USGBC Education Post Changes Hands

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that Rebecca Flora will replace Peter Templeton as its senior vice president of education and research.

Flora leaves her post as the executive director of the Green Building Alliance in Pittsburgh and ends her tenure as chair of the USGBC Board of Directors; she begins her new position on January 15, 2009. Templeton, who has been instrumental in the development of USGBC’s educational programs, will become the president of the Green Building Certification Institute, USGBC’s sister nonprofit that administers LEED certification and LEED professional accreditation.