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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Special GreenBuild Conference Issue

Greetings from the U.S. Green Building Council's GreenBuild Conference in Chicago. This special issue brings you news and developments announced here amid the 20,500 or so souls gathered at McCormick Place West.

As it seems to do every year, GreenBuild unleashes a flurry of new products, initiatives, and partnerships aimed at commercial and residential builders, developers, architects, and their myriad allied companies and organizations.

The excitement here is palpable. The green building industry has now reached maturity, with every major buildings-related company now thinking about, if not actively engaged in, green building products, projects, and practices. (The maturity of the industry is also reflected in the widely expressed sentiment that GreenBuild has gotten too big -- every plenary and breakout session turns people away due to lack of space -- and that the model may need to be reconsidered.

It's all good, of course, and just minor growing pains in the life of a movement that has become a very big market.

-- Joel Makower, Executive Editor

P.S.: As always, a full-color, graphic version of this newsletter is available online.

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GreenBuild Roundup Day Two: Codes, Carpets and Certificates
The second day of the 2007 GreenBuild Conference and Expo brought new green building codes from the city of Portland, Ore., new guidelines for certifying sustainable carpet products, and the release of the first of the new LEED for Homes certificates.

Aldo Leopold Legacy Center Wins FSC Award
The FSC will honored the Baraboo, Wis., project Thursday at the GreenBuild Conference and Expo. Seventy-eight percent of the wood used for the project was FSC-certified, the majority of which was harvested on site.

GreenBuild Roundup, Day One: Partnerships, Studies and Awards
Former President Bill Clinton kicked off GreenBuild's opening day by announcing projects with the city of Chicago and GE Real Estate. Two studies released at the event show green building is fueled by client demand and is driving up occupancy rates while GLI Systems, Rain Tube won the 2007 Sustainable Product Award.

Milliken, EnOcean Among BuildingGreen's Top 10 Products for 2007
For its annual list of the top 10 green building products, unveiled at the GreenBuild conference, BuildingGreen singled out products including formaldehyde-free particleboard, Cradle to Cradle-certified wall coverings, energy efficient dishwashers and ultra-low-flush urinals.

GreenBuild Day Zero: New Websites, New Tools, New Building Designs
One day prior to today's grand opening of GreenBuild 2007, the U.S. Green Building Council announced a redesigned home website and a million-dollar new education website, while CertainTeed released a reference guide for green products and Whirlpool unveiled a collection of 3D sustainable home designs.

What GreenBuild is Bringing to Chicago
World-class speakers, a multitude of panels on every topic imaginable, awards ceremonies and product announcements: here's what to expect at next week's Greenbuild 2007, the country's biggest gathering of green buildings professionals in a city that's striving to be the greenest of them all.

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Tools & Resources

Green Building Studio Carbon Neutral Design Tools
Green Building Studio V3.0 is an updated web service that is geared toward the designers of carbon neutral buildings. Its carbon neutral building check can predict the feasibility of a building reaching carbon neutral status using local grid emission data.

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FEATURED BOOK

The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
by Jason F. McLennan

Part Sustainable Design 101 and part manifesto, this book lays the groundwork and philosophical basis of the green architecture movement, helping people to understand and shape the ways that sustainable design will become the future of all design.

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FEATURED EVENT

Asian International Real Estate Expo and Conference Host: Conference and Expo Promotion, Inc. Date: Dec 6-10, 2007
Location: Manila, Philippines

The First Asian International Real Estate Expo & Conference (AIREEC) 2007 will bring to Asia real estate developers, practitioners, trade organizations, speakers, investors, professionals, government sectors and end-users, gathering nearly 10,000 participants and 400 corporations from 54 different countries.

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