Educational sessions to provide homeowners and industry professionals with green remodeling solutions

There are 125 million single family homes in the United States, with only one to two million added each year, remodeling existing homes is the area with the largest potential impact for increasing energy efficiency and “going green.” The Michigan Association of Home Builders and Green Built™ Michigan’s Great Lakes Green 2008 conference/exhibition August 22-23, 2008 at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, will provide both industry professionals and the public with educational sessions focused on green home remodeling.

“Homeowners that choose to remodel green can lower their energy consumption by 30 to 50 percent,” says Rich Kogelschatz, president of Heartland Builders LLC and chair of Great Lakes Green 2008. “By retrofitting an existing home with green techniques and products, homeowners will save money on energy bills and conserve our natural resources.” Read more »

ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — Warren Wilson College, the only college or university in North Carolina with a LEED Gold Certified Building, now has a second Gold building on its campus.

The Village South residence hall, part of a two-building, 80-bed community that opened in August 2006, becomes the first dormitory in the state to achieve LEED certification. LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council that sets standards for the “design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.”

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Point Reyes and San Francisco, June 15-27, 2008

San Francisco, Calif., March 3, 2008–The Office of Special Programs at
California College of the Arts (CCA) has announced the launch of the Summer
Institute in Sustainable Design. This two-week immersion program enables
practicing professionals in design and other disciplines to come together to
learn about and discuss cutting-edge green strategies and their applications
in the realm of design. The first program in what will be an annual series takes
place June 15-27, 2008, in Point Reyes and San Francisco. Details are
available at www.cca.edu/sustainable.

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