[GSBN] Fwd: LEED for Homes - Tips for Successful Projects

[Mark Piepkorn]

Though North-America-centric, some of you may be interested in the 
following. It probably won't come to light during this webinar, but 
the presenter - Ann Edminster - is a strawbaler from way back who 
many of you know. Check this out:
http://www.thelaststraw.org/bonus-articles/ann_edminster.html
And she was, as it happens, the very person who first welcomed me to 
the CREST/REPP strawbale email list going on 15 years ago. (Holy crap!)


>LEED for Homes: Tips for Successful Projects
>
>URL: 
>http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2009/5/16/LEED-for-Homes-Tips-for-Successful-Projects
>
>Who could be more qualified than one of the principal authors of 
>LEED for Homes to provide insight on the best ways to make the program work?
>
>"LEED for Homes, like other rating systems, is an assessment tool. 
>This means that while it provides some 'how-to' information (at the 
>level of individual strategies or 'credits'), it doesn't offer any 
>guidance for how to approach the design and construction of a 
>high-performing home differently than a conventional project. Ann 
>Edminster will offer some of that missing guidance in this webinar."
>
>It gets better. Not only do you not have to jet off to some city to 
>sit in some auditorium during some high-priced conference to take 
>this in... it's free. Just sign up and it's yours for the taking on 
>June 2, at 2:00 pm Eastern (1:00 pm Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 am 
>Pacific), right on your computer. A gift from GreenBuildingAdvisor.com.
>
>The presenter, Ann Edminster, is a longtime green building mover and 
>shaker. In addition to being one of the main people who developed 
>LEED for Homes (she was its co-chair through most of the early 
>days), she's also a past member of the LEED Steering Committee, and 
>a member and past co-chair of the USGBC's Materials and Resources 
>Technical Advisory Group. She co-authored Efficient Wood Use In 
>Residential Construction: A Practical Guide to Saving Wood, Money, 
>and Forests, has written bunches of technical papers and articles, 
>and has been an invited speaker at dozens of regional, national, and 
>international green building conferences over the past 15 years. 
>She's the founding principal of the environmental design consulting 
>firm Design AVEnues.