September 2016 Newsletter

 Welcome Back! 

I hope you've all had a great summer and you're ready to rock the rest of the year! I was able to get some hiking in last week - at Lassen Volcanic National Park - with my brothers Benny & Ted. Lo and behold, as we arrived at the Kohm Ya-Ma-Nee Visitor Center (pictured above), we discovered the first thrill of the trip: it's a LEED Platinum green building! Nice work, National Park Service. 

We can all expect to see some other great green buildings around here at our big Showcase on 9/22/16 at Boston Properties' 888 Boylston St in Boston. I hope to see you there.

Let us know about your summer. Send us a picture from nature and we'll generate a collection of inspiring images to remind each other of why we work so hard on improving building performance.

Thank you for being a part of this community of professionals committed to changing the world for the better. See you soon,

Grey Lee
Executive Director




 Join us on 9/22 - Hosted by Boston Properties 

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Thurs, 9/22: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
888 Boylston Street, Boston
Join us at the 2016 Green Building Showcase, with Platinum Sponsors Eversource and National Grid and many of your favorite green building people to celebrate exceptional green buildings conceived, designed, built & operated by our community of practitioners over the past year.

Connect with sponsors Boston Properties, ARUP, Elkus Manfredi, Turner Construction, Gerding Edlen, HDR, The Green Engineer, AHA Consulting Engineers, Menck Windows, View Glass, Finegold Alexander and many others for this fabulous mixer of talent and passion for green buildings!

Click here
 to learn more and to register!

Coming up

Tues, 9/13: 8:30am - 5:00pm
50 Milk Street
 
Join us for an in-depth course to prepare for the LEED AP exam. We will cover the ideology, structure, and certification process. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks throughout the day and hard-copy materials for attendees.
Click here to learn more and to register.
 
Designing Environmental
Advocacy Forum

Mon, 9/12: 8:30am - 10:30am
50 Milk Street

Connect with colleagues throughout the design professions to review recent legislative progress and setbacks, identify key leverage points across our network, and map out priorities for the coming legislative session.
 Contact us at advocacy@usgbcma.org for more information
Getting Ahead of 2017 Energy Codes

Tues, 9/27: 8:30am - 10:00am
50 Milk Street, Boston
 
 In this intense overview session, Chris Schaffner PE, LEED Fellow, will offer what you need to know about the new energy code. 
 
Click here to learn more and to register!



Wed, 9/14: 8:30am - 10:30am
50 Milk Street, Boston
 
Join us for an in-depth course to prepare for the WELL AP exam. We will cover the ideology, structure, and certification process. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks throughout the day, and hard-copy materials for attendees.
 
Click here to learn more and to register!
Sat, 9/17: 8:30am - 5:00pm
50 Milk Street 
Join us for another year of green buildings by bike tour.  Biking is one of the best ways to see the city in all its varietal wonder, and this tour is a unique opportunity to hear insights into recent sustainable building and development projects. 
Click here to learn more and to register.
Greenbuild LA - USGBC MA Accomodations


Mon, 10/3: 7:00am - Fri, 10/7 10:00pm

Need a place to stay during GreenBuild in L.A.? We have a house waiting for you. 

Click here to learn more and reserve your spot!
Also in September:

Connect with our friends at A Better City and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission for their important morning session at the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Symposium will mark a shift from planning to action in the citywide Climate Ready Boston initiative and will focus on technologies, policies and actions to prepare the City's buildings, businesses and districts for the future.

Click here to learn more and to register!


Thurs, 9/22: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
888 Boylston Street, Boston

Click here to learn more and to register! So good, it had to be here twice!

Presinar & Committees
PEER 101: Introduction to Sustainable Electricity and PEER
Wed., 9/21





Mon, 9/12: 8:30am - 5:00pm
50 Milk Street
 
We will be gathering to talk about best practices in the greening of affordable housing. Representatives from the
Cambridge Housing Authority will share what they are seeing and planning to do about sustainability in housing. Join us for a great conversation!
Click here to learn more and to register.
Coming in October


Register now for Greenbuild 2016 in LA! 

We will be hosting a New England-focused networking event to build excitement for next year's Greenbuild in Boston, while we are in LA this year. It's not too early to start thinking about it!

The USGBC MA Chapter has rented a big old house two blocks from Greenbuild in LA! Let us know if you want to take a room in the place. Contact celis@usgbcma.org 



Save the Date: October 26th!

The Healthy Materials Summit involves educational sessions on the selection of products and finishes that affirm the quality of life of occupants. We will be partnering with a team of architects to provide the content for the event. 

Topics will include: red list (harmful) chemicals, environmental product declarations, and others. Participants will have the ability to select sessions of interest from a list of options. Save the date! 

Wednesday, 10/26/16 8:30-12:30pm at Google in Cambridge




Stay tuned for upcoming updates!
Get in touch with our planning team, please email info@usgbcma.org. We welcome any communication relating to content or event support.

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