Enhance your career through this nine-month, specialized training program on improving buildings' economic and environmental performance. Graduates will be ready to advise employers and/or clients on strategies and tools for implementing sustainable building. Learn how to:

• Identify and articulate key sustainable building practices
  
• Apply LEED™ and other relevant criteria and established guidelines
  
• Analyze costs and benefits of incorporating sustainable building measures
  
• Establish sustainable design goals and achieve them in projects

Topics covered include energy efficient design, "green" materials, indoor environmental quality & health, water and site design, and more.

Classes will be held one weekend each month on Friday and Saturday, beginning October 5, 2007. Carol Cannon is the Lead Instructor, with Expert Guest Instructors each weekend.

• Fridays, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
• Saturdays, 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Getting ready to begin a renovation of a home or office? Use this checklist to ensure that safety, health and positive energy remain priorities during your project.

View the Green Renovation Checklist.

Anita Turner has over ten years of experience as a certified Feng Shui practitioner. She serves the southwest United States from her home in New Mexico and is available to provide Feng Shui consultations, workshops, or personal home parties. She also creates beautiful natural-element walls using her training in American clay, European plaster, and the ancient techniques of the Pueblo Indians and Spanish cultures of New Mexico.

Prescriptions for A Healthy House:A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders & Homeowners
by Paula Baker Laporte, Erica Elliott, M.D. & John Banta

This book, in its revised and expanded edition, continues to be a wonderful reference for anyone interested in creating a healthy home. Whether you are building, renovating, or tackling a small project, you will find the problems, case studies, and solutions very helpful -- especially for anyone suffering from environmental illness. Run, don't walk, to add this book to your collection!

 
Staying Healthy With the Seasons
by Elson M. Haas, M.D.

This book has been a long time favorite and seems appropriate to introduce again as we begin a shift of seasons.I have owned this book prior to the time I started studying Feng Shui and am delighted each season by how Dr. Haas incorporates the Chinese 5 elements into managing one's health.  If you want to understand how our bodies are related to the planet, read this book, now updated for the 21st Century.