An Evening with John L. Knott, Jr, Noisette: A Model for the New American City
Jan 31, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Seattle Public Library, Microsoft Auditorium
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Living Future 08 April 16-18
Vancouver, BC Registration opening this month!
EVENTS - OREGON
Portland LEED User's Group (PLUG): LEED for Neighborhood Development
Jan 10, ***New Time***Noon- 1:30PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW Third Ave, Ste. 400
Portland More Info
EGB PDX Petal Series: Introduction
Jan 14, 6PM-7:30PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave., Ste 400 Portland
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EGB PDX Petal Series: Site
Jan 21, 6PM-7:30PM,
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave., Ste 400 Portland
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EGB PDX Petal Series: Materials Jan 28, 6PM-7:30PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave, Ste 400 Portland
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EGB PDX Petal Series: Energy Feb 4, 6PM-7:30PM Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave. Ste 400 Portland More Info
How To Use Performance Modeling to Support the Integrate Design Practice
Feb 7, 10AM-4PM University of Oregon Building, 722 SW 2nd Ave. Portland
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EGB PDX Petal Series: Water
Feb 11, 6PM-7:30PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave, Ste 400 Portland
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EGB PDX Petal Series: Indoor Air
Feb 19, 6PM-7:30 PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave, Ste 400 Portland More Info
EGB PDX Petal Series: Beauty and Inspiration
Feb 25, 6PM-7:30PM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW 3rd Ave, Ste 400 Portland
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LEED-NC Technical Review Workshop
Feb 13, 8AM-5PM
Table Rock Campus
White City More Info
EVENTS - WASHINGTON
Seattle LEED User's Group (SLUG): Advanced Commissioning
Jan 8, 7:30-9AM
Lighting Design Lab
Seattle More Info
Tacoma/ Olympia Branch Meeting
Jan 10, 7:30-9AM
6th Avenue Place
Tacoma More Info
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Holcim AwardsReception
Jan 17, 5:30-8:30PM
Westin Bayshore
Vancouver More Info
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
USGBC Webinar Series- Carbon Reduction
Jan 9, 10AM-Noon More Info
Fix It Fair
Jan 12, 8:30AM-2PM
Lent School, 5105 SE 97th Ave
Portland, OR More Info
BCIT Green Roofs Course Jan 15, 1PM-5PM
BCIT's Centre for the Advancement of Green Roof Technology
Vancouver, BC More Info
SEPA and NEPA Workshop
Jan 16, 8AM-5:30PM
Red Lion Hotel
Seattle, WA More Info
Integrated Design Meets real World
Jan 16, 2-5PM
AIA Centre for Architecture, Portland, OR More Info
BCIT Green Roofs Course
Jan 16, 6-9PM
BCIT's Centre for the Advancement of Green Roof Technology
Vancouver, BC More Info
Market Insights Breakfast Seminar
Jan 23, 7:30-10AM
Segal School of Business, 500 Granville St.
Vancouver, BC More Info
Greening Your Business Workshop
Jan 24, 7:30AM-Noon
Manteo Resort
Kelowna, BC More Info
Advanced Buildings Core Performance
Jan 29, 8AM-12:30PM
Clark Public Utilities, Vancouver, WA
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Green Building Opportunities for Developers and Communities
Feb 5, 9AM-5PM
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Seattle, WA More Info
Green Building Finance and Investment Forum
Feb 20-22
JW Marriot, Union Square
San Francisco, CA More Info
Integrating Habitats: A Design Competition Event
Feb 26, 6-8PM
Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR
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Advanced Buildings Core Performance
Feb 28, 8AM-12:30PM
Commission Meeting Room, Snohomish Public Library, Everett, WA
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Building Green in a Changing Climate Conference and Tradeshow
Mar 4-5
The Florence Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton Ave.
Courtenay, BC More Info
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Alaska!
As of January 1st, the great State of Alaska is officially a part of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council - joining British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. The Alaska Branch of Cascadia will become actively engaged in our regional efforts to change the design and construction industry. Cascadia will seek funding for an Alaska State Director in 2008 and will be rolling out programming for Alaska in the second quarter. Please join our staff and board in warmly welcoming the Alaskan members to our organization!
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Board Nominations
Help shape the future of green building in Cascadia! Cascadia seeks exceptionally qualified applicants for election to the Cascadia Board of Directors. Any Individual Member of Cascadia is qualified to apply for election to the Board. All interested candidates are encouraged to submit information to seek a seat on the Board in this election by February 11. If you would like to nominate someone else, please send his or her name and contact information to bob@cascadiagbc.org no later than February 4. Winners will be announced at the Living Future Conference in April.
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An Evening with John L. Knott Jr, Noisette: A Model For the New American City
Join Cascadia and program partners for a presentation by John Knott, president and founder of the Noisette Company, LLC, based in North Charleston, SC. Knott is leading the Noisette Project, a 3,000-acre redevelopment of the former Charleston Naval Base, currently one of the largest sustainable urban renewal projects in the United States. He has a vision to turn this project into a model for an environmentally conscious, socially just city for the 21st century - the New American City. The event will take place on January 31 at the Seattle Public Library; doors will open at 5:00pm and the program will start at 5:30pm.
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Living Building Leader Program In May, Cascadia will launch a series of advanced education courses tied to a new professional certification: Living Building Leader. These technical courses will be offered through an eLearning platform to disseminate the highest recognized level of green knowledge in the industry. Look for more information in the upcoming months!
Introducing a New Sponsor Benefit
Starting in 2008 Cascadia will be periodically releasing RFP's for research projects, paid guest faculty and more. This will allow active supporters of Cascadia to compete for prestigious projects to help move the green building movement forward. Cascadia will be releasing two such RFP's sometime in January and February. Be on the look-out for exciting projects that you may want to pursue. A hint.... A living building research project will be announced soon!
Vancouver Island Branch Launch
The Vancouver Island Branch is holding its official launch on February 6th, 2008 in Victoria, BC. The day will start with a tour of one of the newest green buildings on the campus of the University of Victoria and include a presentation on campus by Cascadia CEO, Jason F. McLennan. Later in the day, a separate public lecture will be held in downtown Victoria at St. Ann’s Academy for people interested in learning more about green buildings. We hope to see you there! More Info
2008 Natural Talent Design Competition
The Cascadia Emerging Green Builders are asking students and young professionals throughout the bioregion to tackle the design of a Living Building! The 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition will engage the bright green young minds of our region as they find solutions to the challenges presented at this level of sustainability. Competition entrants will gain access to the Living Building Forum to aid their progress. The winner will be announced at the Living Future 08 in April, and will win a trip to Greenbuild in Boston and the chance to compete in the national competition. Registration opens January 18th.
Emerging Green Builders PDX Petal Series
Throughout January and February, students and young professionals in Portland will have the opportunity to learn about the framework of Living Buildings through the PDX Petal Series, a series of six lectures, each focused on a different Living Building petal. Taught by experienced green building practitioners, these lectures will serve as a great tool for those interested in entering the Natural Talent Design Competition.
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LEED Accredited Professionals (As of 9/30/07)
Oregon: 1,108
Washington: 2,169
British Columbia: 605
2008 Edition of the Build it LEED Toolkit is Hot Off the Press!
The Build it LEED Toolkit for LEED NC v2.2 provides all of the necessary tools for contractors to implement the LEED process. Authored by O’Brien & Company and Cascadia, the Toolkit contains an overview of LEED, project management tools, tips and tricks, details on specific contractor responsibilities, and electronic plan templates and tracking tools for the contractor to get up to speed on LEED quickly and easily. The enclosed CD-ROM, oversize flow charts and LEED credit responsibilities checklist demystifies the process, and provides a documentation binder to document LEED compliance. Order the Build it LEED Toolkit for Contractors today!
2008 Holcim Awards
The Holcim Awards competition is now open for entries and will close on February 29, 2008. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects from around the globe and provides prize money of USD 2 million per three-year competition cycle. More Info
Green Building Finance and Investment Forum
The green building industry and financial community will come together on February 20-22 in San Francisco to discuss new practices and current markets for financing and investing in green buildings. This is the first ever event specifically designed to bring these players into the same room to share experiences, best practices, new paradigms and successes, as well as to confront the novel challenges of this rapidly growing asset class.
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Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Incentive Grants: Call for Proposals Through Incentive Grants and Recognition Awards, the Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Awards Program celebrates innovative curricular activities based on the guiding principles of the U.S. Green Building Council. The program recognizes pre-K through college-level curricula that advance the green building ideals of transforming how buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated. The intent of the awards and grants is to celebrate and disseminate discrete and replicable pedagogical efforts. Proposals due March 17th. More Info
United Nations Report on Buidlings and Climate Change
Read the United Nations Sustainable Buildings and Construction report on Buildings and Climate Change. Read the Report
A BIMStorm's a brewin'
Engineeringgreen07 speaker Kimon Onuma and his firm Onuma Inc. are hosting the ground-breaking 2008 Log Angeles BIMStorm on January 31. The challenge is to use Building Information Modeling to design over 30 blocks with 30 million square feet of building space in real time over 24 hours. The event will be broadcast live via the Internet. More Info
The Story of Stuff From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. More Info
City of Portland's RFP for the Green Investment Fund
The City of Portland requests proposals for innovative, high performance green building projects. Funded through the City of Portland's Green Investment Fund (GIF), this grant supports the design and construction of highly innovative and comprehensive green building projects. The GIF is a partnership between the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development, Portland Water Bureau, Bureau of Environmental Services and Energy Trust of Oregon. In the current round of funding to be awarded in 2008, a total of $425,000 is available. The maximum grant amount for any project is also $425,000. Proposals are due Feb 4. More Info
View the Pagoda from PDX Lounge at City Hall
For the month of January, the Pagoda from PDX Lounge will on display in the south atrium of Portland City Hall, on the 4th Ave side of the building. This unique piece of craftsmanship was created by PDX Lounge partners The Collins Companies, 9Wood, Columbia Forest Products, and IF Green.
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Face it - There is a Solution to Global Warming Tune in to Architecture 2030's webcast beginning 9 am EST on January 30. Learn not only how to solve global warming, but also what you need to do to enter the two unusual and exciting competitions.
The Natural House Pilot Series
The Natural House is a sustainable and green home tour and building series, illustrating how creative, motivated and passionate homeowners incorporate innovative design, emerging technologies and natural building materials to building uniquely livable homes that reflect principles of harmony, health and ecological balance. More Info
'Living building' set to go
by Toby Van Fleet, Portland Tribune Read the Article
A green house will grow in Felida
by Erik Robinson, The Columbian Read the Article
Building Green... or at least greener
by Robert McClure, Seattle Post Intelligencer Read the Article
West Linn council adopts green building standard
by Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian Read the Article
Canada launches clean energy software
Natural Resources Canada Read the Article
A Cautionary Tale
by Wayne Curtis, Preservation Magazine Read the Article
Green building to take root
by Kim Westad, Times Colonist Read the Article
Eighty-year-old building gets LEED renovation
by Dan Carter, Daily Journal of Commerce Read the Article
British Columbia appoints Vancouver architect to climate-action team
Daily Commercial News Read the Article
Green roofs taking root
by Susan Palmer, The Register Guard Read the Article
Please visit the new Cascadia job board to view Green Building jobs throughout the month. More Info
Cascadia's mission is to promote the design, construction and operation of buildings in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live, work and learn.
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