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May 2005 Newsletter
Table of
Contents:
News
Events: In
Oregon In Washington In
British Columbia
New:
Succeed at LEED Workshops, Seattle and Portland
June
6, LEED for Existing Buildings Workshop
Resources
Green
Building in the News
Help
Wanted
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WA Governor Signs
High Performance Green Building Legislation into Law
at the
Washington Middle School, Olympia, one of 5 statewide schools to receive
funding under the Washington Sustainable Schools Pilot Project last year.Read
the Bill , Read
WA Legislation Sponsor and Champion Rep. Dunshee Report
Portland City
Council Adopts LEED Gold for All New City Facilities
And
LEED-EB Silver for all City-owned occupied, existing buildings, More
info , Read
the Resolution
King County adopts environmental building
practices for its public buildings. More
info
Mayors Nickels
and Potter Lead US Mayors "Kyoto Challenge"
Read
their Call to Action , More
info
Good Friends
Cascadia
would like to thank DLR
Group and Group
Mackenzie for joining 100 Friends of Cascadia at the
Certified-level. Thanks to all our generous sponsors! See
our Sponsors , The
Benefits of Joining 100 Friends of Cascadia
OR Sustainability Board will be "sunsetted" in 2006 unless Legislature keeps it alive. Support SB191. More info, Contact Governor Kulongoski, Patti Smith (committee where SB191 sits), and Peter Courtney
Vancouver City
Council unanimous approval for Green House Gas study
Read
Council Report and Mayor's
Press Release
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Congratulations to Matt Gregg, McKinstry, on being elected the new Co-Chair of the Seattle Branch Steering Committee, with Colleen Hazelrigs, and thanks to Susan Fore for all her hard work in the role for past 2 years.
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Portland Branch
Announces New Steering Committee
From left, Gina Franzosa,
Chris Forney (co-chair), Jennifer Nye, Mike McGlynn, Sarah Bernhard, Mike
Manzi, Mark Heizer, Tim Richard (co-chair), and Eric Baxter, with Cascadia
CEO Glen Gilbert.
National AIA awards Mithun special recognition for Lloyd Crossing, More info
EVENTS
Oregon
Last chance: Envisioning Fully
Sustainable Buildings - Using The Natural Step & LEED, May 4, 8
AM - Noon, Ecotrust, Portland. Register by Apr. 20. This popular Greenbuild
workshop is reprised, featuring Duke Castle, Oregon Natural Step Network;
John Echlin, SERA Architects; Scott Lewis, Brightworks Northwest; Charlie
Stephens, Oregon Department of Energy; and Dennis Wilde, Gerding/Edlen. More
info , Register
New: Succeed at
LEED workshops, June 22, Portland, 8 AM - 5 PM
Everything you
need to know about successful management of the LEED process, from first
client meeting to certification. For the first time, Brightworks' Scott
Lewis and Liz Weber share what they have learned on 23 LEED projects. More
info , Register
Portland (See Seattle workshop below)
Portland LEED Users Group, May 12, 7:30 - 9:00 AM, at Interface Engineering, 708 SW Third Ave, Ste. 400, Portland@cascadiagbc.org, Topic: Life Cycle Costs Assessment, LCA of Green Roofs with Ed Wales and Allen Lee, Ph.D
Washington
LEED-EB Technical Review workshop, Seattle, June 6, 8 AM - 5 PM. More
info , Register
. Problems registering: workshops@usgbc.org
New: Succeed at
LEED workshops, June 20, Seattle, 8 AM - 5 PM
Everything you
need to know about successful management of the LEED process, from first
client meeting to certification. For the first time, Brightworks' Scott
Lewis and Liz Weber share what they have learned on 23 LEED projects. More
info , Register
Seattle (See Portland workshop above)
Seattle LEED
Users Group, May 10, 7:30 - 9 AM, Lighting Design Lab, 400 E. Pine,
dcs@abacus-engr.com, Topic: Earning the Energy and IEQ Points in LEED-EB
Panel
presented in partnership with BetterBricks: Theresa Koppang, King County;
John Fairman, Wright Runstad, representing King St. Center (EB-Gold); Steve
Fry, DOE and Ash Awad, McKinstry, representing Department of Ecology HQ
(EB-Silver) and facilitator Kathleen Smith. More
info
Tacoma-Olympia Branch Members Meeting, May 11, 7:30 - 9:00 AM, Tacoma Public Utilities Auditorium, 3628 South 35th Street. Topic: Sustainable Site Design - A Low Impact Approach, with Len Zickler, AHBL. Continental Breakfast served. More info. RSVP required by May 6: tacoma@cascadiagbc.org
British
Columbia
Don't
Miss: The Insider's Workshop - Marketing Green Buildings
May
5, 8 AM to noon, UBC Robson Sq., Vancouver
Get ready for a fast-paced,
informative workshop with North America's leading green building marketing
expert Jerry Yudelson. Each workshop participant receives a copy of Jerry's
new book, The Insider's Guide to Marketing Green Buildings, a $150 CAD value.
More
info , Register
, Sponsored by: The City Program at Simon Fraser University, Urban
Development Institute, APEG, Business in Vancouver and GVRD.
Vancouver LEED Users Group, May 27 at 12:00 PM, at Terasen Gas Building, 1111 Georgia St., 1st Floor, Georgia Room, ebrault@veleng.com, Topic: Stormwater Management
Additional Events:
Inspiring Urban
Revitalization. May 2, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, UW Architecture Hall, Seattle
Tom
Bloxham, Co-Founder, Urban Splash, Manchester, UK. More
info on the City of Seattle's 2005 Urban Sustainability Forum
Civic Innovation
& Sustainable Communities, May 9, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, Seattle
Central Library Auditorium
William Shutkin, President & CEO, The Orton
Family Foundation
More
info on the City of Seattle's 2005 Urban Sustainability Forum
Walking
Our Talk: Creating the livable communities we want, May 11, 1:30 PM
and 7 PM, Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Avenue, Bellingham. More
info
Pomegranate Center Third Annual Gathering: Design and Social Vitality, May 19, Issaquah, WA More info
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Janine Benyus
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Janine Benyus,
author, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
May 20, 7:30
PM, Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle
Tickets at the door:
$12 ($7 students & seniors)
Workshops on
energy-efficient building methods and renovations for congregations
May
24 (Cedar Hills United, Portland), June 2 (First United Methodist ,
Corvallis), both 11:30 AM. - 4 PM
Registration $20 individual or $30
total for two to six members of the same congregation; includes lunch and
materials. More info
or call (503) 221-1054.
Energy Analysis for LEED,
May 25, 8:45 - 10:30 AM, TraneOregon in partnership with Cascadia Green
Building Council, 7257 SW Kable Lane, Portland, Registration deadline: May
18. More
info
Rainwater Harvesting: A two-date workshop series, May 31, 1111 West Georgia St., Vancouver; June 20, University of Victoria, More info , Registration or email outreach@waterbalance.ca.
The Wicked Problem of Sustainability, June 1, 1:30 - 5 PM, Urban Horticulture, NHS Hall, Seattle. More info
Annual
International Conference of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
(BALLE)
June 2 - 5 on the UBC Campus, Vancouver, BC. Register
Public Spaces,
Public Life, June 6, 5:30 - 7 PM, Seattle Central Library Auditorium
Jan
Gehl, Professor of Urban Design, School of Architecture, Royal Danish
Academy of Fine Arts, will present research on public spaces and public life
in Copenhagen and cities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. More
info on the City of Seattle's 2005 Urban Sustainability Forum
4th Annual
Seattle BEST Awards Ceremony Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Michael Braungart
June
9, 7:45 - 9:30 AM, Shilshole Bay Beach Club, Seattle, $30 includes
breakfast. Discover who won this year's Businesses for an Environmentally
Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Awards and hear Dr. Michael Braungart, co-author
of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. More
info. Contact: kadeenal@resourceventure.org
or (206) 389-7302.
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LEED "Flash
Cards" Available
Cascadia has developed LEED 2.1 "flash
cards" to help you prepare for the new exam. The resource includes over 280
questions and answers to help you memorize LEED 2.1 Green Building Rating
System that can be cut into "flash cards." Purchase
Flash Cards
City of Victoria's Triple Bottom Line RFP , Read the Evaluation Matrix
UC Berkeley Seeks
LEED-Rated Buildings for Survey
The Center for the Built
Environment wants to compare indoor environmental quality of LEED buildings
to non-rated buildings. More
info
Northwest Green
Directory Up and Running
Portland's Office of Sustainable
Development had unveiled a new online tool to connect supply and demand for
green building goods and services in the region. OSD encourages you to take
10 minutes to register your company, goods and services. It is free and
easy. More info
New National Sustainable Building Advisor Certification Exam launched for past Sustainable Building Advisor Course participants to earn the Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA) designation. More info
Apply for EPA
Smart Growth Implementation Assistance
EPA is soliciting
applications from communities that want help with policy analysis (e.g.,
reviewing state and local codes, school siting guidelines, transportation
policies) or public participatory processes (e.g., visioning, alternatives
analysis, build-out analysis). Selected communities will receive assistance
from a team of experts organized by EPA to work with local leaders. More
info
LEED Homes Checklist and Request for Feedback available. Send feedback to jhackler@usgbc.org
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The Insider's
Guide to Marketing Green Buildings by Jerry Yudelson
The
Insider's Guide is over 200 pages, it contains more than 50 charts, graphs,
project photos, figures and tables, charting the past growth and future
direction of the green building industry.
Read
review , Buy
the Book
More
info , Read
the Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Solar Electricity
Courses at BCIT, Vancouver, BC
Introduction to Photovoltaics,
Part I Tues & Thurs eves, May 10-26, 6:30 - 9:30 PM, $295
Introduction
to Photovoltaics, Part II Tues & Thurs eves, June 7-23, 6:30 - 9:30 PM, $295
More
info
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Rebuilt Green:
The Natural Capital Center and the Transformative Power of Building
120
pages, $15 "Rebuilt Green is the first book to explore the true meaning and
social dimensions of green building." --Paul Hawken. Buy
the Book
Three spaces left on the next Sweden-Denmark Urban Sustainability Study Tour, May 15 to May 21. More info and Itinerary
ECOtone announces Who's Green© 2006 - a resource book for locating firms, organizations and institutions that are actively participating in the growth of the green building industry. More info
Washington first state with green building standards, The Associated Press/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Apr. 8, 2005
Seattle
leads 'green' wave in building:
New
state law paves way for environmentally friendly construction, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, Apr. 22, 2005
LEED
is Broken, Let's Fix It,
Apr. 2005
Read
USGBC's Response by Rick Fredrizzi, CEO, USGBC
Response:
Is LEED Broken? by Scott Lewis, Founder, Brightworks Northwest
Timber
and Steel: In Ballard, a new branch Seattle Public Library is a showcase of
eco-efficient architecture, Seattle Weekly, Apr. 20-26, 2005
Solar Thermal Project Taps Summer Heat for Winter Use, More info, Apr. 1, 2005
In Portland, living the green American dream, Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 26, 2005
A clean, green session, Seattle Times, Apr. 27, 2005
Defects cropping up in new city buildings, Seattle Times, Apr. 24, 2005
HELP WANTED (job announcements in sustainable building)
Cascadia Green Building Council seeks volunteer or temporary part-time hourly database entry assistance in Portland office. Contact: Brandon@cascadiagbc.org
VEL Engineering seeks Professional Engineers for Project Manager in Vancouver, BC and Toronto offices. More info. Cover letter and resume to jmckay@veleng.com
The Northwest Earth Institute seeks Executive Director. Nonprofit budget of $600,000 and a staff of nine in Portland. More info
Job
Resources on Cascadia's Website
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