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Ted Bardacke, AICP, LEED AP, LEED Faculty, LEED Homes Green Rater
Ted Bardacke is Senior Associate in the Green Urbanism Program at Global
Green USA and Adjunct Professor in Urban Environmental Design and Planning at
UCLA. He is also Visiting Fellow at Mexico City’s Centro de Transporte
Sustentable, an affiliate of the World Resources Institute.
At Global Green, Ted works with affordable housing developers, public
agencies, school districts, and design and construction industry
professionals to advance the sustainability of the urban environment. He has
been involved in the drafting and implementation of numerous green building
reference tools and standards, including Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems for Neighborhood Development and
Homes, the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and the
Enterprise Community Partners’ Green Communities Initiative for affordable
housing.
Experienced in facilitation, consensus building and program design, Ted has
recently focused his efforts on uniting green building professionals with
smart growth activists and designers of walkable, transit-oriented
communities. He was founding chair of the United States Green Building
Council’s Location and Planning Technical Advisory Group, which writes LEED
standards in the areas of neighborhood revitalization, brownfield clean-up,
alternative transportation strategies, walkable street design, and local food
production, among other areas. Ted served for four years on the LEED for
Neighborhood Development Core Committee and in 2005, on behalf of Global
Green, he accepted the USGBC’s Leadership Award for Advocacy.
From 2004 to 2010, Ted worked with two non-profit affordable housing
developers to develop Zero Energy Affordable Housing under a contract from
the California Energy Commission – the first 56 units, called Solara,
opened in 2007 and the next 42 units, called Los Vecinos, opened in 2009. Ted
has also provided sustainable design assistance and program implementation
support to the $19 billion construction program of the Los Angeles Unified
School District and actively participated in planning post-Katrina rebuilding
efforts in the Gulf Coast, including the development of sustainability and
green building criteria for New Orleans’ Recovery School District, funded
by the Bush Clinton Katrina Foundation. As a LEED for Homes Green Rater, he
has assisted project teams in the certification of over 300 units of LEED
certified affordable housing, including Habitat for Humanity’s 2007 Jimmy
Carter Work Project and the USGBC’s 2009 Multifamily Project of the Year.
During most of the 1990s, Ted was a foreign correspondent, based first in
Mexico City and then in Bangkok, for the Financial Times of London, and in
the late 1980s coordinated volunteer construction projects in rural Mexico
for the American Friends Service Committee.