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Now that so many of us are required to work remotely and stay home more than we are used to, we are generating more waste and our overflowing recycling bins and garbage toters are a visible sign that it is time to consider Circularity. What is this concept of Circularity? Circularity – short for “the […]

When we get through the current crisis, we still have climate change to deal with, and hopefully a lot of lessons learned about the need to better prepare for what we know is coming.  Recently, once the dust had settled after the February 21 deadline for the introduction of new legislation this year – the […]

    To Our USGBC-LA Community,   First of all, we wish you and your families all the best during this unprecedented moment in modern history. The COVID-19 pandemic is working its way through our social and economic fabric and those impacts will have repercussions for all of us, not only today but in the months […]

New Partnership with ISI to Offer Envision Certification Training for Infrastructure through Portal LOS ANGELES (March 6, 2020) The City of Los Angeles kicked off a Decade of Action withthe recent mayoral signing of “L.A.’s Green New Deal: Leading By Example”, focusing onbold action to zero out LA’s main sources of harmful emissions – buildings, […]

Where does your building start and where does your building end? This question has been coming up more and more for me as we engage more deeply in issues around mobility (people moving between buildings), air quality (air, particulate matter, and more moving in and out of buildings), and materials (where do they come from […]

With a wave of activism around the larger social impact of green building materials and new research into their life cycle performance, it’s no longer enough for a building to be net-zero, solar-powered, or utilize non-potable water. The raw materials and products used to construct green buildings also have to be sustainable from both an […]

How hard could it be to understand construction waste?  I know what waste is. I’ve been told all my life.  It’s something I no longer want or need – something that doesn’t have a use, like a weed.  But, like a weed that finds a purpose, construction and demolition materials (C&D) are one of the […]

Let’s face it. The appeal of urban living is easy to understand. Here in LA, we have access to some of the world’s best restaurants, museums, shopping, and attractions that people from all over the world flock to see. We are a hub for commerce and culture. No wonder so many millennials are willing to […]

[This article was written by Salem Afeworki (bio below), in collaboration with Susanne Kurowski — Research associate, Professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She is passionate about innovation and technologies that assist us in accomplishing the SDGs. Her research analyses entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainable innovation in the cleantech […]

For me, the events of recent weeks have been inspiring and brought back this feeling in my chest I used to know so well. No, it’s not just the hints of Fall in the air or that I stopped at Philippe’s for lunch recently. It’s that maybe, just maybe, we are starting to see some […]

SB 720, signed last year at Governor Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, made environmental literacy an integral part of California’s education code. A set of Environmental Principles and Concepts are now embedded in the state’s Next Generation Science Standards framework, as well as the health, history and social studies frameworks. As districts respond to the mandate to […]

LINK to Article | September 24, 2019 — BD&C Magazine