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Welcome to our monthly Newsletter!
The Flatwater
Chapter is involved in two exciting events this month:
On
August 23rd, the inaugural Lincoln Green by
Design seminar, "What a Green Building Program Can Do For You," will be presented from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Green Plains Gallery, 12th & P streets in Lincoln. The seminar, led by Joslyn Castle Institute's Cecil
Steward, the Flatwater Chapter of the USGBC, and
AIA-Nebraska, will explore the following questions:
• What will a municipal green building program do for the City of
Lincoln?
• What have other similar programs accomplished around the country?
• How does such a program fit into a regional framework of sustainable
design and development?
• What are material and site components for a successful green
building?
On
August 28th, Movie Night. Nebraska Emerging Green Builders and the USGBC Flatwater
chapter will show An Inconvenient Truth. 5:30 pm at Leo A Daly. Discussion following with Mary Ferdig,
Sustainable Leadership Institute. See flyer below.
2007 USGBC Flatwater
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archived
newsletters:
july 06 2007
june 01 2007
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August 28
- EGB Movie Night - more info - Flyer
September
20 - LEED Users Group
October 17
- Flatwater LEED seminar at the Nebraska Student
Union
Native Nebraska Roof
Planting Presentation
Fall -
LEED Commissioning workshop in Omaha at Metro Community
College
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Joslyn Institute
Seminars and Conferences (more
info):
August
23 - What a Green
Building Program Can Do For You
September
27 - Greening Our Schools
October
25 - Alternative Energy Strategies: How to get Involved
November
15 - Conserving Our Natural Resources: Strategies for a Sustainable Nebraska
Others
Conferences:
September
12-14 - Greening the Heartland, Madison, www.greeningtheheartland.org
October
24-26 - International Facility Management Assn., New Orleans, www.ifma.org
November
7-9 - Greenbuild, Chicago, www.usgbc.org
November
- Restore Omaha
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