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The Weekly Bulletin to 8/15/14

By Grey Lee by Grey Lee, USGBC MA What's been going on? I hope you've had a good time getting out into the countryside, or the oceanside for that matter. Though the city existence has good moments too.       Coming up next Saturday is our EPMA Summer Bike...

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The Net Zero Imperative with Eric Corey Freed

By Grey Lee Star of the organicARCHITECT world, Eric Corey Freed came to the USGBC MA to present his program on "The Net Zero Imperative" this morning. Almost 20 practitioners came out to roll up their sleeves and hear Eric's 20-point plan on how to get to net...

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The Weekly Bulletin to 8/8/14

By Grey Lee New office, new views:     The Chapter hasn't missed a beat. We are moving full steam ahead with vigorous programming for the rest of the year. We just had our August Board Meeting and discussed our upcoming website renovation - we have just selected a...

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LEED Project Showcase 2014: Your Sponsorship is Requested

By Grey Lee The following is a letter sent to over 150 eligible LEED Project Teams to encourage their participation in the Showcase. If you know anyone who's worked on a LEED-certified building in the past year and a half, please refer them to me so we can bring...

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USGBC MA Chapter

By Grey Lee USGBC MA Chapter has a new home!     We have officially started operations at the new CIC Boston coworking facility - at 50 Milk Street in Boston. We are now on the 19th floor with many of our colleagues from Space with a Soul. The new location is between...

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Chapter Volunteer Phoebe Beierle Nationally Recognized

By Grey Lee Phoebe Beierle, long-time Chapter volunteer and former Board President, has been recognized in the magazine gb&d - a 50,000 subscriber portal for all things in the green building & design world.   Congratulations to Phoebe for being acknowledged as one of...

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BEUDO Passes in Cambridge

By Grey Lee The City of Cambridge has passed the Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance. Read more about the vote here. We have resources for learning more about BEUDO and building energy benchmarking in general on our advocacy resources page. The USGBC MA Chapter...

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Tuesday, September 30: The 2014 MA LEED Project Showcase

By Grey Lee Are you ready for the biggest LEED show in New England? That's right, the 2014 LEED Project Showcase is coming right up in 2 months. This year we expect to be even bigger and better than last year. Did you catch that video we made? We anticipate over...

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The Weekly Bulletin to 7/25/14

By Grey Lee It's been a busy summer so far with the Chapter. We had a great time at Spaulding Rehab on the 17th - take a look at the pics for more on that!   Then on Wednesday our wonderful Emerging Professionals (EPMA) put together a great "Oceanview Summer...

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