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Baseline: The Foundation for Any Effective Sustainability Plan

A rock-solid, carefully engineered foundation is an absolute necessity for any serious building project. And so it is with sustainability planning; without a great baseline, vision statements, goals, objectives, and metrics will lack cohesiveness and focus.

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Examine the Issues

CALGreen - Triumphs and Challenges

On January 1, 2011, CALGreen, California’s new statewide green building code, went into effect – soon followed by widespread confusion, panic (and quite possibly tears) among those responsible for securing building permits on new projects.

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Discover Value

Risk Management in Sustainable Design

Architecture and engineering firms need to be aware of the professional liability risk they undertake on green building projects.

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Client Corner - Sustainability From Your Side

"If you’re at the head of the pack and do nothing, everyone else passes you by after a few years."
- Cate Millar, The Leftbank Annex

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The More You Know...

To stand still professionally is to be moving backwards, particularly in today’s job market.

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Connect with Us

Spring Sustainability Webinar Series

Fill your sustainability knowledge gaps and continuing education credits with our spring series of free sustainability webinars. These one hour sessions will cover Risk Management in Green Building, CALGreen, how to fulfill your USGBC Continuing Education requirements and more.

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Living Future 2011

Connect with Nicole Isle at Living Future 2011, where she'll be speaking on assessment methods for EcoDistricts.

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Innovate to Excel

Opening Up to What Nature Can Teach

Development teams can use AskNature.org to solve design challenges based on what they can learn from nature at their project sites.

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Reflect on Progress

Measuring Our Impact
on People, Planet and Profit

At Brightworks, we measure our success by the impact we make on people, planet and profit. We want to share with you how, together, our work is making a difference.

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Relax a Little

Sustainability in 60 Seconds

"Explore the increasing real-world impact of digital games as an agent for social change."

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