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Thursday, April 29, 2010

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

I’ve gotten really addicted to reading e-books now on my new iPad. When you download the Amazon.com Kindle app, you can then seamlessly download all content from these two great green building books, both still timely and relevant. Here are the links to Green Building A to Z and Choosing Green.

Posted by Jerry on 04/29/2010 at 10:53 AM

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Green Building Consultant Dodges Eyjafjallajökull’s Fury

Jerry spoke at Build Green CEE in Budapest on April 15th. The day before, he spoke to the first meeting of the Hungarian Green Building Council at Central European University in Budapest, an institution with an outstanding climate and energy researcher, Dr. Diana Uerge-Vorsatz, a physicist with a doctorate in energy studies from the University of California. The Build Green CEE brought together green building councils from around the region, including Hungary, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania, as well as guest speakers from green building councils in Germany, the U.S. and the U.K. The large crowd for Jerry’s opening keynote talk truly illustrated the hold that green building is getting in a relatively unknown (to US audiences) part of the world. This is an exciting time to be in the green building movement, and I’m privileged to be part of it.

Posted by Jerry on 04/28/2010 at 07:24 PM

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Keynoting Australia’s Green Cities 2010 Conference

You can email me to get a copy of the presentation. Basically, I pointed out that Architecture 2030 goals call for saving 80 percent of a building’s energy use compared with 2005 averages, but that most LEED certified projects are hitting about the 30 percent level, far below where we need to be to see a major reduction of carbon emissions from the building sector. I suggested that projects that don’t hit their predicted energy goals have their scores reduced to levels consistent with actual performance and, if they fall below minimum LEED performance standards, have their certification revoked. This would bring “truth in advertising” to LEED certification and lead design/construction teams to be more realistic about securing energy performance in new construction. My host Romilly Madew, CEO of the GBCA, emailed me later, saying: “the feedback from your session was fantastic; people talked about all the take-away’s they got from your talk.”

Posted by Jerry on 03/12/2010 at 12:57 PM

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Green Building Books Signings Next Week at Greenbuild in Phoenix

I’ll be signing Greening Existing Buildings at the McGraw-Hill booth at 10 am on Wednesday November 11th, on the show floor. On Thursday, November 12th, at 1:00 pm at the Conference Bookstore, I’ll be signing Green Building Trends: Europe, my new book for Island Press. Hope to see you there!

Posted by Jerry on 11/05/2009 at 05:36 PM

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