leaders...

If there was one overriding theme of this year’s Greenbuild, it is the power of green. And no, not that green. The other one. Green, as in the color of money. I know I had tried to make a concerted effort to drive home the financial benefits of the green building movement in my keynote address. And it’s a point that has not only moved front and center on my radar screen, but is drawing almost untold amounts of private equity dollars, economists, investors and average American citizens to...