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.
Chevy Volt Test Drive Last week at SXSW Interactive Conference my husband, Drew, had the opportunity to test ...
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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 ...
More Information...Size Does Matter in Sustainability
I just got done reading a short article on Inhabitat that described the new “home” (read mega-mansion) being built by Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. Read the article here. This little piece of the American Dream is 22,000 square feet for the couple and their son and appears, from pictures, to more closely resemble a ...
GBCI Releases LEED Submittal Tips
At the very end of last year (December 23, to be exact), GBCI quietly added a series of “Submittal Tip Sheets” to the Resources section of their website (here). These tip sheets were written by GBCI reviewers for most of the common rating systems and are meant to be sort of helpful reminders for a ...
USGBC Statistics
I just received my “Happy Holidays from USGBC” email. The note contained some interesting statistics and facts about what the USGBC views as accomplishments of the past year. I found many of these items interesting, so I thought I would share them, directly from the email, for those of you who are not on their ...
Sustainable Packaging?!
A few weeks ago, I received the latest set of LEED certificates for one of our newly certified schools. I was more than a little dismayed at all the packaging that accompanied these seemingly easy to ship certificates. A set of ten certificates was literally mailed within three nesting cardboard boxes (as pictured above). Unbelievable! ...
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