Become a Member!
Click here to learn how to become a member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and vote in the 2007 Cascadia Board Elections. Becoming a member has huge benefits - find out why you should join today!

100 Friends - New Benefits!
Cascadia has announced new and updated 100 Friends Benefits. Click here to view these new benefits.
Click here to view the 100 Friends of Cascadia.

Living Building Challenge V1.1
The Living Building Challenge Version 1.1 has been released. Please click here for the updated Guidelines.

Living Building Dialogue Forum
In two weeks time Cascadia will be launching its Living Building Dialogue Forum for people to post questions and comments about our groundbreaking program. Please check our website on Feb 22nd to continue the dialogue.

Cascadia Board Elections
In February Cascadia will be sending out requests for nomionations to our Board of Directors. Please start thinking of people that you feel would be of value to Cascadia as board members.

New Staff
Cascadia would like to welcome three new staff members, bringing our total staff up to 8 people! Also a hearty thanks and farewell to Aleisha Smith who just left Cascadia to travel the world. Best of luck!

Meagan Meyers, Executive Assistant to the CEO, Seattle WA Meagan joined Cascadia in December 2006 and has been busy keeping Jason organized and on track. More

Angie Morgan, Assistant Director, Seattle WA Angie comes to Cascadia from the field of cancer prevention research. More

Bob Potter, Administrative Assistant, Portland OR Bob joined Cascadia's Portland office in January 2007, coming from the Portland nonprofit, The ReBuilding Center. More

Living Future 07; 1st Annual Regional Conference
Cascadia Region Green Building Council (Cascadia) and AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) present the first annual, regional 2-day conference:
Living Future 2007

Keynotes Ed Mazria, Jason F. McLennan, Bob Berkebile and Kevin Hydes!

April 25-27, 2007, Seattle Center Pavilion A
Living Future will attract leading minds in North America to address climate change and the path to a future of Living Buildings.

Ed Mazria, FAIA, mastermind of the 2030 Challenge kicks off the AIA COTE What Makes it GREEN? and Cascadia's first annual regional celebration of green building at the Seattle Center.  Jason F. McLennan will roll out Cascadia's new initiatives including our Cascadia Fellowship Program. We'll introduce the Living Future Competition - prices for best Living Building Design; $1,500 for students/Emerging Green Builders. You'll learn about Pharos and USGBC's Living Building Competition Rules. Other keynotes include Bob Berkebile, FAIA, BNIM Architects and Kevin Hydes, Chair of the Board of the World Green Building Council and more than two dozen regional sustainability heroes! This is THE event of the year. Click here to register, sponsor, volunteer, exhibit or become a community partner.  

Living Future Design Competition ; Register by February 15th!
The AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment (COTE), along with the Cascadia Region Green Building Council is issuing a challenge to all entries to build in a way that will provide all of us with a sustainable future. Competition cash prizes will be awarded to the applicant teams from within the Cascadia bioregion (OR, WA, ID, MT, BC or AK) who best meet the Living Building Challenge.

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Sponsored by Cascadia and Paladino & Company.

Help Grow the Green Building Market!
Take a survey to help us gather information on Green Building products and services.
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EGB 2007 Competition registration is NOW OPEN!
The USGBC 2007 Natural Talent Design Competition provides an applied learning experience in the principles of integrated design, sustainability, innovation, and social consciousness. Participants will compete in a local competition, the top winner of which will move on to compete for a $5,000 national award at Greenbuild 2007 in LA.
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The 2010 Imperative, Global Emergency Teach-In
Global Emergency Teach-in: Are You Being Trained for the World You Will Inherit?
Live Web-Cast, Feb 20 9AM-12:30 PM PST
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Greenbuild 2007 New Dates
Greenbuild 2007 will now be held on Nov 7-9, 2007.
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BEST Awards
Commssioner Dan Saltzman and the City of Portland Office of Sustainable Devleopment invite Portland-area companies to apply for the Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow "BEST" Awards. Apply by February 15th.
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New LEED Certified Buildings

First Gold Building of 2007
The Louisa Apartments in Portland, OR has received LEED Gold certification.
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Gold LEED-CS
The UW Benjamin D. Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building, located in Seattle Washington is the first building on the West Coast to receive Gold LEED-CS.
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Podcast with Cascadia CEO, Jason McLennan
Click here to listen to Jason discuss The Living Building at Greenbuild 2006.

NEW! Green Building Playing Cards Cascadia is excited to offer Green Building Playing Cards. These full decks of cards offer a creative and fun way to educate and inspire people to adopt green building practices. Click Here to order.

NEW! LEED Version 2.2 Flash Cards! Cascadia has updated our "Flash Cards" to Version 2.2 Click here to order.

Lamp and Ballast Recycling
OSRAM SYLVANIA and Veolia Environmental Services have teamed up to provide environmentally responsible recycling alternatives.
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Lifecycle Building Challenge
Call for Entries! The U.S. EPA and its partners are seeking lifecycle designs from professionals and students,
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Design is (Shaw Contract Group)
Shaw Contract Group has announced their 2007 design competition.
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Who's Green 2007 Annual directory published by Ecotone Publishing, designed to serve as the pre-eminent resource book for locating firms, companies, organizations and institutions that are actively participating in the growth of the green building industry. Buy the Book

Build It LEED! Toolkit
The Toolkit is offered by Cascadia to complement the Build it LEED! training or as a stand alone tool. Authored by Ann Schuessler, Director of Sustainable Building Practices at The Rafn Company, and Elizabeth Powers, Project Manager at O'Brien & Company, the Toolkit provides the complete, step-by-step process of LEED Project Management from pre-construction through documentation including checklists for each phase, prepared forms for working with subcontractors, and tools for preparing LEED documentation.
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The Insider's Guide to Marketing Green Buildings by Jerry Yudelson. Over 200 pages charting the future direction of green building. Feb. 2005 update edition. Buy the Book

Rebuilt Green 120 pages, $10. "Rebuilt Green is the first book to explore the true meaning and social dimensions of green building." --Paul Hawken. Buy the Book

The Value of Green Building
by SIJ Staff, Sustainable Industries Journal
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Green Build Conference
by Architecture Week, Architecture Week
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As Green As the Grass Outside
by Charles Lockwood, Barron'™s
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If Not Nau, When?
Questions from Grist editors, Grist
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USGBC's Life Cycle Assessment Group Produces First Set of Recommendations
USGBC Staff, USGBC
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Finding the Green in Building Renovation
Lisa Chamberlain, New York Times
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Sustainability 101
Andrew Miner, Forest Grove Times
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Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (OSD) is hiring a Green Building Program Manager
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3Phases is hiring a Senior Manager, Partnerships and Business Development
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Mithun is hiring for several positions
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Sera Architects is hiring a Marketing Professional
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Green Building Services is hiring a Design Simulation Professional
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Climate Solutions is hiring a new Communications Director
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The City of Vancouver, BC is hiring a Sustainable Development Program Manager
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Zenger Farms is hiring a new Executive Director
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Habitat for Humanity of Seattle/South King County is hiring a Restore Manager
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The ReBuilding Center is hiring a Deconstruction Services Site Manger/Supervisor
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SAIC is hiring an Energy Efficiency Marketing Profesional
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The East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District is hiring a LID Specialist
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