Green Broker Early Registration Ends Thursday May 8 – Register today and save!

Green Broker is May 22 – Don’t miss this chance to get your introduction to the green building universe! Not only for commercial real estate and finance professionals, but also for those looking for a beginning to intermediate level conference on green building, Green Broker will be your portal to the future of the built environment. Leverage your expertise and gain access to a network of the most forward-thinking professionals in the region. Visit the Green Broker website to view the incredible lineup of presentations and to register.

The Living Building Leader is now open for registration!
Join us for the first session, FREE!
These advanced online learning opportunities feature leading-edge presenters delivering the technical, philosophical and strategic skills needed to build Living Buildings. All sessions are Wednesdays, 9am-12pm PST.

All fifteen 2008 sessions are listed on the Living Building Leader schedule, starting with Spirit + meaning in design on June 4. This session, plucked from our Beauty + inspiration Petal, examines how buildings can celebrate place, culture, and the environment. To give future Living Building Leaders a taste of what's to come, we're offering the first 100 spaces free of charge. We hope this inspires you to register for subsequent sessions, and to spread the word about this new program! See the Spirit + meaning in design session description page for details on accessing the coupon for free registration.

June 18 is the first of seven installments for the Energy Petal, Context + integration, which will provide a different take on the impact of a building's location on the larger landscape, yielding insights into onsite energy efficiency and production.

All sessions are offered live and online, to allow universal access. Visit www.livingbuildingleader.org for more about the Living Building Leader program and its offerings.

Living Future 08 Highlights!
Canada’s emerald city took on an even deeper hue on April 16-18, as nearly 400 of North America’s greenest building practitioners descended upon Vancouver for Living Future 2008. Cascadia's signature conference provided attendees with a top notch educational sessions, unique and lively networking opportunities, and inspirational keynote presentations from Paul Hawken, Jason F. McLennan, Thomas Mueller and Sim Van der Ryn. Living Future 08 was truly an inspirational event, but don't take our word for it; here's what some of the delegates had to say:

"I particularly liked that the conference was genuinely on the forefront of sustainability. There was a general sense of people not wanting to re-iterate the same things again, but rather really push forward for the next step. There was a lot of determination to make the next big leap.”

“My favorite part [of Living Future] was sensing the incredible Zen in the air from the growing awareness for the environment.”

“The overall atmosphere was quite inspiring. The enthusiasm was high among most participants and, in addition to quality sessions and speakers, it was refreshing to brainstorm and talk with other practitioners.”

“I talk about the ideas in the office and spread the words from the conference to all the people in my life.”
**photos by Chad Kirkpatrick, witnesstobeauty.com

Living Future 09
Cascadia is excited to announce Portland as the host city for Living Future 09. Next year's theme will be: Cultivating Leadership: Shift Global Consciousness. Begin with One. Cascadia wants to make Living Future 09 a true community building effort; if you would like to be involved in the planning, join the Living Future 09 Uncommittee by clicking here.

2008 Cascadia Fellows

From left to right, Charlie Brown, John Jennings, Deb Guenther, Kathleen O'Brien, Thomsa Mueller. Not pictured, Dr. Ray Cole.
photo by Chad Kirkpatrick, witnesstobeauty.com
The Cascadia fellowship program was created in 2007 to celebrate exemplary leadership in the Pacific Northwest in the field of sustainable design and development. The appointment to fellowship is a lifetime achievement and is intended to be the most pre-eminent recognition program related to the green design and construction industry in the Northwest. Please join us in recognizing the following 2008 fellows for their contributions and commitment to green building in the Pacific Northwest and beyond!

Charlie Brown, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, University of Oregon
Ray Cole, Professor, School of Architecture, University of British Columbia
Deb Guenther, Principal, MITHUN
John Jennings, Manager, BetterBricks New Construction
Thomas Mueller, President, Canada Green Building Council
Kathleen O'Brien, President, O'Brien & Co., Inc

Cascadia Board of Directors Election Results- New and Re-elected Board Members
Cascadia is pleased to announce the results of our 2008 Board of Directors election. Please join us in welcoming new and re-elected board members! Thanks to all of the Cascadia members who ran for the Board and voted in the elections.
Click Here for the current Cascadia Board roster.

Natural Talent Design Competition (NTDC) Winners!
The winners of the 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition were announced at Living Future! First place went to Eco•laboratory a team of young professionals comprised of Brian Geller, Dan Albert, Chris Dukehart, and Myer Harrell. Responding to the Living Building Challenge in the heart of Seattle's Belltown, the team acknowledged that "there is no silver bullet" for sustainability, yet demonstrated innovative solutions throughout the design. Honorable mention was given to The Junction, designed by the Emerging Green Builders of Victoria team, Carla Safrany, Nadine Anseeuw, Stewart Burgess, Sarah Stoner, and Melissa Lawrence. The Junction pursued an urban solution that weaves together the sustainable with the socially just.
Click Here to view the competition submissions.

Regulatory barriers to the Living Building Challenge - Your input needed by May 12th
Cascadia has partnered with the Development Center for Appropriate Technology to produce a White Paper on Code Barriers to the Living Building Challenge. Developers, architects, contractors, code officials, researchers, and anyone with experience on code or approval barriers and related solutions to innovative green building projects are encouraged to share their insights. Surveys due by May 12th, 2008.
Click Here to take the survey.

The Pharos Project Green Materials Selection Workshop - Portland, June 19th
This half-day workshop tackles the issues and challenges inherent in understanding green products. Join Cascadia's Research Directors, Thor and Eden, for an overview of Pharos, covering topics included in the project’s operating principles, Framework - the performance metrics by which products are evaluated - and how these can be applied to the day-to-day selection and specification process. Coming to Seattle on August 21st and Vancouver on October 16!
Click Here to Register

New and Renewed Friends of Cascadia

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Welcome Becky
Becky joins Cascadia as the first home-based position serving AK, with a lot of ground, literally, to cover. Concurrently with staffing the Cascadia AK office, Becky retains a position as an intern architect at McCool, Carlson and Green, a design firm in Anchorage. Becky has been a LEED consulting architect at HDR, Alaska, where she sheparded two large military projects through the LEED certification process. Becky was also the Sustainable Design and Development Coordinator for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, where in 2004 through 2007, she was an early implementor of LEED for Corps construction in Alaska.
Click Here for more about Becky.

Welcome back Jessica
Cascadia is excited to welcome back Jessica Woolliams our British Columbia Co-Director. Jessica has been on maternity leave since the summer of 2007 caring for her daughter Ellie. She will be joining Mona Lemoine in co-directorship of the British Columbia region. Feel free to contact either Jessica or Mona for more information about Cascadia's programs in British Columbia.

New LEED Certified Projects

NorthWest Crossing Building Receives LEED Silver Certification

Cascadia LEED Statistics (As of 4/2/08)

New and Improved LEED Study cards!
Cascadia is excited to offer updated LEED-NC V2.2 Electronic Study cards. These electronic cards have been updated with new multiple choice questions to better prepare candidates for the LEED-AP exam. New questions have been added and updated in all categories of the LEED rating system. The cards will be available for purchase May 20th!

Not all T-Shirts are created equal... introducing Cascadia's Living T-Shirt!
The Cascadia T-shirt purchasing department has scoured the internet for a quality T-shirt that lives up to our sustainability focused mission and progressive social consciousness. The Cascadia Living T-shirt is made of 100% certified organic cotton, is sewn in the USA using no sweatshop labor, contains no PVC or phthalates and is fabricated with the use of only biodegradable detergents and no chlorine bleach. Available in S, M, L, XL and XXL.
Buy yours today!
And coming soon in baby onesies! Preorder now!

AIA/COTE 2008 Top Ten Green Projects
The 2008 COTE Top Ten Green Projects program celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology. They make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, low-impact and regenerative site development, energy and water conservation, use of sustainable or renewable construction materials, and design that improves indoor air quality.
Click Here to see the 2008 Top Ten Winners

LEED for Homes Reference Guide Now Available For Pre-Order Online
The LEED for Homes Reference Guide, a comprehensive tool for residential builders using the LEED for Homes Green Building Rating System, is now available for purchase online at www.usgbc.org/store. The Reference Guide offers over 350 pages of information, resources and standards for the LEED credits covered within the residential green home certification program.
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LEED buildings get Portland cash
by Becky Brun, Sustainable Industries Journal
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How "Green" Can a Huge House Be?
by Lisa Prevost, the New York Times
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Countrywide Offers Green Home Buyers a Financial Break
by Danielle Johnson, The Seattle Post Intelligencier
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Portland projects amoing first to receive new LEED certification
by Sam Bennett, the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce
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Portland home goes ultra-green
by Gail Kinsley Hill, The Oregonian
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Living on the edge with Living Buildings!
the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Blog
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Green goes mainstream
by Diane Dietz, The Register Guard
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Investment in the green building sector is booming
by Jeremy Jacquot, the Venture Beat
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"Net zero" water goal is an obstacle for supergreen house
by Erik Robinson, The Columbian
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Looking to Become a Green Professional?
Attend the 2008 Northwest Green Professionals Conference on June 2 at the Benson Hotel in Portland, OR. This conference is for students and professionals and will provide learning, networking and employment opportunities within the sustainability industry.
Click Here for more information and to register.

Portland Energy Conservation Inc (PECI) is hiring a Residential Lighting Coordinator
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The Climate Trust is hiring an Offset Portfolio Coordinator
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The Whistler Centre for Sustainability is hiring an Executive Director
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Climate Solutions is hiring a Harvesting Clean Energy Program Manager
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Please visit the Cascadia job board to view Green Building jobs throughout the month.
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