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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

YUDELSON ELECTED TO NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING COMMITTEE

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October 16, 2006 Jerry Yudelson, 520-207-9759

YUDELSON ELECTED TO NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING COMMITTEE

TUCSON, Arizona - October 16 - Yudelson Associates, a leading green building consulting firm, announced today that its founder and principal, Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED AP, has been elected to the national “core committee” for the LEED for New Construction rating system, an arm of the U.S. Green Building Council. This committee is charged with developing new versions of the nationally recognized LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building assessment system and overseeing the operations of current versions.

Yudelson is a former Board Member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a national nonprofit with more than 6,300 corporate and institutional members. He also serves on the national core committee for a companion standard, LEED for Core and Shell development, and is the only person in the country elected to serve on both bodies. He has trained nearly 3,000 people in the LEED standard since 2001, when he was selected as one of the ten original LEED national faculty members.

“LEED for New Construction is the de facto national commercial green building standard,” said Yudelson. “It is incredibly important in transitioning the built environment to one that is more energy and resource-efficient and healthier. The LEED standard has been used in nearly 5,000 building projects since 2001. Continuing to evolve this standard to incorporate new approaches to building design and technology is the work of the core committee, and I’m pleased to be part of it.”

Yudelson Associates, Tucson, AZ, www.greenbuildconsult.com, is a newly formed company dedicated to “growing the business of green building” and facilitating sustainability initiatives. The founder, Jerry Yudelson, is a leading national authority on green buildings and corporate sustainability, with three books on green marketing and more than three dozen articles to his credit in the past three years. He is the senior editor of the web site, www.igreenbuild.com, and on the editorial board of two major national trade and professional magazines. Yudelson was honored in 2004 as “Green Building Advocate of the Year” by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, an electric utility consortium based in Portland, Oregon.

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On, Wisconsin!

In Madison, Wisconsin, today, Jerry talked with providers of the Wisconsin Green Built Home assessment program, a third-party certification of home energy efficiency. About 30% of new homes built in Madison are now certified, but the number seems to have peaked at that percentage. The program estimates that only 2% of homes in other parts of the state are Green Built certified. This is in a very cold state, where winter temperatures of zero Fahrenheit and below are not uncommon. (Remember all those December NFL playoff games in Green Bay on frozen fields?) It seems hard for most green building certification programs to crack the 30% barrier, and to reach that number is common only in a few places, such as Austin, Tucson and Portland, that I know of.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

NEW WHITE PAPER FOR CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY

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October 11, 2006

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Jerry Yudelson, 520.207.9759

TUCSON, Arizona - October 11 - Yudelson Associates, a leading green building consulting firm, released today a White Paper for the campus sustainability movement, “The GIST of Campus Sustainability - Gain Impact. Save Time.” Co-authored by principal Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED AP and Senior Associate Tom Buckholtz, PhD, the white paper presents an effective method for organizing sustainability efforts at colleges and universities nationwide.

Yudelson is a founding Board Member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), the largest national umbrella organization for faculty, students, administrators, staff and facilities professionals. Started in January of 2006, AASHE has more than 160 university members, as of October 2006. The Association’s first annual conference, held in Tempe, AZ, last week, drew more than 650 registrants, including more than 200 students.

“The GIST Toolkit (PDF) is a great system for organizing your work to achieve high level results,” said Yudelson. “By focusing on outcomes rather than inputs (programs, budgets, staffing, etc.), the GIST method shifts the focus first to setting goals, building coalitions and other foundational activities, then to results. It is useful not only for campuses but for any company or public agency that has sustainability at the forefront of its mission.”

Yudelson Associates, Tucson, AZ, www.greenbuildconsult.com, was formed in 2006 to “grow the business of green building” and facilitating sustainability initiatives. The founder, Jerry Yudelson, is a leading national authority on green buildings and corporate sustainability, with three books on green marketing and more than three dozen articles to his credit in the past three years. He is the senior editor of the web site, www.igreenbuild.com, and on the editorial board of two major national trade and professional magazines. Buckholtz is a former senior official in the first Bush Administration who has spent the last 20 years leading change initiatives at large organizations, in business, industry and government.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Educated Incapacity?

My article, Educated Incapacity?, for the October 16th issue of IGreenBuild newsletter discusses whether architects, engineers and contractors really have the “right stuff” to bring about a revolution in energy efficiency of buildings, to achieve 50% improvements in current building energy use for new and remodeled buildings by 2010. My conclusion is that there is a mammoth education and training requirement, along with significant changes in how buildings are designed and delivered, to meet this important goal.

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