BE+ Community Blog

Innovation in Green Design Showcase

By Grey Lee Our friends at the New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ) have put together a great special edition highlighting various of our the excellent projects that entered our Innovation in Green Design Award contest in April. Here's the blog entry about the...

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Fun Networking at Knoll!

By Grey Lee Last night we had the first in our new series of Networking Nights for the USGBC MA Chapter in Boston.   Knoll - furniture provisioner extraordinaire - provided their LEED Platinum showroom space and a full array of beverages and food for our community. It...

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Platinum Tour of the UTEC in Lowell

By Grey Lee In June 12th, the Emerging Professionals (EPMA) hosted a green building tour and networking night in Lowell. United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) was the venue and provided a great opportunity to see a LEED Platinum facility. It is actually the oldest...

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Fraunhofer hosted the

By Grey Lee Fraunhofer hosted the Climate, Mind & Behavior Program June gathering of the Garrison Institute's Boston Hub. We had about 25 people come out to their new facility at 5 Channel Center Street in the Innovation District. Fraunhofer performs a lot of...

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Networking Nights are Back!

By Grey Lee It's time to connect. Join your fellow Green Building professionals and enthusiasts for an informal evening of networking on June 18th. Don't miss this chance to re-launch our energizing series of monthly gatherings designed to bring you together...

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The USGBC Annual Report is Out!

By Grey Lee If you really want to geek out about the USGBC!   Each year, the national organization collects information from the many chapters across the country to get a sense of how much advocacy, education, and professional development work is happening.   Caution:...

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Green Apple Day of Service

By Grey Lee The USGBC's Center for Green Schools is once again promoting Green Apple Day of Service to advance healthy, sustainable schools!    The inaugural Green Apple Day of Service, held on September 29, 2012, had more than 1,250 service projects in 49...

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A Green Building That Helps Make Everything Greener

By Grey Lee In the interests of full disclosure, I submitted this building for the recent Green Building of the Year Award. My connection to this building is not as a member of the project team, but as one who gets to work in this building on a daily basis. I lived...

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Building Energy Disclosure

By Grey Lee The US Green Building Council Massachusetts Chapter supports the proposed building energy disclosure ordinance for the City of Boston. We have more information at our website here.     The Building Energy Reporting & Disclosure Ordinance is a Boston policy...

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Green Schools Update (May)

By Grey Lee by Steve Muzzy   I've been at the Chapter for nearly three weeks and have been getting up to speed with operations and meeting members of the Chapter network. It is inspiring to learn about all the activities the Chapter is involved in to advance green...

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Green Buildings for Peace & Prosperity

By Grey Lee I wrote a short introductory note to our newsletter yesterday [click on "April Newsletter"] and got a lot of comments in return. My basic thing is that green buildings are examples of reduced violence and can help psychologically reduce violence in our...

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