Ian, Did you send this twice?

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To: Green Building Alliance NE
Cc: Michelle Salisbury
Subject: [gba-ne] New Govt Buildings in MA?


Does anyone know of any recently constructed, public-sector office buildings
in MA that are energy efficient?  If so, I would appreciate your passing on
the info.  The reason I ask is that I am working with EPA to identify
public-sector office buildings for EPA's ENERGY STAR Label for Buildings.
Ultimately, we want to run the office building's utility data through an
on-line "tool" to see how its energy performance rates against similar
buildings across the country.  If the building scores well, it will qualify
for the ENERGY STAR Label for Buildings.  Many thanks, Ian

Ian L. Todreas, Associate
The Cadmus Group, Inc.
135 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA  02452
781-434-2522 tel.
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Does anyone know of any recently constructed, public-sector office buildings
in MA that are energy efficient?  If so, I would appreciate your passing on
the info.  The reason I ask is that I am working with EPA to identify
public-sector office buildings for EPA's ENERGY STAR Label for Buildings.
Ultimately, we want to run the office building's utility data through an
on-line "tool" to see how its energy performance rates against similar
buildings across the country.  If the building scores well, it will qualify
for the ENERGY STAR Label for Buildings.  Many thanks, Ian

Ian L. Todreas, Associate
The Cadmus Group, Inc.
135 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA  02452
781-434-2522 tel.
781-434-2600 fax
itodreas@...

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Architects for Social Responsibility
Topic: Tufts Climate Change Initiative
Speaker: Sarah Creighton

Tuesday, February 1, 2000
6:00-6:30PM networking, light refreshments
6:30-8:00PM presentation, discussion

Tufts university has embarked on an ambitious program to meet the Kyoto
protocal to reduce global greenhouse emmissions 10% below 1990 levels by
2010. She will talk about early victories and challenges in this ambitious
program as well as her still remaining challenge to draft sustainable
design guidelines for state buildings for DCAM, hopefully with some
assistance from ASR.

Please RSVP 617-951-1433 x227 so we can order enough pizza

Co-chairs: Courtney Miller AIA 781-646-6165 & Marilyn Phelan AIA
617-451-6990 x304

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Subject: Tufts Climate Change Initiative

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Thank you for your interest in the Founding Meeting of the World Green Building Council that took place November 12^th in San Francisco. The meeting was a success by all accounts. Representatives from Australia, Japan, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States were present. Formally established Green Building Councils now exist in the U.S, Japan, Spain and Korea.

We have heard some great feedback and are encouraged by everyone’s enthusiasm. There are many opportunities for every country affiliate and it is our hope that this organization will be a dynamic network for everyone involved.

The next meeting of the WGBC is scheduled for late March 2000 in Paris, France in conjunction with C.I.B. More information will be sent to you in the upcoming weeks. We encourage you to attend and spread the word to other interested parties. In addition, there are immediate plans to launch a WGBC website, www.WorldGBC.org. The site will be a place to share information about existing green building councils and how they got started as well as provide increased exposure for the organization. There will be a form to fill out and submit for those countries interested in WGBC membership we will notify you by email when the site is live.

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At 08:34 PM 12/17/1999 -0500, you wrote:

Let me know more about the World Green Building Council,
mentioned in sustainablebusiness.com   thanks

Michelle

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Hello all:

I have just received a copy of the draft guidelines for USGBC Loacl
Chapter Formation.

I have posted them for viewing on my website at:

http://www.greenengineer.com/USGBC.htm

These guidelines may help focus the direction of our group(s).

Chris Schaffner

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Hi All,

See you tomorrow at CLF. Just wanted to inform you of some recent events.

While speaking at the Mass Housing Investment Corp last week at Sarah James
invitation, I met
Chris Schaffner, an engineer working for Vanderweil Engineers  who are
incidentally working on the Boston Convention Center. It was very
encouraging to find that he was on the same wavelength about the importance
of implementing green building practices and invited me to attend his
"green roundtable" luncheon at Cambridge Seven Associates, Thursday of last
week. As it turned out this group (primarily a networking group) orgainzed
by Barbra Batshalom, was moving toward the idea of becoming a local chapter
of the US Green Building Council. And they had invited Richard Kennelly to
speak. Ross Donald and Stella Tarney attended the meeting as well.

Richard described the mission of CLF and their current efforts to promote
high performance buildings practices.
We also talked about drivers for progress in getting new building standards
adopted and implemented by the state and private developers - peer
pressure, behavior modification, etc.

As you can imagine, as a co-chair of Architects for Social Responsibility
at the BSA where we have been focusing on sustainability in the built
environment for many years, it was encouraging to see other groups forming
to move this agenda forward.

It seemed that they were doing a great job of pulling together a new crop
of young architects, engineers, and marketing people who were working in
large firms interested in advancing the cause, something that ASR has been
a little remiss in addressing - getting the word out to the larger firms
who might have the resources and additional staff to assist with
galvanizing more interest in sustainability.

We'll see if Barbara and Chris want to somehow consolidate their efforts
with those of ASR. I like their enthusiasm and their meeting time  - during
lunch. However, ASR's evening schedule ususally allows speakers to get into
more depth.

Which leaves the subject of tomorrow's meeting. Sarah Creighton will be
attending. She has been heading up the Tufts Climate Change Initiative, a
very inportant demonstration of how institutions can take direct
responsibility for the the global climate by changing the way they build
and renovate buildings. She has had some early successes and challenges
which I hope she'll share with us.

Some agenda thoughts:

1) Concensus that we need another non-profit
2) What will it be doing? - educate, lobby both the private and public
sectors - legislators & developers?
		 Educate architects - hold workshops to inform on latest
best practices?
3) How do we move forward? Can we throw this out to the entire
enviroenmental community to say, hey, we're doing this and want this to be
a useful tool for the entire community/ get their assistance in the funding
- Boston's green building effort
4) First steps - name for group, business plan, naming officers
5) How to approach funders - start the pitch around town
6) Once new guidelines are adopted at the state/ city, what then?

That's about it,

Courtney Miller

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Tonight's BASEA Forum Postponed due to snow.
Rescheduled for Thursday evening January 27, 2000
See forum details at  www.basea.org

The group might strive for common ground, position, and timeliness through
just such a naming exercise, that is, this process of brainstorming
around suggested key words:  i.e. building, environment, sustainable,
design, architecture, eco-, all of which are more or less content loaded.

"Green" also connotes inexperience, naive, idealistic, virginal,
youthful, etc.

Another set of key words might be considered to indicate scope and scale:
i.e. regional, local, world, Northeast, New England, Boston area, etc.

And there's yet another column of words to pick from re: the form of the
organization:  council, association, collaborative, task force, steering
committee, action network, etc.

There are other groups and programs littering the landscape with their
brand names:  Green Building Council, Green Building Alliance,
clean Green Climate Change Network Initiative, and so on...

Let the Listing begin!

Yours truly,
Ross

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 rkennelly@... wrote:

> I agree with Courtney.  On the one hand, using "green" in the name can suggest
a
> (future) association with the US Green Building Council, which might have
> advantages.  But I think we should consider a name that doesn't have "green"
in
> it if only because I've often found people are quick to dismiss ideas that
hold
> themselves out as "green" or "environmental" or "ecology"-oriented.  Also,
> there's more to sustainable design than just green-ness -- such as employee
> productivity.
>
> Some have suggested the "high performance" building moniker -- which works, as
> in New York's guidelines, but no name for our group leaps out at me with "high
> performance" in it ("High Performance Building Council"??).
>
> Maybe "sustainable" is the word to work with -- Sustainable Design Alliance?
> Council for a Sustainable New England??
>
> We can discuss next week.  Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
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> We need a title for our group. Action Network for Green Buildings,or
> something like this, so that we can make sure that the Green Building
> Alliance in Pittsburgh is not alarmed by any unofficial affiliation.
>
> Anyone have some good title ideas?
>
> Green Buildings Initiative, etc.
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> Courtney
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I agree with Courtney.  On the one hand, using "green" in the name can suggest a
(future) association with the US Green Building Council, which might have
advantages.  But I think we should consider a name that doesn't have "green" in
it if only because I've often found people are quick to dismiss ideas that hold
themselves out as "green" or "environmental" or "ecology"-oriented.  Also,
there's more to sustainable design than just green-ness -- such as employee
productivity.

Some have suggested the "high performance" building moniker -- which works, as
in New York's guidelines, but no name for our group leaps out at me with "high
performance" in it ("High Performance Building Council"??).

Maybe "sustainable" is the word to work with -- Sustainable Design Alliance?
Council for a Sustainable New England??

We can discuss next week.  Thanks,

Richard


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We need a title for our group. Action Network for Green Buildings,or
something like this, so that we can make sure that the Green Building
Alliance in Pittsburgh is not alarmed by any unofficial affiliation.

Anyone have some good title ideas?

Green Buildings Initiative, etc.

Cheers,

Courtney



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We need a title for our group. Action Network for Green Buildings,or
something like this, so that we can make sure that the Green Building
Alliance in Pittsburgh is not alarmed by any unofficial affiliation.

Anyone have some good title ideas?

Green Buildings Initiative, etc.

Cheers,

Courtney

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1. Green Roundtable Meeting - Richard Kennelly
2. Boston Area Solar Energy Association (BASEA) - Henry
3.  New Group in Town - Green Building Alliance Northeast

1. Green Roundtable Meeting - Richard Kennelly
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Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:00pm

Cambridge Seven Associates
1050 Mass. Ave
617.492.7000

AGENDA:
business as usual....plus....
a special presentation by:

Richard Kennelly, Esq. of the
Conservation Law Foundation

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I presume everyone has probably heard about this by now, but just in case
you didn't, New York will be providing tax breaks for "green" buildings
starting next year.  Massachusetts too could probably stand to benefit from
some advocacy in this direction.

ALBANY, New York, January 11, 2000 (ENS) - New York Governor George
Pataki announced a new program today to offer financial incentives to
developers that use environmentally sound materials and practices to
construct and renovate buildings. The initiative would provide up to $25
million in tax breaks over the next several years for using technologies
that reduce pollution and save energy and materials. Pataki's plan is
part of his fiscal year 2001 budget proposal. The program would make New
York a national leader in promoting environmentally friendly building
technologies. The governor said the measure would promote improved
environmental standards, increase energy efficiency, and create
awareness of new technologies that can improve the quality of life of
those living in environmentally friendly buildings.

"In every measurable way, New York's environment is getting better -
cleaner, safer, more accessible, and better protected for future
generations to enjoy," said Pataki in his State of the State address.
"We are on the right track, but we can do more. And we will." The Green
Buildings Tax Credit would encourage the construction and rehabilitation
of environmentally sound buildings by providing a credit for the
development of "green buildings." Only buildings larger than 20,000
square feet would qualify for the tax breaks. Pataki cited a proposed 25
story residential building slated for Battery Park City in Lower
Manhattan as an example of buildings that could benefit from the new
measure. The building's planners have proposed using energy saving
lights and windows, and paints and carpeting that emit no hazardous
fumes. The project includes "high environmental standards that put New
York State and Battery Park City solidly in the green," Pataki said. The
new credit would become effective January 1, 2001.

straight to the source:  New York Times, Andrew Revkin, 01.11.00
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-pataki-green.html

Ian,

Way beyond the call of duty. Thank you for helping out. I just spoke to
Sarah Creighton who's been working on the Tufts Climate Change Initiative
and may give us some very valuable feedback on the best way to approach the
state and the kind of role we might play. She'll be attending the meeting.
Just gave a talk for Sarah James - "Sustainable Roundtable" luncheon
seminar series speaking about the synergies of comprehensive sustainable
design with
conservation and solar technologies working hand in hand.

See you on the 19th,

Courtney Miller

Dear Colleagues,

I hope everyone had a nice Y2K transition.  My colleague Michelle has been
researching diligently to complete the survey I articulated in an e-mail
back in mid December.  The attachment is a preliminary cut; I thought
passing it around now might save time and help shape the agenda for our next
meeting.

Here are some noteworthy findings:

1. MISSION AND POTENTIAL MODELS: We found 49 organizations who promote green
building practices:
- 19 organizations have promoting green building practices and sustainable
design as their primary focus; 13 organizations promote green building
practices as one of many programs.  The spreadsheet provides basic contact
information, organizational mission, and other bits of information.
- 17 remaining are informational resources and don't have "programs" per se.
Only web sites are given for these.  We may want to dig up more information
on them later.

2. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE: Most of the organizations are non-profits; the
rest are either funded by the government or educational institutions.

3. LOCALE: Most of the organizations are clustered on the West Coast or
around DC.

4. GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: About half of the 19 organizations who work on
advancing green buildings as their main mission work nationally, with the US
Green Building Council, the Green Building Alliance, and the Energy
Efficient Building Association being the most prominent.  The others tend to
have a regional focus, with the the City of Austin's Green Building Program
and the Green Builder Program of Colorado being the most prominent.

5.  AUDIENCE SERVED AND MESSAGE : A majority of these organizations are
involved in educating the public and/or building professionals about
sustainable development and constructing affordable, sustainable buildings.

Hope this is helpful.  See you all next week.

Ian

Ian L. Todreas, Associate
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135 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA  02452
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Hi Stella,

You asked about getting connected to ENN's live chat feature.

You have to click on their URL: chat.enn.com/
at http://chat.enn.com/

If http://chat.enn.com/ is not a live link for you (I use
Netscape/messenger) then you may have to go into your browser and toggle
"On" some of the sub routines to make your e-mail web integrated.  You may
have to fire up the audio programs - most them are free, if they are not
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Good luck!

Yours truly,
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of Modesto.

RULING MAKES POLLUTERS PAY FOR CLEANUP FROM LEAKY UNDERGROUND FUEL TANKS
In a ruling that could dramatically speed cleanup of land
contaminated by leaking underground petroleum tanks, a federal
appeals court has determined property owners can sue the
polluters.

ALASKA COURT DECIDES TO TRY SEATTLE FIRM IN SALMON-DUMPING CASE
A salmon-dumping case sure to be closely tracked by the
Alaska seafood industry will go to trial in May, court officials
decided Jan. 5.

For full stories, go to http://www.enn.com/worldwire/index.asp


ENN MULTIMEDIA

CONSERVATION INSPIRATION
British wildlife artist David Shepherd was inspired by his
trips to Asia and Africa.  As a result, he began a conservation
project that has helped educate the public and support overseas
governments.  Find out more about this dedicated and talented
artist in this report.
EcoWatch/London Radio Service (5:12) 

http://www.enn.com/enn-multimedia-archive/2000/01/01102000/lrs_8930.asp

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THE GREEN WEB
Shopping online has many environmental benefits.  Between
space efficiency, lower pollution levels and other factors,
the Internet may prove to be an invaluably 'green' tool. Great Lakes Radio
Consortium (0:55)

http://www.enn.com/enn-multimedia-archive/2000/01/01102000/glrc_8933.asp

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THE ENVIRONMENT SHOW
On this week's program: Is e-shopping environmentally friendly?;
a 'green' bottled water company; promise of a milder winter;
how strawberries are grown and picked; a discussion about
wood chip mills; and recreating a forest from 40 million
years ago. (54:01)

http://www.enn.com/enn-multimedia-archive/2000/01/01102000/esho_8929.asp

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RECLAIMING THE LAND
Open, green spaces are disappearing with the increased prevalence
of asphalt and sod.  Listen to this report to find out what
is being done to protect farmlands and other open areas.
Earthwatch Radio (2:03) 

http://www.enn.com/enn-multimedia-archive/2000/01/01102000/eart_8932.asp


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How can one get to Bill McD to chat with him on Monday?

Stella Tarnay

Jan. 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Come chat with visionary architect
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There're other good articles, too:

DESPERATELY SEEKING WALDEN: NATURALIST RODERICK NASH
"Are we too powerful for our own good?" wonders Roderick
Nash, a naturalist with a vision in the tradition of Henry
David Thoreau. "Growth was good, but it went on too long.
Bigger is not better if the system is destroyed." Nash's
ideal world is a civilization of populated islands surrounded
by wilderness.
http://www.enn.com/features/2000/01/01062000/nash_8116.asp

COMPUTER MODEL SHEDS LIGHT ON AFRICAN ELECTRICITY TRADE
Researchers at the State Utility Forecasting Group of Purdue
University have developed a computer model that simulates
electricity trade among the 12 member nations of the South
African Power Pool, allowing the group to share electricity
with greater efficiency. "The whole idea is to present SAPP
with savings associated with free trade," said Tom Sparrow,
a professor of industrial engineering at Purdue. "Countries
that trade together stay together."
http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/01/01062000/energy_8805.asp

GORE, BRADLEY DISAGREE ON LOGGING LIMIT
Democratic presidential rivals Bill Bradley and Al Gore disagreed
Wednesday night over President Clinton's executive order
to unilaterally limit logging in national forests.

COMPETITION MAY RESULT IN LESS-RELIABLE ELECTRICITY
Electric providers may have avoided the Y2K bug, but the
industry's rush toward competition is making America's power
system less reliable, an Energy Department task force said Wednesday.

FERTILIZER REPORTED DEADLY TO FROGS
Fertilizer levels the Environmental Protection Agency says
are safe for human drinking water can kill some species of
frogs and toads, according to a new study.

RECYCLING COMPANY BRINGS JOBS TO RHODE ISLAND
CleanScape aims to show businesses how to recycle the right
way, but that's only part of its mission.

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> Here's a collection of green organizations in the Northeast U.S. from
> the Environmental Research Foundation, best known, perhaps, for Rachel's
> Environment and Health Weekly
>
http://www.rachel.org/orgList/orgResults.cfm?region=Northeast&country_ID=70&stat\
e=DC','MI','OH','WV','VA','MD','DE','NJ','CT','RI','MA','NH','ME','VT','NY','PA

Its Monday January 3, 2000.  The sun dawned here in the Northeast US at
7:14am and will set at 4:24pm for 9:10 hours of daylight.  Here's more
good news for green builders and developers:  Let's have a great
millenium!

http://www.djc.com/news/const/11002084.html

Mr. Henry "timearch" Maclean,

You better believe we'll be there.

Court

Hello Friends,

I thought I'd take a minute to wish you all a Happy Millenium and to let you
now that I've been invited to present to the BASEA ( Boston Area Solar Energy
Assoc. ) Forum this coming January 13 at the Unitarian Church on Church St.
in Harvard Sq.  Doors open at 7 and the presentation starts at 7:30.

If you know of anyone who might be interested in the project or who has been
involved with the Plaza to date you can let them know or send me or Henry
Vandermark of BASEA ( hkv@...) their address and he'll send them a
card.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on the 19th, reviewing Ian's research,
listening to our individual visionS of what GBANE??  wants to be and how we
can work to bring it into being.

Hope you've all had a restful holiday.  Happy New Year again.

Cheers ,  Henry MacLean

Contents
========
1. Dates
2. Details
3. Addenda (messages)


1. Dates
--------
Tuesday, January 11, 2000  Courtney Miller
Thursday, January 13, 2000  Henry MacLean
Wednesday, January 19, 2000  12:30 pm Green Building Alliance Northeast
Monday,  January 23, 2000 7:00 pm  Bill McKibbon


2. Details
----------
Tuesday, January 11, 2000  12:00 Noon-2:00 PM
Sustainability Roundtable Speaker and Discussion Series
presents Courtney Miller, AIA
Conservation Solar: Combined Benefits of Energy Efficient
and Solar Building Practices

The Park Room, Sixth Floor
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
70 Federal Street, Boston, MA
RSVP: Steve Bolton, stephen.bolton@...

--------------------------

Thursday January 13, 2000  7:30 pm
Boston Area Solar Energy Association (BASEA) Forum
invites you to attend Henry MacLean's City Hall Presentation

First Parish Unitarian Church
3 Church Steet - Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Doors open at 7 and the presentation starts at 7:30.

------------------------------

Wednesday, January 19, 2000  12:30 pm
Green Building Alliance Northeast
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF)
62 Summer Street
Boston, MA

---------------------------------

Monday January 23, 2000 7:00 pm
Environmental Speaker Series at Newton Public Library
Bill McKibbon addresses the state of the world and the environment

Green Decade Coalition/Newton 1-617-965-1995
Newton Free Library
Newton, MA 02492


3. Addenda (messages)
---------------------
> Sustainability Roundtable Speaker and Discussion Series
>
> Conservation Solar: Combined Benefits of Energy Efficient and Solar Building
> Practices
> Courtney Miller, AIA
>
> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000
> Time: 12:00 Noon-2:00 PM
>
> Location: The Park Room, Sixth Floor
> Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
> 70 Federal Street, Boston, MA
>
> RSVP: Steve Bolton, stephen.bolton@...
>
> Increasingly it is becoming clear that the one two punch of energy efficient
> building systems and solar electric/hot water technologies when applied in
> combination is the road to the future for the environmental building
> movement around the world. We will explore several examples of residential
> and commercial solar buildings that use an integrated approach to reducing
> the reliance on fossil fuel energy sources while enhancing the well being,
> health and productivity of building occupants.
>
> Courtney Miller, AIA is currently the co-chair of Architects for Social
> Responsibility, principal of Courtney Miller Architects, and President of
> New England Solar Homes, a national solar home design company. He caught the
> solar bug back in the summer of 1978 while designing a passive solar
> concrete tilt-up home in Seattle, WA for a window salesman/solar enthusiast.
> Later at UCLA in 1981, he designed a solar city with its own solar utility
> for the former Santa Monica airport site that was being studied at the time
> for as a model community. Just recently Santa Monica, CA made history by
> being the first city to declare that all of its power would come from
> renewable sources.
>
> This event, hosted by the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, is
> another in a series of brown bag lunches presented by the Sustainability
> Roundtable -- an informal network of practitioners exploring strategies for
> increased consideration of sustainability in public policy and
> decision-making.
>
> For more information about this event, the series or to add your name to the
> mailing list for future events, please contact Steve Bolton at
> stephen.bolton@... or 617-292-7771 extension 124.
> From: "Stephen Bolton" <Stephen.Bolton@...>
> Subject: Sustainability Roundtable Event Announcement

---------------------------------

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 Timearch@... wrote:

> Hello Friends,
>
> I thought I'd take a minute to wish you all a Happy Millenium and to let you
> now that I've been invited to present to the BASEA ( Boston Area Solar Energy
> Assoc. ) Forum this coming January 13 at the Unitarian Church on Church St.
> in Harvard Sq.  Doors open at 7 and the presentation starts at 7:30.
>
> If you know of anyone who might be interested in the project or who has been
> involved with the Plaza to date you can let them know or send me or Henry
> Vandermark of BASEA (hkv@...) their address and he'll send them a
> card.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on the 19th, reviewing Ian's research,
> listening to our individual visionS of what GBANE??  wants to be and how we
> can work to bring it into being.
>
> Have a great New Years and restful holiday.
>
> Cheers ,  Henry MacLean
>

-----------------------


>From rnn@... Thu Dec 30 12:52:51 1999
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:16:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Renewable News Network <rnn@...>
To: Rohna Shoul <rohna@...>, barbearth@...,
     Beth McDermott <BMcD50@...>, Daniel Ruben <dan_ruben@...>,
     dbach@..., ddelporto@...,
     "Ellie R Goldberg, M.Ed." <erg_hk@...>, nancyjoy@...,
     "Peter H. Smith" <phsmith@...>, plipsit@...,
     Bill Ravanesi 617-244-2891 <ravanesi@...>, Ross@...
Subject: Green News/Bill McKibbon

Dear Rohna,

Thanks for calling with the information on Bill McKibbon.  I'm going to
go get one of his books from the library to get the ghist.  He spoke
awhile back at Tufts and seemed to get a good response.  Very poetic.

Looking forward to receiving the actual press release and our updated
publicity and media outreach list.  Thanks for everything.  We can
certainly send copy to the e-mail lists.  Lot's of interest in these
topics and events.

Yours truly,
Ross

"Try to make it real compared to what."
                -Gil Scott-Herron (from the jazz song)

encl:

>A New Environment?
>By Bill McKibben, 12/08/99
>
>The bad news - and it's plenty bad, as usual - is that the Arctic is thawing
>out. Studies published Friday in the journal Science show that an area
>bigger than Massachusetts melts each year, almost certainly because of
>global warming due to our burning of fossil fuel.

>But the good news - and when you talk about global warming, it is unusual
>for there to be any good news - is that the political climate may finally be
>starting to thaw a bit as well. Ford Motor Co., the people who first figured
>out how to make gasoline a commodity for the masses, announced on Monday
>that it is quitting the Global Climate Coalition, the business umbrella
>group that has devoted itself for the last few years to blocking any action
>that might actually slow down the rate at which we are heating the planet.
>In a letter to Sister Patricia Daly, the nun who has helped lead the
>campaign against the coalition, Ford's chairman, William Clay Ford Jr.,
>wrote: '' Our intent at Ford is to move forward in progressive and
>constructive ways to address environmental issues.''

>Which is pretty much the opposite of what the Global Climate Coalition has
>been up to. In the last few years the coalition has spread outdated science
>the contention, for instance, that satellite data shows that the earth is
>not heating up. Peer-reviewed papers published last year in Nature showed
>that the satellite data did, in fact, show heating, but the coalition
>continued to distribute disinformation.It also promoted the work of
>obscure scientists simply because >they went against the nearly unanimous
>scientific consensus about the dangers of
>global warming.

>Even though the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of
>more than 2,000 scientists, has predicted rises of as much as a yard in sea
>levels in the next century, the coalition found a single Bermuda-based
>researcher who said otherwise and spread his work as widely as it could.
>It has also pushed scary economic studies that purport to show the cost of
>saving the planet's climate but don't factor in the costs of sea-level rise
>or other climatic disruptions.

>In short, the coalition has been the most effective force at persuading the
>public that the jury is still out on global warming even though the
>scientific jury returned its findings long ago and convicted us all of great
>folly in conducting a planetwide experiment that carries enormous risk.
>Ford's defection from the coalition matters enormously - most of all because
>the company has been far more an environmental sinner than an environmental
>saint. Just this fall it launched the single largest sport utility vehicle
>ever, the Ford Excursion.

>Ford fits in much more easily with the coalition than it does with, say, the
>upstart environmental organization Ozone Action, which has coordinated the
>anticoalition effort and helped persuade Ford to leave. But Ford can read
>the writing on the walls - >not just the angry graffiti that
>environmentalists left behind in Seattle last week but the graphs and
>charts of the climatologists and atmospheric physicists and the specs that a
>new wave of engine designers are putting forward for fuel cell cars,
>gas-electric hybrids, and other vehicles for a postcarbon future.

>Around the country, students have begun to organize in an effort to force
>colleges to divest stock in the companies that still belong to the
>coalition. Ford' defection will make that effort much easier. Maybe it will
>help Exxon, General Motors, Texaco, and Union Carbide to read the writing on
>the walls as well. It is possible that we have waited till far too late to
>start this fight. Ford's announcement won't help the Arctic ice in the short
>term, or the farmers facing droughts or the coastal residents facing harsher
>hurricanes. We have already spewed so much carbon into the atmosphere that
>we are going to see serious, maybe crippling, change. But at least the race
>to do something about it seems finally to be underway.
>Bill McKibben is the author of ''The End of Nature,'' which was recently
>reissued by Anchor Press.
>

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This is a short update about the 'Sustainable Development -
ONLINE' website of the European Foundation for the Improvement
of Living and Working Conditions (a public funded agency of the
European Union).

YEAR 2000 NEWS
SD-ONLINE will continue to be developed throughout next year.
There are some exciting additions programmed for the site. Micro,
small and medium sized enterprises will have their own database
about Sustainable Development Support Systems and Initiatives'.
New Reports will be published by the Foundation and a Case
Studies database is planned.

LATEST ADDITIONS
SD-ONLINE is now a significant information resource covering
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a selection of the new web sites recently added. For more
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CONFERENCES
1. Sustainability, technological innovation and competitiveness of
the firm
27/5/2000 - 28/5/2000 Strasbourg, France

2. Global Cities21 - ICLEI World Congress of Local Governments
28/6/2000 - 2/7/2000 Sachsen-Anhalt (Dessau), Germany

3.Pathways to Eco Efficiency
23/2/2000 - 24/2/2000 Melbourne, Australia

4. The Implementation of European Environmental Policies in
Southern States
18/5/2000 - 19/5/2000 Florence, Italy

5. International Conference on Responsible Nature Tourism
3/2/2000 - 5/2/2000 Koli National Park, Finland


NETWORKS
1. Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN)
2. City Development Strategies Initiative (CDSI)
3. European Mountain Forum
4. Environmental data interactive exchange
5. Swedish EnviroNet


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years.
3. MSc Transportation Planning and Engineering


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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:35:53 +0100
From: susdev@...
To: ENVST-L@...
Subject: Sustainable Development UPDATE

Dear Reader,

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Dear GBA-NE,

I'm repeating the enclosed message to get it recorded in the archives.
Go to http://www.egroups.com/group/gbane for our e-mail history.
(If the URL above is not a live link on your machine, let me know.)

Please note that the record of our messaging through <gbane@egroups.com>
is publicly accessible.  There is also a database at egroups.com
that subscribers may want to develop, and there are other features as
well.

Only subscribers may post messages, which keeps the spam down;  but there
is no approval required, and there is no moderation, either, so the normal
'netiquette rules apply.

Yours truly,
Ross

encl:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:15:41 EST
From: MCha6677@...
To: wleon@...
Cc: cdp@..., Timearch@..., FamArch@..., MCha6677@...,
     stuntzsc@..., starnay@..., itodreas@...,
     ross@..., courtney@..., sjamesassoc@...,
     rkennelly@...
Subject: Green Building, Climate Action

Dr. Warren Leon
NESEA

Dear  Warren,
It was good to meet you at the Mass Earth Day 2000 planning meeting
yesterday, and congratulations on your appointment as interim NESEA
director.

As told, a small grove of verdent architects, planners, etc. gathered at
CLF  on Dec. 8th to explore furthering green building practices in
metro-Boston and beyond.  NESEA of course and its upcoming meeting in
New Haven was heralded.   The group wishes to include and collaborate
with all like-motivated individuals, businesses, organizations and
agencies.   Thus, please consider this an invitation for NESEA/you to
join us in January 19th at 12:30 pm, at CLF, 62 Summer St.(and in
cyberspace) to assist us in devising a program for sustainable building
action.

Please see Richard Kennelly's Dec 8th minutes of said meeting, and Ian
Todreas' comment enclosed below.

Regarding your book tour and my efforts to find citizen's ripe to promote
Cities for Climate Protection to their municipalities, I welcome any
Massachusetts contacts you can provide to assist me in such organizing.

Best wishes,

Michael L. Charney, MD
PO Box 391887
Camb., MA 02139
(617) 492-6614
mcha6677@...

Subj:    Sustainable design meeting 12/8
Date:   12/13/99 5:51:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:   rkennelly@...

File:  Mtg12-99.doc

Hi, folks.  Many thanks to all for coming here last week and for
initiating a very stimulating and promising discussion.  As promised,
attached is the list of attendees.

For notes, I won't try to summarize what people said by way of
self-introduction, or Henry's or Jon's excellent ideas for City Hall and
the parcel over the depressed Central Artery.

But I thought it might be useful to sketch out what I heard in terms of
ideas for advancing green design practice in this region, beyond Jon and
Henry's specific ideas for those two locations.  These appear in the order
they came up during discussion, with the name of the person who initially
put forward the concept in brackets:

Philadelphia model [Courtney]:
Has governor's backing - key - and led by Dept. of Envtl. Protection
Building assessment methodology is key (e.g., LEED)
We need a New England "Green Building Alliance" - non-profit with a
constituency behind it (non-profits, businesses, government)
We need to list the people to solicit to get behind this effort
We need to identify sources of funding

Non-profit organization to empower various actors (e.g., CDCs,
developers) to make it possible to do the right thing [Stella]
Empowerment focus, versus advocacy (but maybe a little advocacy too.)
Measuring buildings is key - LEED

Education role is key part of empowerment [Franziska]

Green principles must be adopted at the state level, to be followed by all
agencies [Sarah]  This is independent of a non-profit or other
non-governmental organization

There is a role and need for both (1) state-level commitment, and (2) an
organization to facilitate and encourage adhering to and expanding that
commitment over time.

Finally, we proposed penciling in a follow-up meeting for Wed., Jan. 19,
from 12:30-2 p.m. (I've reserved our larger conference room here at CLF in
case we need it).

The idea was to develop a firmer agenda, perhaps with some specific
proposals, to be fleshed out and refined at that meeting.  If we need to
reschedule, so be it.

Happy Holidays to all, and I look forward to our continued real and
electrtonic discussions!

Richard
__________________________

Richard B. Kennelly, Jr.
Staff Attorney
Conservation Law Foundation
62 Summer Street
Boston, MA  02110-1016
Tel. 617/350-0990 ext. 744
Fax. 617/350-4030
E-mail. rkennelly@...
__________________________
Sustainable Design Meeting: December 8, 1999

Name    Organization    Telephone   E-Mail
Richard Kennelly    CLF 617-350-0990    Rkennelly@...
Jon Seward  Community Design Partnership    617-422-0882    CDP@...
Henry Maclean   Timeless Architecture   617-696-6448    Timearch@...
Franziska Amacher   Amacher & Associates, ADPSR 617-354-8707    Famarc@...
Michael Charney, MD Local Climate Action    617-492-6614    Mcha6677@...
Stephen Stuntz  Green Village Co.   978-263-5393    Stuntzsc@...
Stella Tarnay   Green Village Co.   617-491-1888    Starnay@...
Ian L. Todreas  The Cadmus Group, Inc   781-434-2522
Itodreas@...
Ross Donald <RNN>   781-453-9668    Ross@...
Courtney Miller Courtney Miller Architects  781-646-6165
Courtney@...
Sarah James Sarah James & Associates /
Sustainable Step New England    617-576-1745    Sjamesassoc@...

Subj:    suggestion
Date:   12/15/99 11:14:05 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:   itodreas@... (Ian Todreas)

Richard,

Thank you for pulling these notes and our contact information together.

As the group discusses how to structure an entity to promote green
building and design practices, I would like to take a step back to find
out what entities currently exist and what they are doing.  It would be
helpful (to me, at any rate) to have this knowledge in hand before
committing time and resources to creating a nonprofit.

What I propose is this:  researching the major entities (state agencies,
nonprofits, loose industry alliances, advocacy groups, research centers,
design/construction firms, etc.) across the country that have made green
building and sustainable design issues and practice their principal
focus. This research would uncover the following:

(a) organizational structure (nonprofit, government agency, industry
association).
(b) annual budget and funding sources.
(c) mission.
(d) geographic scope of activities.
(e) tools used to promote mission.
(f) major accomplishments in the past two years.
(g) contact information of appropriate representative.

The final research product would be a simple table, laid out on
legal-sized paper, that would hopefully provide the group with an overview
of what is going on in the field of green building across the country.  It
might provide clues as to what works, what doesn't work, what is needed in
the field overall, what is needed in the Northeast region, where we can
turn for advice, funding, informational resources, etc.

I will volunteer to pull this together by the next meeting if the group
concurs.  I only ask that people e-mail me pertinent information, leads,
and suggestions as I will otherwise be starting from scratch. If the
group doesn't feel this is necessary or helpful, fine.  Clearly, our
group includes people with lots of experience and expertise in the area
who may already know what is going on and perhaps they could fill the rest
of us (or just me) in at some point.

Happy holidays to everyone.  Cheers,

Ian

Ian L. Todreas, Associate
The Cadmus Group, Inc.
135 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA  02452
781-434-2522 tel.
781-434-2600 fax
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"Thinking Green: A New York City Initiative
in Public Building Design and Construction"

Talk by Hillary Brown, a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School
of Design and an architect serving as Assistant Commissioner
with the New York City Department of Design and Construction.
Time: 12-1:30pm.  Location: Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer
Building, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F.
Kennedy Street, Cambridge.  Contact: Jennifer Tice,
ticejen@....

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