—The Story of Stuff

—Is this the future? Fighting of Water Rights…

—Great Documentary - recommend highly!

—Hilarious Video - A must see (Pass it On too!)

— LEED V3 (2009) video - A must see - helps with the understanding of where LEED is going and where it came from. It is important to know why the USGBC chooses credit intents and allots points in the way they do. It enables supporters to be proactive in communicating the USGBC message.

— Seems like we should be buying organic cotton. . .

— In the president-elect’s weekly radio address, Barack Obama addressed the need for energy efficiency in his economic recovery plan. He specifically targets the need for efficiency in infrastructure and compares this reinvestment to the creation of the national interstate highway system of the 1950s and highlights the creation of jobs. See this and more in the video:

— Learn about some innovations in green building presented at this year’s Greenbuild conference in Boston:

— USGBC recently released eight short videos entitled 15 Years, 15 Stories. They highlight the progression of the last fifteen years of the USGBC and focus on the importance of people in the green building process.. They are definitely worth checking out! Watch the first one here:

— A series of thirteen videos highlights a family’s green prefab home in Mountain View, California. Learn about different flooring techniques, health benefits, the ability to walk places and a having a sense of place. Homeowners Ellen and Mark and interior designer Sally Kuchar discuss these things and others in these videos. They point out the beauty in green homes and contrast the common perception that environmentally friendly homes sacrifice this. Watch one of them here:

— A great video to watch and learn about LEED as well as the benefits of green building in the Bay Area, from the newly constructed Academy of Sciences to affordable housing:

— “Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.” Learn about this concept from Janine Benyus herself and about some of the ways nature is being mimicked in the design process: