July 2008
Reserve Sessions and Manage Personal Time through Greenbuild Scheduler

Greenbuild Boston offers more educational sessions, more events, and now, more assurance that you’ll be able to get into the sessions you want to attend. You told us that you wanted pre-registration for educational sessions, so this year we’re introducing the Greenbuild Scheduler. With the scheduler, you’ll not only know where your desired educational sessions will be held, but you’ll know that your seat is confirmed as long as you show up 10 minutes before the start. The scheduler takes the guesswork out of your conference experience, helping you compare, prioritize, and schedule your sessions, plus add personal appointments as well. Register now to get started.

Full conference registration opened this week! That means you can start signing up for onsite LEED workshops, evening events, green building tours and outdoor Boston events. Once your registration is complete, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to the Greenbuild Scheduler. This web-based tool allows you to scroll through all of the educational sessions offered, flagging sessions of interest. Once you’ve read through the list, the scheduler will help you prioritize your sessions, then place them on a calendar, alerting you to any time conflicts you might have and requiring that you decide which session you will attend.

The Greenbuild Scheduler doesn’t stop there. Juggling a personal schedule and keeping up with work at the office can be challenging when you’re attending a conference. Using the scheduler, when you view your personal schedule, all of your purchased auxiliary events, such as LEED workshops, tours, and outdoor events will be pre-populated along with your educational sessions. Best of all, the business meetings, breaks for coffee with friends, or evening events you plan to attend can be added as well. Your final schedule can be e-mailed to you, printed, or sent to your Outlook (or other format) calendar for viewing on your hand-held device.

Greenbuild is now ticketless, and more importantly, self-service. Your scanned name badge will get you into all of the events you purchased and all of the educational sessions you chose. This year, when you have to miss a session because a call comes in from the office or you have a deadline to meet, you can simply visit one of the dozens of self-service kiosks around the convention center and use the scheduler to rearrange your day.

Register now to reserve a space with your personal Greenbuild Scheduler.

Greenbuild’s Opening Plenary Speaker: Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will open with an inspirational speech by Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday, November 19. Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Laureate, led a crusade for social justice and racial conciliation in South Africa as then-General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. Today, he is revered worldwide as a moral voice seeking to end poverty and human rights abuses.

Archbishop Tutu's work is a living example of the theme of Greenbuild 2008 – “Revolutionary Green: Innovations for Global Sustainability.” His role in ending Apartheid in South Africa and bringing reconciliation to its people is an extraordinary example of how one person can ignite massive transformation, and inspires our own transformative goal of green buildings for everyone within a generation.

Tutu’s many accomplishments include receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism; and the Magubela prize for liberty in 1986. He is committed to stopping global AIDS and has served as the honorary chairman for the Global AIDS Alliance. In February 2007, he was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, president of India.

Don’t Miss World-Renowned Speakers—Guaranteed Plenary Access; Reserved Seats for Master Speakers

Greenbuild 2008 promises something for everyone, with over 100 educational sessions and world-renowned speakers, including:

Plenary Speakers:

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of Nobel Peace prize, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Gandhi Peace Prize
• E.O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator of Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
• Janine Benyus, Co-founder and Principal, Biomimicry Guild

Master Speakers:

• Paul Anastas, Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
• Stefan Behnisch, Principal, Behnisch, Behnisch & Partners
• Carol Browner, Principal, The Albright Group, and former EPA Administrator
• Majora Carter, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx
• Howard Frumkin, Director, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
• Van Jones, President and Founder, Green For Al
• Bill McKibben, Environmentalist and Author
• Leith Sharp, Director, Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI)

The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is large enough to accommodate all full conference attendees during the plenary sessions. For the master speakers, space can now be reserved. Act fast as these sessions are sure to sell out.

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While You’re in “America’s Walking City”...

While you’re in Boston, take part in some of the numerous auxiliary events. Choose from 25 green building tours, several outdoor events, and a variety of offsite educational sessions.

Highlights:

Green Healthcare Tour (Friday 1/2 day)
First stop: the green roof of the Massachusetts General Hospital Rooftop Healing Garden, a restorative retreat area for patients, family and staff. The building also features access to views, storm water management, and neighborhood redevelopment on a sustainable site. Then: Brigham and Women's Hospital Shapiro Cardiovascular Center with day-lighting, access to views, water efficiency, and low VOCs coupled with an efficient HVAC system that provides superior indoor air quality.

Green Affordable Housing Tour (Friday 1/2 day)
Innovative green housing abounds in the Boston area. Maverick Landing, an initiative of the Boston Housing Authority in East Boston is a neighborhood redevelopment of former housing projects into mixed-use and affordable housing. It includes photovoltaics (PV), co-generation, and a high-efficiency absorption chiller system. In the Roxbury neighborhood, Urban Edge Housing completed several brownfield redevelopment projects to create more affordable housing. Egleston Crossing features rain water collection, energy efficiency, and solar PV. The nearby Egleston Power Station is a transit-oriented neighborhood redevelopment with ground source heat pumps and water efficiency.

K-12 Green Schools Tour (Saturday all day)
Massachusetts has had a statewide green schools program since 2001. The William F. Stanley Elementary School in Waltham is certified LEED Silver. The Holton-Richmond Middle School in Danvers is an historic renovation and addition that features building-integrated solar PV. The Woburn Memorial High School project features rainwater harvesting, day-lighting, access to views, energy efficiency, PV, high recycled content, and construction waste diversion.