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Learning from Australia’s Continuing Drought
Tuesday, June 29, 2010Areas of urban Australia have reduced per capita daily water use to as low as 34 gallons (130 liters). By comparison the average per capita water use in California is 135 gallons per day, with a U.S. average of 150 gallons. Australia’s current multiyear drought has impressed a “culture of conservation” on the public.
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I’m in Stuttgart for German Sustainable Building Council annual conference
Monday, June 21, 2010In a continuing effort to stay updated on the progress of green building in Germany, Jerry is attending the annual conference of the German Sustainable Building Council in Stuttgart, 22-23 June. For a good background, see Jerry’s book, Green Building Trends: Europe, highlighted elsewhere on this website.
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What’s Your Water IQ?
Thursday, June 10, 2010I’ve crafted a home water audit quiz for you to test your “Water IQ”. You can create your own score and then use the audit to plan measures to reduce your household water consumption. My personal score is 41/50. Hope you enjoy it, and please let me know how you rate yourself!
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Green Building Growing Rapidly on Campuses
Thursday, June 03, 2010New Yudelson Associates white paper shows that more than 600 green buildings have been LEED certified on America’s college and university campuses and more than 3000 projects are registered for LEED certification, about 15 percent of the total LEED project registrations, as of the end of 2009.
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Jerry Yudelson’s Green Building Books Now Available As E-books from Amazon.com
Thursday, April 29, 2010Two 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
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Jerry Yudelson featured in Ecolibrium Magazine
Thursday, April 29, 2010Green 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.
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Sustainability Management, Confessions of a Sustainability Consultant
Thursday, April 29, 2010We’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.
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Green Building Consultant Dodges Eyjafjallajökull’s Fury
Wednesday, April 28, 2010After 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.
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Going Green at Home by Saving Water
Monday, March 15, 2010Having just completed the manuscript for my new book, Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis, I was determined to put my own house in order, so to speak, with a renewed focus on water conservation and water efficiency in 2010. So I engaged The Arizona Green Plumbers to do a comprehensive water audit and help me with a water conservation program. This is something you might want to check out if you live in the greater Phoenix or metro Tucson areas or anywhere in between.
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Keynoting Australia’s Green Cities 2010 Conference
Friday, March 12, 2010Last month, I was invited again to keynote Green Cities 2010 in Melbourne by the Property Council of Australia and the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). My presentation, “If it doesn’t perform, it can’t be green,” was aimed at creating a sense of urgency in green building projects to aim for high energy savings targets (and to hit them).
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Australian Efficient Building Scheme Allows Buildings to Trade Carbon Reductions
Monday, December 21, 2009A new proposal from global real estate titan Lend Lease and WSP’s Lincolne Scott engineers shows the way for building energy retrofits and upgrades to create carbon reductions that can be traded. Called the “Efficient Building Scheme.” This is a new growth area for green building.
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Green Building Spurs Construction Waste Recycling
Monday, December 21, 2009New McGraw-Hill report documents the impact of LEED and green building standards on increasing the rate of construction waste recycling.
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LEED Certification Challenges and Approaches: Chapter 10 of Greening Existing Buildings
Monday, November 09, 2009There are three keys to a successful LEED-EBOM project:
1.Getting organizational commitment to the process and managing the changes in the organization required for a successful project, such as changing people’s recycling behavior
2.Performing the required upgrades to building or facility operations, including adopting the LEED-required policies
3.Managing the LEED-certification process itself, including collecting all required documentation from the many project participants
Green Building Books Signings Next Week at Greenbuild in Phoenix
Thursday, November 05, 2009Jerry Yudelson will be signing his two latest books on green buildings at the Greenbuild conference next week in Phoenix.
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New Water Technologies for Green Buildings
Wednesday, November 04, 2009Yudelson Associates’ latest report, “New Water Technologies for Mechanical Contractors,” highlights changes in water conservation practices that are creating unprecedented opportunities to reduce water use in cities by 305 or more.
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