Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

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Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

Did you know that we have an index of free content from BuildingGreen Suite? And that only lists the highlights.

Try drilling down from the GreenSpec Product Directory page — the introductions to the product sections contain mini-bursts of information that touch on the environmental considerations of each particular category... considerations you may not have been aware of. (You can also get to those introductions through the CSI MasterFormat 2004 hierarchy page — as well as a set of informative sample Guideline Specifications.)

Now start clicking around in the High Performance Buildings Case Studies — you'll find that the Overview page for every project is free.

And then there's the Bibliography, and the Calendar...

Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

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Jerelyn Wilson — who has the inadequate title of "Outreach Director" for BuildingGreen — came down the hall and into my office a few minutes ago, bright-eyed and holding the current issue of YES! magazine in front of her, folded open. "Have you seen this?!" she asked, holding it out for me:

About that photo:

"Tsewang Norbu lives in the village of Digger across the 4,500 meters high Khardungla pass in the Leh District. He is twenty-eight years old, has five children and keeps goats.

He was selected by his community to be trained in the installation, repair and maintenance of solar photovoltaic units. All the solar units he installed were brought to the village by Yak and on the backs of people from the village. He was trained on the job: he installed fifty-nine units himself, taking three months to complete the work.

The units were installed in 1992. They are still working."

Photo by Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia
Copyright 2008 Barefoot College, Tilonia, India

(More pictures and words.)

Being around and working with people to whom not just an enthusiastic and positive world future, but an enthusiastic and positive here and now, matters, is inspiring and humbling. People who celebrate goodness, and strive for it.

Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

The tech folks here at BuildingGreen just rolled out some great website improvements. A few are invisible ones of the sort that quietly improve the experience... but very visibly and most significantly (in my opinion), the News page — which is available by clicking the "News" button near the upper right of each page on the site — has been redesigned and ramped up. It rocks. The editorial team will be making expanded use of the News page in the near future — stay tuned for that... perhaps by using the RSS feed.

The feature on the News page that I'm most excited about is having new comments made by Members on content from all over the site finally aggregated in one place. It's like the "Recent Comments" over on the right-hand side of the LIVE pages... but covering the entire BuildingGreen Suite. Tremendous.