Welcome to Building My Green Life.
As the Director of Sustainability at SHP Leading Design, I have the opportunity to make good, sustainable choices in my professional life as well as my personal life. This blog is meant to be a means by which to capture those sustainable choices and even accomplishments so that others can (hopefully) learn from them as well.
Where Sustainability and Food Intersect Those of you who know me personally as well as through this blog probably ...
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Sustainability is Key at the Cincinnati Zoo The Cincinnati Zoo is striving to be the "greenest" zoo in America, and they're ...
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I hate car shopping. This can probably be traced back to the fact that I have very few real requirements for a car. Namely, it has to be reliable, fuel-efficient, inexpensive and preferably not a horrible color. Eight or so months ago, I finally traded in my 2003 Mazda Protege5 and bought a Mazda2. You ...
Bush Library Earns LEED Platinum
My husband and I have a lot in common, but typically not political views/allegiances. He served a stint as an advance team member for George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential campaign and consequently was invited to, and attended, yesterday’s dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at SMU. Political views aside, ...
USGBC Launches GBIG.org
USGBC recently launched what they are calling “GBIG“- The Green Building Information Gateway. GBIG is accessed by simply visiting GBIG.org and is touted to be a repository for data and sustainable buildings and their related strategies. GBIG currently has five sections: Activities, Buildings, Places, Strategies and Collections: Activities: The activities section allows you to view ...
GBCI revises Credential Maintenance Again
A few months ago, GBCI and USGBC published a new Credential Maintenance Program Guide which he can download by clicking here. The credential maintenance program for LEED credentials have been a frequently evolving process over the past nearly four years since its launch. The first incarnation of the program was widely regarded as exceptionally complex ...
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