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	<description>LEEDership in Sustainability</description>
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		<title>EBS Adds Two New Members</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2010/01/ebs-adds-two-new-memebers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Building Strategies is pleased to announce the addition of two members to our team.
Justin Moresco is a licensed professional engineer with 4+ years experience in the green building and construction industries. His engineering experience has focused on existing buildings, from working on LEED certifications to the seismic evaluation of dozens of structures. Before focusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency — More Profitable than Investing in Google</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2010/01/energy-efficiency-%e2%80%94-more-profitable-than-investing-in-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco and came out enthused and confused.
I was enthused about the progress the green buildingindustry is making. That over 14,000 people from all over the country came to learn about the new innovations in green building is huge for an industry, which in many ways, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DC&#8217;s Green Building Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2010/01/dcs-green-building-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2010/01/dcs-green-building-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was written and submitted by Chris Birk
D.C.’s Green Building Dilemma
By Chris Birk of  www.suretybonds.com/edu 
When it passed in 2006, Washington, D.C.’s Green Building Act was heralded as an innovative way to incorporate green efficiencies into private and public building projects.
But not everyone was thrilled, especially surety companies — the industry that issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEEDing the Way: What to Expect On the New LEED 3.0 Exam</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/12/leeding-the-way-what-to-expect-on-the-new-leed-30-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/12/leeding-the-way-what-to-expect-on-the-new-leed-30-exam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Will Clean Energy Legislation Affect Electricity Prices?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/11/how-will-clean-energy-legislation-affect-electricity-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/11/how-will-clean-energy-legislation-affect-electricity-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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As debate heats up around the proposals for clean energy legislation in Congress, one of the main points of contention is the amount of money it will cost.  More specifically, everyone wants to know how the average American household will be impacted by the respective energy bills in the House (Waxman-Markey’s American Clean Energy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency vs. Renewables: The Great Green Debate</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/10/energy-efficiency-vs-renewables-the-great-green-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/10/energy-efficiency-vs-renewables-the-great-green-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent surge in money going towards renewable energy research and implementation, many people are forgetting a key factor in reducing our impact on the environment: energy efficiency.
Utilizing renewable energy in your home or commercial building is great, don’t get me wrong, but before this expensive option is employed, you should first look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob Arlein&#8217;s article on Reuters</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/jacob-arleins-article-on-reuters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/jacob-arleins-article-on-reuters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 How the Stimulus Impacts Green Building 
Wed Sep 9, 2009 7:55pm ED
By Jacob Arlein 
I don&#8217;t know if it is Obama or Al Gore but the US government is starting to understand the need for sustainability. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama in February to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House LEED, Green,  WHAT!?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/white-house-leed-green-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/white-house-leed-green-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In another bold move by the president, he recently uttered the words LEED when referring to a Certification for the White House.  Is this even possible?  I mean I realize it is, but can we just take a step back for a minute and reflect on where we came from and what was happening in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Government Seems Keen to Go Green: How the Stimulus Bill helps Green Building.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/us-government-seems-keen-to-go-green-how-the-stimulus-bill-helps-green-building/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/us-government-seems-keen-to-go-green-how-the-stimulus-bill-helps-green-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ I don’t know if it is Obama or Al Gore but the US government is starting to understand the need for sustainability.  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama in February to stimulate the sagging US economy.  By injecting $690 billion dollars to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I determine if a material is green or not?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/how-can-i-determine-if-a-material-is-green-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ebsconsultants.net/2009/09/how-can-i-determine-if-a-material-is-green-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Environmental Building Strategies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest obstacle in the adoption of green materials is a lack of understanding of how to look at materials. Our old method of &#8220;price first, features second, appearance last&#8221; is short sighted and explains how we put ourselves in this environmental catastrophe.
The primary thing one must understand about green materials is to realize it [...]]]></description>
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