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Jerry Yudelson’s Green Building Books Now Available As E-books from Amazon.com

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Two of my seminal green building books, Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building (2007) and Choosing Green: The Homebuyer’s Guide to Good Green Homes

, are now available as downloadable e-books for only $9.99 from Amazon.com

Jerry Yudelson featured in Ecolibrium Magazine

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Green building consultant Jerry Yudelson gives this interview about high-performance buildings to EcoLibrium, Australia’s leading magazine for building engineers, based on his presentation, “If it doesn’t perform, It can’t be green” to Australia’s Green Cities 2010 conference in Melbourne in February.
Download the article (PDF 1MB)

Sustainability Management, Confessions of a Sustainability Consultant

Thursday, April 29, 2010

We’ve been engaged for the past three years in corporate sustainability consulting and have learned a few lessons in that time. Bottom line, there has to be a strong C-Suite push for sustainable operations, and a strong business case must be articulated that engages corporate managers. Life in any company is very busy and sustainability considerations have to fight for their place on the desktop and in the daily priorities of managers. Our sustainability white paper tells more.

Green Building Consultant Dodges Eyjafjallajökull’s Fury

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

After delivering the opening keynote to 200 people at Build Green CEE, the 2nd conference of the Central and Eastern European green building councils two weeks ago in Budapest, Hungary, green building speaker Jerry Yudelson just made it back to the U.S., barely six hours before all of France’s airports closed down.