BE+ Community Blog

Project Spotlight: United Teen Equality Center

By Grey Lee   The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell was established to serve the young people of Lowell, providing them with the necessary tools for success. Through a number of programs, including intensive street outreach and gang peacemaking, UTEC helps...

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LEED Core Concepts

By Grey Lee LEED Core Concepts for GA Exam w 6h GBCI When: March 6th, 2013 8:30 AM through 5:00 PM Where: Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard Boston, MA 02210 Register Now The USGBC Massachusetts Chapter is presenting a live, hands-on course for green...

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Free Money For Green Groundskeeping

By Grey Lee     It's always difficult getting folks to break out of their routine and embrace a better way of doing things.  This is even more true when you propose a more environmentally sound way of doing things.  The innovation may be a bit easier to adopt if...

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Annual Meeting of Fun

By Grey Lee What a great Annual Meeting on Monday night! Thanks again to Rachel Zsembery, Dee Spiro, Katya Carman and Carlos Alonso-Niemeyer for putting together such a fabulous evening! Thanks to everyone who came early and stayed late to help make it all...

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Member Profile: Megan Ramey

By Grey Lee   Key Details: LEED-GA Sustainability Coordinator at A Better City's Challenge for the Environment Market Sector: Non-Profit Organization   Contact information: email: mramey@abettercity.org LinkedIn profile: Megan Ramey, LEED Green Associate Personal...

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Advancing Sustainability with the BSA

By Grey Lee I attended a great meeting this morning with the Boston Society of Architects' Committee for the Advancement of Sustainability at the invitation from co-chairs Vernon Woodward and Ken Fisher. I had a chance to introduce myself to the 15 or so...

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Members Present “Flip the Switch” at NIOP on Jan 31st

By Grey Lee In two weeks, a few members are presenting Flip the Switch: New Energy Efficiency Requirements, Incentives and Tools for NIOP. Board member Greg Sampson, Attorney at Robinson & Cole, will moderate. Former board member Brian Swett, Chief of Energy &...

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Employee Profile: Zak Patten

By Grey Lee   Key Details: Communications Associate, USGBC - MA Chapter Student in Urban and Regional Policy program at Northeastern University (Master of Science expected May 2013) Contact information: Blog: http://www.usgbcma.blogspot.com/ Email:...

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Member Profile: Carolyn Day

By Grey Lee Key Details: Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C Sustainable Design Specialist at SMMA  Market sector: Architecture and Design Contact information: cday@smma.com Phone: 617.520.9416 Twitter: @PracticeEcology Personal Blog: www.practice-ecology.net   During this...

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Appreciating Members!

By Grey Lee We had a great event on Tuesday night. The photos are forthcoming (thanks Carlos!!!) And the winners of our various Member Awards were:   Most Likely to Send an Email at 3AM - Carrie Havey   Most Likely to Take Recycling Home from the Office - Dee Spiro  ...

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LEEDv4 – Better and Smaller!

By Grey Lee Last night we hosted a great program on the intricacies and details of LEEDv4 - the latest version of LEED which will be operational in June 2013 (we expect). Currently, the process to approve the new version is still open to comments (until 12/10/12) from...

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Member Profile: Jennifer Taranto

By Grey Lee Key Details: Certified LEED AP ID+C, BD+C Director of Sustainability at StructureTone, Inc.  Market sector: Construction or Trades   Contact information: jennifer.taranto@structuretone.com Phone: 617.348.2800 Twitter: @BeantownGurl   We recently sat down...

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In San Francisco for Greenbuild 2012

By Grey Lee Many of us are here for Chapter Day, and several will be arriving over the course of the next few hours. Everyone is getting pumped up. Be sure to keep in touch over Twitter using hashtag #usgbcma with #greenbuild so we can share with each other and those...

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Are you going to be around for ABX2012?

By Grey Lee Next week is Boston's annual construction industry conference, ArchitectureBoston Expo (formerly BuildBoston) and it seems like there are going to be a whole slew of us USGBCMAers there. Even if you weren't planning on attending the full...

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Members Presenting at November 2012 Conferences

By Grey Lee Every year, the ArchitectureBoston Expo/ABX (formerly Build Boston) and Greenbuild are held in November. Every other year, they unfortunately happen on the same week. This is one of those years. Luckily, we can celebrate USGBC MA Members presenting at...

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