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Northeast Building & Facilities Management Show

Coming to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center June 18-19

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We'll be at booth #642 and we invite Chapter members to attend - you'll get a free lunch!

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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!

Advocacy Committee Returns

Fresh Numbers, whenever you need them! 

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.

Green Schools Update

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.

Credential Maintenance?

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!