This is an excerpt of a recent article written by Jared Friedman for CleanTechies.com, a leading clean technology blog. It features an interview with Matt Macko, an author of the new LEED V3 EBOM exam.

LEEDing the Way: What to Expect On the New LEED 3.0 Exam
By Jared Friedman
I recently had the opportunity to speak with [...]

12. Research the USGBC website – ask around
The USGBC wants you to succeed – they happen to want you to be in compliance too. They are pushing the market in a new direction and by signing up you are agreeing that direction is a good one – you are advocating the same thing. Because [...]

What I can’t believe is how far we’ve come since this speech… Think about it.

So a couple things are on my mind this week. The main one is water however. To date this blog has focused quite a bit on energy, materials, and sustainability however we’ve lacked on the water subject.

Since Karolina let me on to this movie FLOW I’ve been newly recharged to change the world. [...]

In keeping with our philosophy of writing every other day we decided to skip a week… Wait that makes no sense - well true. But in our defense it was a week full of vacation time, powder skiing and a Holiday.
So the title Friedmans on my mind is reflective of the fact that [...]

This weekend I was driving in traffic on the Oakland toll Bridge reading Van Jones’s The Green Collar Economy and was blown away by his forward thinking and by my multi-tasking abilities. Although I was impressed with my ability not to crash I think it is more important that I share with you Van [...]

So I flipped on CNN this morning early as I usually do and was shocked that I hadn’t heard about the ice storm back there. Apparently Kentucky and Arkansas are badly hit by a winter storm that has left droves of power outages in its wake. Here is an article for you if [...]

So almost a month ago I wrote an article titled Top 100 Ways to Continue F*%#ing the Future. To be honest it got quite a bit of press and I have to say I’m somewhat proud.
I didn’t think I had the potential to generate that much conversation. But this blog and EBS’s presence [...]

I recently learned a few things that I was a little shaky on.
This article talks alot about one of those things.
That is the power of WHITE - and yes I mean the color.
For the majority of people out there we understand the ability of light colors. They reflect while dark colors absorb. [...]

I have something for you - a great article, a must read, and a great prelude to Tuesday’s festivities!

Top 10 Green Building Stories of 2008
Well we may not have gotten everything we asked for - As a country we certainly didn’t expect to be here on January 20th.
No one expected to see hundreds of thousands [...]