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Upcycling - Innovative submissions welcome

In case you were unable to attend Metro’s Upcycle Web Forum on Thursday, August 13th, the event recording and resources mentioned in the Forum are available at www.metro.net/upcycling. Once you have seen some of our waste diversion efforts and materials that could be available for repurposing at Metro, we hope this generates ideas...

Are you a sustainability rockstar?

What does it mean to be a sustainability rockstar? I learned a lot at the recent Women In Green Forum in Los Angeles. Read my blog at: https://usgbc-la.org/blog/snapshot-on-sustainability-are-you-a-sustainability-rockstar/

Women in Green Jobs

This week I’m at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, watching and learning as over 3,000 teens from about 82 countries share research and innovative ideas that could change our world - inspiring stuff. There are so many young women at this event. I’m thinking about the opportunities that await those who want...

Snapshot on Sustainability: A Library is far more than its books in circulation

Although the smart phone sitting in my pocket can help me find the answer to most any question, I don’t think of my phone as the intersection of technology and learning, but simply a tool that I use more often than I’d like to admit. However, a library is truly that space – that intersection – and more. I think of a library not only of the...

Resilience is on everyone's tongue these days

I hope you’ll check out my latest blog post for US Green Building Council - Los Angeles Chapter on Resilience: "Just over a year ago I started this blog to better understand what people think about the concepts and principles of sustainability. Early in the series I wrote an entry on resilience and I haven’t stopped thinking about it....

USGBC-LA's new blog post: The Eclipse

"Where were you on Monday? Did you block time on your calendar between 9:45 and 10:30am to make sure you could take a peak at the solar eclipse? If you’re like me, I was checking the weather and asking those with window offices to keep their blinds open, hoping for clear skies..." Read more at www.usgbc-la.org/blog

USGBC-LA turns 15

This week, USGBC-LA is celebrating 15 years. So, it’s a teenager. And like most teens, we can still remember its birth, we see much hope for the future, and in the present, there can be a lot going on and the choices made can set the path for adulthood. To read more, please visit: http://usgbc-la.org/blog/

USGBC-LA Blog post - Independence

As the July 4th weekend draws near, thoughts of BBQs and fireworks fill my mind and I wonder (maybe a little too often) why the smell of a BBQ makes me hungry, no matter how long ago I ate. I remember past fireworks shows and how my eyes ache for the spectacle while my body recoils from the vibration of each explosion. These are, after all,...

USGBC-LA's blog from Beatrice Ungard, titled "What is your City's or Neighborhood's Vocation?"

"The idea that a city or a neighborhood has a vocation may sound strange as the concept is usually applied to humans, not places. Yet, the notion of a place's vocation begins to make sense when you think of a place as a socio-ecological system that has the properties of a living system."... to read more, visit www.usgbc-la.org/blog

New guest blog posts - USGBC

In the past two weeks we've had guest writers post to the USGBC-LA blog. John Aidun talks about sustainable energy and computing and the USGBC-LA Board talks about the Paris Accord. I hope you'll check them out and leave a comment: www.usgbc-la.org/blog.