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GREEN BUILDING NETWORK -- Energy Star for Homes

Next Meeting : TUESDAY, November 3, 2009 6:30 - 8:30pm Free

Location: THE ENVIROCENTER 7761 Waterloo Road Jessup, MD 20794

Presenters: Roger Woods, Energy Star Manager with ICF International
Bert Dudley, Energy and Resources practice of ICF International

To RSVP, please call 443-733-1234 or email RSVP@greenbuildinginstitute.org

SPONSORED BY: BGE, ICF International and the www.GreenBuildingInstitute.org

About the Presenters:
For the BGE Smart Energy Savers Program, Roger Woods manages the ENERGY STAR for New Homes and HVAC Programs. He is a Manager with the ICF International with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in residential construction and energy efficiency as well as mechanical, plumbing and electrical design. Prior to joining ICF, Roger served as energy efficiency consultant for clients such as Owens Corning and the Nevada State Energy Office for whom he provided training, certification programs, technical expertise and audits. As a HERS Rater and Provider, Mr. Woods co-founded the Nevada ENERGY STAR Partners, a coalition dedicated to energy efficiency, environmental stewardship and conservation, which won four EPA ENEREGY STAR Sustained Excellence Awards and was integral to achieving 57% market penetration of ENERGY STAR qualified homes in Las Vegas.

Bert Dudley is currently an Associate with the Energy and Resources practice of ICF International. He has over seven years of experience working in the areas of energy efficiency program implementation, residential energy efficiency, land use and urban planning, large and small scale renewable energy projects, and soil and groundwater remediation. Mr. Dudley is currently an Account Manager for the BGE Smart Energy Savers Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program. Mr. Dudley has his Master’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco and is also BPI Building Analyst Certified.

To RSVP, please call 443-733-1234 or email RSVP@greenbuildinginstitute.org .

Through its Smart Energy Savers ProgramSM, Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) offers a host of empowering choices to help individuals and businesses conserve energy, save money and protect the environment. Program staff will introduce all of the great programs, services and incentives that are available, with an emphasis on opportunities for remodelers and builders.
The BGE Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® Program demonstrates how improvements throughout a home can work together to give your customers the most energy-efficient results. Participating in this Program is a great way to expand your remodeling business as the market increasingly demands energy efficiency services. Your company can provide customers with more comfortable, safe, and durable homes while helping reduce their energy usage.
The BGE ENERGY STAR for New Homes Program helps builders distinguish themselves leaders in energy-efficient construction and environmental stewardship. Participation in this Program helps builders provide their customers with a home that helps them save money and do their part for the environment— a home built to higher energy efficiency standards. Participating builders qualify for financial incentives as well as technical and marketing support to help them differentiate their business, increasing leads and profits.
For more information about the BGE Smart Energy Savers Program, visit: http://www.bgesmartenergy.com/

The Green Building Network was initiated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and is now administered and supported by the Green Building Institute. The Network (GBN) is an ad-hoc, informal group of architects, builders, contractors, developers, planners, landscape architects, related professionals and interested individuals. With more than 3,000 members, the GBN focuses on promoting and facilitating design and development in a manner consistent with efficient and appropriate use of natural resources, environmental protection, and the promotion of sustainable communities.

The GBN provides opportunities to meet, share information, and highlight green building/green development projects throughout Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Region. The GBN also provides assistance in identifying and implementing outreach and educational opportunities.

The general public is always warmly invited to GBN meetings. They are held on the first Tuesday of every month, except for holidays, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Enviro Center. GBN meetings and activities will be announced through GBI e-newsletters and on the GBI web site. To be added to the e-mail list please click here. For further information, or to submit an event, please email Leslye@greenbuildinginstitute.org.

What: Sustainable Tourism Presentation and Green Travel Auction

Who: Chris Seek, President of Solimar International, and board member of Sustainable Travel International

When: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Busboys & Poets, Langston Room (14th and V St.- near 14th and U St.)
*2 blocks from U St. Cardozo Metro, Green/Yellow Line
further from DuPont Circle Metro, Red Line
Tickets: $15 Members, $20 Non-Members* (Cash/Check Only at Door)
Includes One Drink Ticket. Menu items available.
*one-time additional $5 fee provides membership status
RSVP: dcgreenconnection@gmail.com
For more information, contact Monika Thiele (206.790.1769)
See also: www.meetup.com/The-DC-Green-Connection/
From Monika Thiele, organizer of DC Green Connection:

Greetings DC Green Connection Members and Friends!

I hope you are enjoying the fall colors which really seem to have popped this weekend! I'm out here on the Chesapeake Bay looking the sun dappled leaves and Canadian geese flying south, getting ready to migrate back to DC myself.
Hopefully you've had a chance to peek at the information for this Thursday's DC Green Connection event featuring the topic of travel and tourism. How can we all take steps to travel more lightly and apply green practices to our choices for transportation, lodging, dining and tour operators?
Chris Seek, board member of Sustainable Travel International (a non-profit), will guide us through today's tourism landscape and share tips for traveling more responsibly. Chris is also President of Solimar International, a DC-based sustainable tourism consulting firm that provides strategy, training, investment and marketing services to tourism businesses and associations around the world.
The presentation will start at 6:00pm followed by a networking reception and information about Sustainable Travel International's green travel auction! All proceeds go to benefit Sustainable Travel International's mission to promote responsible travel and ecotourism, support sustainable development, and help travelers and travel providers protect what's best about the destinations we visit.
Our green hosts for the evening, Busboys & Poets, are a certified B corporation, meaning that they apply high standards of social and environmental performance which you can learn more about on Thursday.
Please join us and bring your friends to help spread the word about traveling green!
Green regards,
Monika Thiele
The DC Green Connection &
Sustainable Travel International

Sustainable Travel International (STI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to promoting responsible tourism, supporting sustainable development, and helping travelers and travel providers protect the environments and cultures they visit.
The DC Green Connection (DCGC) is a new green venture dedicated to growing the green economy locally and promoting sustainable living widely. Find out about simple ways to green your lifestyle, make more informed consumer choices, and connect with green businesses near you!

Host: Focus-In! Cinema for a Conscious Community
Type: Party - Movie/TV Night
Network: Global
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Busboys @ 5th & K
Street: 1025 5th Street, NW
City/Town: Washington, DC

Food and drinks will be served. T-shirt giveaway and more!!

A special "Focus-In! Cinema for a Conscious Community" presentation focusing on Global Warming!

'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: "why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?"

What: Extreme Green Gala organized by Tiffany de Lisas

When: Friday, October 9, 2009 6:30-11:00pm

Where: The Mott House, 122 Maryland Ave NE (1 block from Supreme Court)
Metro - Union Station - red line or Capitol South - blue and orange lines

Tickets: $25, proceeds help benefit greening low-income homes

Purchase Ticket at www.earthislandprojects.org/carbonfreedc/extremegreen.html

Due to the large numbers of attendees already registered, the Extreme Green Gala expanded space at the Mott House to give you room to mingle with a diverse crowd of environmentalists and socially-conscious individuals.

Everyone is rallying to support CarbonfreeDC's Extreme Green Neighborhood Makeover, featured on CBS News. In the past couple days, registrants have come from all across the country, including prominent organizations like Sierra Club, Earth Island Institute, Trail Voice, Center for Clean Air Policy, Consumers Union and Clean Water Network. Will you join us?

Visit the Extreme Green Gala website for the schedule, parking and dress code information.

Please, help us green low-income homes in DC and register now.

Extreme Green Gala Speakers
Lisa Jackson Lou Leonard Harriet Tregoning
US EPA Administrator WWF Int'l Climate Expert DC Office of Planning
(via video)
Extreme Green Makeover Volunteers

Entertainment and Hors D'œuvres
Kid Goat Band Rock-n-Roll Tony PhillipsJazz WVSA Art Gallery Benefiting City Youth
Java Green, Honest Tea, Seasonal Fruits and Cash Bar

Note also -
October 4 10-11 Green Festival at the DC Convention Center
Volunteer with Sierra Club SundayOct 11 1-4pm- free ticket for the day
sign up ASAP with Julie Locascio at <pomba27@aol.com>

1 - 4 Philo's group

information for volunteers:
LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place Convention Center Metro - green, also a few blcoks to Chinatown-Verizon Center - red and green lines
REGISTRATION: This is the tricky part! You must look for a special registration table for volunteers--not for Green Festival volunteers, but for Exhibitors. We do not have specific information for how to find this, and it was not easy last year, so please take your time in reading the signs, and feel free to ask a Green Festival volunteer where to go. You should NOT have to stand in any of the LONG lines! The trick is figuring out where Exhibitors (and their Volunteers) can register. Once you find that spot, simply tell them that you are volunteering for SIERRA CLUB D.C., Booth 409. They will then give you a guest (or visitor) badge good for the whole day. (They told us we do NOT need to put your names on a list.) IMPORTANT: you must return your badge when you leave or they will not be available for later volunteers!!!!

BOOTH: 409 (from the main entrance, go to the left, and then back a short ways. We are not far from the main entrance. We should have three Sierra Club banners up. NOTE: We registered very late, so our name is probably not going to be in any program guide you pick up. Just remember Booth 409!!!

STAFFING: When you arrive, the D.C. Sierra Club person in charge will probably be Amanda Brinton or myself. We will brief you on what you need to know, which is not much!

It is unlikely we will have cellphone reception inside, but Julie Locascio's number is (202) 492-7979.
Please let me know ASAP if you need to change your hours. (And let me know if you have any questions!)

thanks again!

Julie Locascio, Executive Committee
Membership Engagement Chair
D.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club

www.mtpleasantsolarcoop.org/
Saturday Sept 19
Mount Pleasant DC Solar Coop Solar Tour and EcoLiving Fair
18th and Newton NW - Columbia Heights Metro

Fuel -- the film Sunday 20th 415pm (4:25 pm screening) and all weekend Saturday and Sunday
https://tickets.landm....
E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street NW and E Street - entrance on E Street

For Fuel Sunday Sept 20 4:15pm -- you can also see it other times this weekend. Josh Tickell says it is important to see if on the first weekend, so that it will be held over the following week. After the last show on Sunday, he says, the theater needs to see 1000 attendees or more, for the film to be screened the following Friday. If not, it closes on Thursday night. So, seeing the film on Monday through Thursday does not determine whether it is held over.
Fuel took the 2008 Audience Award for documentary at Sundance -- and it's not hard to see why. Josh Tickell is thoughtful, earnest and immensely likable, as well as accessible. His film is the result of his 12-year journey of discovery and hard work, in which he tries to change his own life as well as the world by finding cleaner, greener solutions to our transportation needs. The film is far reaching and biting in it's commentary, yet it isn't preachy. It certainly isn't dry.
Fuel crackles with energy and heart, and it's definitely one of the better environmental films to come out in recent memory. So vote with your feet and check it out.
Features a Toyota Prius called now the Algaeus- to go on 150MPG on Algae- this has never been done, ever, ever! And in a similar vein, this is the first car to run on synthetic algae fuel made for a gasoline engine. And THE BIG GREEN ENERGY BUS that will go around the US to classrooms sharing about energy efficiency, water efficiency, fuel alternatives and all sorts of eco initiatives.
“Fuel” is a vital, superbly assembled documentary that presents an insightful overview of America’s troubled relationship with oil and how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country’s — and the world’s — addictive dependence on fossil fuels. Gary Goldstein, LA Times
Also at E Street Cinema this weekend. Earth Days - the movie -- Though many know the basic storyline, Robert Stone’s documentary, Earth Days, explores the roots of the first Earth Day, follows its rise through the legislative achievements in the 1970s, and collapse with the Reagan administration, with some intriguing surprises.
At E Street Cinema with Fuel, the film. You could make it a double feature.

Also, Monday, September 21, 7:30pm, Age of Stupid Global premier in over 550 theaters, Mazza Gallerie and others in DC included. (not at E Street). With live satellite feed of an event in NYC kicking off Climate Week at the United Nations.
www.ageofstupid.net/usa -- list and maps of US theaters

Also, No Impact Man at E Street Cinema at 7 pm on Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26 with CarbonFreeDC. www.meetup.com/CarbonfreeDC/calendar
www.noimpactdoc.com

Also, October 9, 6:30 pm, Green Gala with CarbonFreeDC.

Also, Green Festival on October 10-11
with Sierra Club DC Sunday 1-4pm email to Julie Locascio, pomba27aol.com of the DC Sierra Club
or directly with www.greenfestivalvolunteers.org/dc/ volunteer for a free ticket. Sunday night available.
or volunteer with CarbonFreeDC Sat 10am also for a free ticket

Also Solar Decathlon October
Volunteer at
www.solardecathlon.org/for_volunteers.cfm
Exact dates of the 2009 Solar Decathlon event are:
Oct. 8-16—Teams compete in 10 contests
Oct. 9-13—Houses are open to the public
Oct. 15-18—Houses are open to the public
Oct. 19-21—Teams disassemble their houses.
The Solar Decathlon houses will be open for public tours 11 a.m. –3 p.m. Monday–Friday and 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Please note that all homes will be closed Wed., Oct. 14.
f you'd like to participate in the 2009 event, you can volunteer as a team crew or event volunteer.
Team crew volunteers help a team in the assembly and disassembly stages of its house on the National Mall. To be a team crew volunteer, or for more information, you must contact and work with the teams directly. Please note that you do not need to register as an event volunteer to be a team crew volunteer.

Drew Barrymore to Drive Jay Leno's Electric Ford Focus on September 18 2009 This should get word out to a wider audience with uninformed.