Living Future 2009 Call for Submissions!
Do you have an innovative project, research or skill you'd like to share at Living Future 2009? The Living Future Program Committee is now accepting submissions for potential educational sessions from across the region and beyond. Living Future is an unconference for a reason – we are looking for creativity, depth, and innovation in both session topics and format. Proposals for green building tours and off-site sessions are also welcome.
Download the Call for Submissions, Deadline: November 12, 2008

Janine Benyus to give LF09 opening keynote
Cascadia is excited to announce that Janine Benyus, author of the influential book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, will give the opening keynote presentation for Living Future 2009. To learn more about Janine's inspiring and innovative work, visit www.biomimicry.net

For more information and to register for the 2009 unconference, visit the Living Future web site

Call for Information – Are you working on a Living Building Challenge project? We'd like to know! By registering your project, Cascadia is better equipped to promote your project, both through our media efforts and speaking engagements. We'd also like to hear about 'confidential' projects, too. In sharing, you grow the Living Building Challenge Community, which helps set the framework for future Living Building Challenge protocol and updates. Please email Darby with questions or project information.

Living Building Leader Sessions Now Available!

Sessions W01:Site Flow, E03:Load Reduction, and S03: Urban Restoration Ecology are all available for video playback from the Living Building Leader site.

If you have yet to enjoy a session, why wait? The program is available on-demand and provides a means to develop the diverse and intensive skill set needed to effect transformative change in the building industry. Take the session quiz to receive credit towards Living Building Leader designation. Sessions are $75 for Cascadia members, $90 for non-members.
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Building Materials Questionnaire
Use the Questionnaire to help evaluate the products you source and understand potentially hidden impacts beyond typical metrics of cost, performance and aesthetics. The questions are reflective of the evaluation protocol found in the Living Building Challenge and the Pharos Project Framework indicators.

If you are a manufacturer or product representative, please file a questionnaire for each product or product line offered. If you are a consumer, please ask manufacturers and product representatives with whom you interact to complete the questionnaire. As questionnaires are completed and returned, we will add them to an online and freely accessible repository.
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Call for Information – Are you working on a Living Building Challenge project? We'd like to know!
By registering your project, Cascadia is better equipped to promote your project, both through our media efforts and speaking engagements. We'd also like to hear about 'confidential' projects, too. In sharing, you grow the Living Building Challenge Community, which helps set the framework for future Living Building Challenge protocol and updates. Please email Darby with questions or project information.

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USGBC Call for Reviewers for Education Provider Program
The U.S. Green Building Council issued an ongoing call for USGBC members interested in joining the team that provides peer review of the courses and content that make up the Education Provider Program. Green building subject matter experts and educators are sought for this team.
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Cascadia LEED Statistics (As of 10/06/08)

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. Available for purchase now!
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Carbon Free Prosperity 2025
“Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025,” a joint report by the research and publishing firm Clean Edge and advocacy group Climate Solutions, highlights how Oregon and Washington can create green jobs, deliver energy security, and thrive in the global clean-tech marketplace. The report focuses on the region's key assets and weaknesses, the top five regional cleantech opportunities, a 10-point action plan for reaching carbon neutrality in OR and WA, how the region can reach a 75% carbon-free energy goal, and how to create between 41,000 and 63,000 clean-tech jobs by 2025.
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2009 Nature in Neighborhoods Restoration and Enhancement Grants

The Portland metropolitan area is expanding. This growth increases pressure on water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. How can our region achieve a balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to improve ecological functions within our growing urban areas? How can existing neighborhoods increase the presence of nature? The Metro Council is seeking creative answers to these questions through the Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants program. Pre-applications due January 7, 2009

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DASH: Database for Analyzing Sustainable and High Performance Buildings

DASH, formerly the High Performance Building Database Protocol and Repository, is seeking interested parties to participate on Dash working groups, including Clearinghouse, Protocol, Repository, and Marketing & Outreach groups. The mission of the DASH is to facilitate consistent collection of quantitative data about green, sustainable, and high performance buildings through collaboration of existing building information databases, organizations, companies, & researchers.
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Oregon Sustainable Building Expo & Conference, Call for Speakers
Deadline, October 25.
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AIA 2009 Committee on Design Competition
The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design, through a concept design problem following the Living Building Challenge. Winners will receive funding to attend the COD Spring Design Conference in Boston and have their work exhibited at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA Web site.
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What does a living building cost?
by Sam Bennett, Portland Daily Journal of Commerce
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Federal Bailout Extends Green Building Tax Credit
by Timothy B. Hurst, redgreenandblue.org
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'Green-tech' industry could create local jobs, report says
by Robert McClure, Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Housing Expert Sees Green Building as Growth Area
by Sharon McLoone, The Washington Post
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Green Building is Growing Despite Down Market, According to Report from McGraw-Hill Construction
MarketWatch.com
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Extremely Green Building Tried in Northwest
by Tom Banse, OPB News
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Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (BEST) is hiring an Operations Director
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Nike is hiring a Sustainable Projects/Energy Manager
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The City of Issaquah is hiring a Resource Conservation Coordinator
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BC Housing is hiring a Sustainability Analyst
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Click Here to visit the Cascadia job board to view Green Building jobs throughout the month.