SIJ Provides Webinars

Pretty excited to see this. The Sustainable Industries Journal (SIJ) is rolling out webinars.

I'm a big fan of webinars in general. The SIJ's parent company Celilo Group has done this in the past with their NW Current franchise as well. The few I've done have been extremely informative and packed with the type of information you usually must spend thousands of dollars to get via traveling to a conference. This in particular being a huge way to add value and spread information for a news provider. Great way to show leadership for a trade journal.

The first one is "Emerging Green Build Products" running later this week on November 14th.

To register go to: www.SustainableIndustries.com/events

New "Green Build" Standard Announced

From the Environmental Leader

The National Association of Home Builders is launching a National Green Building Program at the 2008 NAHB International Builders’ Show in Orlando in February.

The national initiative will link dozens of state and local green building programs with a universal online certification tool, national registry of green homes and green builders. To date, about 100,000 green homes have been built through programs run or supported by local building associations around the country.

“We are bringing green building into the mainstream,” said NAHB President Brian Catalde, a home builder in Southern California. “The NAHB National Green Building Program isn’t a new way to build green. However, it’s a low-cost administrative and certification system that will help keep green affordable – and that’s the key to market acceptance.”

NAHB’s standard would compete with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating tools for residential and commercial buildings, Greenwire reports (via WBCSD).