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TOMORROW! Saturday, April 26, 2014 (Cambridge) - Earth Day Service Project with EPMA - Come on out to help us clean up a section of the Charles River Reservation. Click here for more details
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 (Boston) - Green Schools Committee meeting. We are deep in the planning and registering mode for the Green Apple Day of Service. Click here to sign up for the meeting
Monday, May 12, 2014 (Boston) - Residential Green Building Committee meeting. Click here to sign up
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 (Boston) Green Breakfast Club "Beyond LEED: Passive Design for a Sustainable Future" - with Yanel de Angel and Jordan Zimmerman. Click here to register
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 (Boston) Beyond Buildings: A Review of LEED for Neighborhood Development in Massachusetts. This program will look at sustainability beyond individual buildings to the district and neighborhood scale. How is the USGBC's LEED ND rating system being used as a tool for enhancing communities in Massachusetts? Click here for details
Friday, May 23, 2014 (Boston) LEED Green Associate One-Day Workshop w/ Chris Liston of CBRE - click here to register for this great crash-course
Thursday, May 29, 2014 (Hudson) Green Building Tour of Quinn Middle School. Also, our Green Schools Committee will meet directly following the tour & reception. Click here to register
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We keep writing up stories about things we're doing
by Grey Lee
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Become involved with a Committee!
To find out more about the committees and how to get connected, go to our website or send an email to info@usgbcma.org
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Help us accelerate change and further our mission to advocate, educate and promote sustainable development in Massachusetts.
Join as a member today!
Organizations that share our goal of a more sustainable built environment should consider becoming a USGBC national member or partner of USGBC MA.
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| "e" inc. Environmental Film Festival | | |
May 18th 2014,
throughout Boston
Come to a variety of amazing and insightful films through out Boston for this year's Environmental Film Festival produced by our partnering organization, "e" inc.
Films include: "Drill Baby Drill," "Growing Cities," and "A Brief History of the 5-cent Bag Tax"
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Northeast Building & Facilities Management Show
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Coming to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center June 18-19
Click here for more information
We'll be at booth #642 and we invite Chapter members to attend - you'll get a free lunch!
events@usgbcma.org for more info
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Happy Springtime! have to admit I am still on a high from Tuesday night's Earth Day Gala. It was great weather for 150 of us to enjoy the roof deck of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The views of the seaport and of the downtown were fabulous. I wrote a little blog entry about it, and more photos are at our facebook page.
What an amazing group of people - all committed to improving our environment and our society through our work on buildings.
The award winners are pictured on the blog and you can also read a bit about the projects and past year projects on our website.
Please come out to our Earth Day Service Project, organized by the EPMA, tomorrow (Saturday) morning 4/26 in Cambridge. The morning weather should be good for us to get dirty cleaning up a nice stretch of nature.
Are you tuning in to our social media discussions and notes? We hit 1800 members on LinkedIn and now I want to go for 500 on facebook! Like us right now, if you please. It's a great way to stay abreast of green building industry activity in MA. Thank you for reading these emails, too, the old-fashioned way.
Even as we mop-up after the Earth Day Gala, there is a lot more coming up: our LEED ND program in May, various webinars, the Green Breakfast Club, Networking Nights and more. I look forward to seeing you soon.
Thank you again for working for MORE GREEN BUILDINGS!
Grey Lee
Executive Director
USGBC MA Chapter
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Advocacy Committee Returns
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 sustainable communities
and associated issues.
Please let us know if you would like to connect with us to push forward with the green building agenda.
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Fresh Numbers, whenever you need them!
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The USGBC has just created a new resource for everyone involved in green building.
The "State Market Briefs" are the latest expression of the Green Building Information Gateway (GBIG) which houses all the LEED certification information of every certified building, and more.
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Green Schools Update
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By Steve Muzzy
April 30, 2014
Green Schools Committee meeting. Join us for our April meeting.
May 10, 2014
Boston Youth Climate Action Network (CAN) 2014 Summit will be held at MIT's Stata Center. The event is free - keynote speaker will be Rachel Gutter, Director of USGBC's Center for Green Schools.
May 29, 2014
Quinn Middle School Tour (Hudson, MA). The school was designed by OMR Architects and is anticipated to receive LEED Gold certification. The tour is being coordinated by USGBC MA's Central Mass Committee and is free and open to the public.
Congratulations to Boston Latin School (BLS) for receiving a 2014 Green Ribbon School Award from the Department of Education. BLS joins Acton-Boxborough, Berkshire School, Manchester-Essex, and Quincy High School as the only schools in MA to receive the honor.
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We've Got Webinars and All-Day Workshops
We have USGBC official webinars for in-person, group viewings:
Amherst on 5/6 at 7pm
Boston on 5/15 at 12pm
Amherst on 5/20 at 12pm
Boston on 5/21 at 4:30pm
Worcester on 5/22 at 6pm
AND - one big all-day LEED Green Associate Exam Prep course on 5/23 from 9am-6pm. Come out to study and then sign up for the exam before it changes to LEED v4!
You can read about our last all-day workshop here.
See you there, LEED people!
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Schools in MA now must
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Karl Brown of MSBA announcing the change
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| Welcome: Tsoi/Kobus & Associates | |
Congratulations and thank you to Blake Jackson for connecting the Chapter to Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge. We are excited to work with these leaders in green building who are now Bronze Sponsoring Partners.
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Beyond Buildings:
A Review of LEED ND in Massachusetts
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This exciting program will look at sustainability beyond individual buildings to the district and neighborhood scale. How is the USGBC's LEED ND rating system being used as a tool for enhancing communities in Massachusetts? How can our USGBC MA community of green building practitioners move beyond single building projects to entire neighborhoods and districts? |
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The USGBC Massachusetts Chapter is a non-profit organization serving the sustainable design community throughout the Commonwealth by providing a wide range of green building education, networking and advocacy services. 
