This Year Green Drinks Meet and Mingle, Last Year, ROAD TRIP!!

Heidi Van Korff a LEED certified Engineer, Designer and President of the firm, Sustainable Civil, took to the road in the middle of last year and travelled 9000 miles during a 4-month period on a “Sustainability Tour” taking her all over North America.

She is a “Green” mover and a shaker…

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Designing Communities for a Healthier Southwest Florida Conference Friday, April 1st 8:00 - 12:30 pm

Dr. Richard J. Jackson from U.C.L.A. to speak April 1st from 8:00am to 12:30 pm in Ft. Myers on the relationships between human well-being and community design.

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South Florida Chapter LEED Workshop offered Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Learn how to apply the LEED for Commercial Interiors rating system to a real project by walking through the phases of a typical project and the key decisions that project teams must make, including key stakeholder considerations.

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Green Jobs are where it’s at for the next decade and beyond…

When it comes to job prospects, green is beautiful. Building owners want to find ways to save money and take advantage of tax credits by maximizing efficiency in energy use. For new buildings, owners are increasingly trying to snag coveted LEED certification, an environmental stamp of approval. The government is behind it, too: in January, President Obama announced a $2.3 billion program aimed at creating thousands of "green jobs."

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Unique Opportunity to Visit the Myakka Earthship this Friday April 9th!!

Image by Dominic's pics via Flickr

Can you even imagine a sleek, ultra-modern home built from old tires rammed with dirt, aluminum cans, old glass and plastic bottles? A house that would have no utility bill, would be "off the grid" and require no outside source of electricity...

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Has LEED been LEADing?

Dr. Gerry Segal,  founding Associate Professor of Management at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Lutgert College of Business, passed along this book synopsis containing some perspectives that may be controversial.  In the interest of stimulating healthy debate and discourse, we invite reflective comment… commentary.  Let’s get everybody involved and get the conversation going.

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