Reminder: UMass Amherst Lecture Series
Tweet
NESEA member public presentations
Tweet If you visited some residences at Green Buildings Open House this past weekend and were looking for some more information or next steps, you may want to check out NESEA member Rachel White’s (of Greener Every Day) talk at the Chelmsford Public Library. Her talk is part of a two part series “Bringing Your [...]
Executive Director’s Report — NESEA Annual Meeting, Sept. 24, 2011
Finally, as I’ll share with you later in my remarks, one of NESEA’s key initiatives for 2012 will involve “expanding the choir” – in other words, dramatically increasing the number of people we reach in order to serve our mission, which is to advance the adoption of sustainable energy solutions in the built environment. As an organization with deep roots in Red Sox territory, one of the most logical ways for us to do that is to expand our geographic reach into the southern part of our 10-state region, starting with New York City. And so tonight I am delighted to call myself a Yankees fan, and even more delighted to be here in NYC.
Great News from the Membership!
NESEA member collaborative efforts on building certification success.
Annual Meeting 2011
You’re invited to this year’s Annual Meeting on September 24, 2011 in Manhattan, NYC, NY from 5pm to 9pm. Read more about our speaker!
Report from our traveling quartet from Saxony and Upper Austria
Tom Hartman, Chris Benedict, Andy Shapiro, and I are in the midst of a 2-week tour of high performance buildings in Saxony and Upper Austria. We’ll be presenting our findings during three sessions at Building Energy. Here’s a very quick taste of some of the things we’ve seen.
Q & A with Kate Goldstein, NESEA member and Emerging Professional
Today we’re talking to Kate Goldstein, a young NESEA member from Providence, RI, and a PhD candidate at MIT, about how she came to be involved with the organization and what NESEA has meant to her professionally and personally. This is part one of a two part conversation with Kate (pictured, right). In part two, she’ll talk about her efforts on behalf of Emerging Professionals at the BuildingEnergy Conference.
As always, we hope these Q & As will provide you with some insights about what you can expect from this year’s conference and the people who are making it happen.
Review of Green Building Product Certifications: Getting What You Need
Like the main protagonist in the movie “Six Degrees of Separation” – where making connections is key in order to advance oneself – many product manufacturers today are making claims of greater connectedness to being green than is warranted. The definition of ‘green’ is constantly changing, and when worded in just the right way, can translate into greater profits for business and big problems for consumers. Are we to settle for a confusing variety of certifications that subtly offer false shades of green at the expense of our environment?
Next Steps: If You Build, Build to Net Zero
NESEA’s architects and energy consultants are working hard to make net zero energy a standard component of new home design.
Green Building Materials Market to Jump to $571B by 2013
A recent earth2tech blog post discussed a report published this week by NextGen Research entitled, “Green Building Materials: Cement, Insulation and Wood Products Help Engineer a Greener World.”
According to earth2tech, the report estimates that, “the global green building materials market will grow about 5 percent per year to reach $571 billion by 2013, up from about $455 billion last year…”
