By Grey Lee
What's up?
– BERDO VICTORY (again!) – see our update at our BERDO Advocacy resource page. Brian Swett sent us a nice thank-you note.
– BEUDO is Coming to Cambridge! That's right B-E-U-D-O – “Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance” is the term for the People's Republic's policy to require energy & water disclosure into a public database. You can read more at this one-pager about it from the city's Community Development Department.
Of course USGBC MA supports this ordinance. You can also support it at a hearing this Monday 5/19/14 at 5/30pm at Cambridge City Hall Sullivan Chamber. Let me know if you'd like to attend.
The USGBC Chapters Annual Report, detailing the situation for the 76 chapters throughout North America, is a great read if you're interested in our strategic goals as a movement and how USGBC is evolving. Special note: USGBC MA has gone up in the rankings, in terms of numbers of members, from #40 to #17. Thank you all!
This Sunday: Don't forget to check out the Boston Environmental Film Festival – multiple awesome environmental documentaries with speaker panels to discuss at each screening. Check out the full program at “e”-inc., the organizers of the Festival.
Upcoming Chapter Events:
Next week:
Credential Maintenance Webinars:
- 5/20/14 at 12:00pm in Amherst, LEED v4 Water Efficiency & Energy & Atmosphere
- 5/21/14 at 4:30pm in Boston, “LEED v4 Materials & Resources
- 5/22/14 at 6:00pm in Worcester, “LEED v4 Materials & Resources
Greenovate Boston Community Summit – Saturday 5/31/14
Take a look at this handy summary of all the upcoming events we have that we just sent out the other day to our email subscribers.
Global Head of Sustainability, Superior Essex
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
PE | Associate, LeMessurier
Vice President, AEW’s Architecture & Engineering group
Interior Designer, Jacobs, Boston
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation and Development U.S. Green Building Council
AIA LEED AP BD+C | Senior Associate, Gensler Boston 
LEED Fellow, WELL AP | Founder and Principal, Ecoworks Studio
AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
LEED AP BD+C | Environmental Sustainability Manager, Armstrong World Industries
Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Principal & Director of Certifications and Consulting, Epsten Group, Inc.
Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jamestown
Director of Sustainability Programs, DASNY | LEED AP BD+C
Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy Realty Corporation
Co-Founder, Facilitator at The Laurentia Project | LEED AP BD+C, LFA
Vice President of Sustainable Development, Shaw
Founder and President, Board of the Healthy Building Network
Building Technology Director, Kingspan North America
LEED® AP ID+C, BD+C, USGBC Faculty, WELL® AP, WELL Faculty and Fitwel Ambassador
Workplace Strategy Expert and Researcher, EYP
Principal, Integrated Ecostrategy
Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
Principal, Bruner/Cott
Architect, Associate, and Sustainability Design Leader, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
FAIA, LEED Fellow, Long Green Specs
Products & Materials Specialist, BuildingGreen
Director of Acquisitions and Development
Director of Restorative Enterprise, Interface
Sustainability Manager, Consigli Construction Company