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The Vancouver Island Branch of the Cascadia Green Building Council is excited to host the Living Building Symposium on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 at the Victoria Conference Centre. The Symposium will provide an introduction to the different elements of the Living Building Challenge the world's most stringent building standard. The speakers, including keynote Jason McLennan, will explore the twenty imperatives of the Living Building Challenge. 

Drawing on the perspectives of architects, builders, environmental professionals and health experts, the Living Building Symposium will attempt to demystify the theory and practice of the cutting edge of green building. If you are continuing your professional development or are looking to learn more about the industry and the future of the bioregion, the Living Building Symposium will expand your knowledge base and challenge your imagination. 

The Living Building Symposium is intended for industry professionals and citizens alike who are looking to make a positive change in their community. The Vancouver Island Branch of the Cascadia Green Building Council works to promote sustainability in the built environment through advocacy, education and outreach.  For more information, please visit here.

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View slides from the Competition here.

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Only 100 tickets left for Dr. Vandana Shiva's keynote on Wednesday, May 2.

The Spring unEdition is brimming with cutting-edge content:

Thought: Deep Community Resilience
People: Vandana Shiva
Design: Up to the Challenge
Action: Living, Learning, Building and Sharing

Also learn about 3 high-performance women in Portland, explore the materials transparency world, respond to the Living Building Challenge Ambassador network, see how the Living Future unConference and Portland, OR make such a perfect match, plus much more! 

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(Seattle, WA) – Jason F. McLennan, founder and creator of the Living Building Challenge and CEO of the International Living Future Institute, has been named a Fellow by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

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The International Living Future Institute invites individuals with innovative and unique ideas - both big and small - to share their brilliance with the world through the 15 Minutes of Brilliance program, scheduled to take place during the sixth annual Living Future unConferernce, May 2 - 4, 2012, in Portland, Oregon.

Read the Call for Presentations and learn more about 15 Minutes of Brilliance.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Feb, 6 2012 — The International Living Future Institute and the Portland Trail Blazers are calling all junior high and high school students in Oregon to unleash their brilliance and natural leadership. The students are being asked to devise new approaches to the social and environmental problems that they encounter in their daily lives and film 30-second videos to showcase their solutions.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Feb. 1, 2012 — The International Living Future Institute is pleased to announce its keynote speaker lineup for its sixth annual Living Future unConference.  A sold-out event since 2009, this year’s theme, “Women Reshaping the World,” is rapidly gaining traction as the must-see program for green building practitioners and sustainability-focused thought leaders.

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 To Register for Living Future 2012, please visit the unConference website.

Nationally renowned sustainability expert and Cascadia Fellow Kathleen O'Brien, along with David Eisenberg, John Cunningham, and Fiona Douglas Hamilton will provide insight on leadership based on years of experience guiding clients and others to a sustainable built environment March 17-18 at Emerge: Leadership for a Sustainable Society. Learn more

Produced by the Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in partnership with Cascadia, this report provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the potential environmental benefit of building reuse.

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What started as a competition to stimulate conversation about sustainability has influenced the city of Bend to rethink the infrastructure of Bend's future. 

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BEND, Ore. — Jan. 17, 2012 — In celebration of a unique and innovative partnership with the City of Bend, Cascadia Green Building Council announced today that its CEO, Jason F. McLennan, will deliver a free public lecture on January 30.

The lecture is sponsored by Bend’s Mayor Jeff Eager and the City Council. McLennan, an internationally renowned speaker, will discuss community transformation and the future of architecture and design. He also will address opportunities for Bend to embrace restorative development principles.

McLennan’s visit to Bend kicks off a unique collaboration between the City and Cascadia along with Cascadia’s parent organization, the International Living Future Institute. The Institute is a nonprofit organization that developed and administers the Living Building Challenge™, the world’s most progressive and stringent building standard. Living Building Challenge projects are quickly emerging around the world and demonstrate the highest level of environmental performance currently possible.

The City’s partnership with the Institute began in late 2010, when a group of Bend’s leading architects, planners and engineers came together to enter the Institute’s Living City Design Competition.  What emerged was the Bend Living City Project, which was supported by the action items of the BEND 2030 Vision.  The Project has since made an important contribution to Bend’s long-range planning.  The City now hopes to work with the Institute to apply the Living Building Challenge framework to future planning projects yet to be determined.  

“We’re excited about this phenomenal collaboration,” says Mayor Pro-Tem Jodie Barram.  “The BEND 2030 Vision, a Central Area Plan that needs re-invigorating, and the Institute's ability to look at sustainable systems in a way that will benefit Bend long term can be transformative.”

The lecture will be at the Tower Theater, 835 Northwest Wall Street, Bend. Doors open at 6 PM and the lecture begins at 6:30.