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Topical Green Web Casts for Community Development Practitioners

Over the past two years, LISC’s Green Development Center (GDC) and local programs have reached out locally and nationally to create relationships with green development practitioners. GDC has channeled these relationships, as well as our growing internal expertise, into organizing several webcasts as part of an ongoing Green Development Series. The goals of the series are:

• To address the issue of green premium feasibility for CDCs and other community development practitioners.
• To advance understanding of the integrated design process required for green-related savings and benefits, and to focus on early design choices to save on the operation and maintenance of a project.
• To introduce practitioners — development directors, contractors, architects, engineers, inspectors, permit providers — to different design decisions/analysis, new materials, and new installation procedures.

All webcasts are archived and available for viewing online or downloading.

2006 Archived Webcasts

• Green Standards and Certification. Presenters were Karl Bren, President, GreenVisions Consulting (Richmond); and Corey Brinkema, Executive Director of The Green Institute (Minneapolis). (November)

• Healthy Homes and Buildings. Presenters were Bob Zdenek, Executive Director of the Alliance for Healthy Homes (Washington, D.C.); Ellen Tohn, Principal, ERT Associates (Boston); and Noah Maslin, Associate Director of Real Estate, Urban Edge (Boston). (October)

• Greening Your Team: Green Development from Start to Finish. Presenters were Ed Connelly, Executive Director of New Ecology, Inc. (Cambridge, MA); Jennifer Pinck, Construction Management Consultant, Pinck & Company, Inc. (Boston, MA); and Michael Krause, Kandiyohi Development Partners (Minneapolis). (September)

2005 Archived Webcasts

• The Nuts and Bolts of Green Building. Presenters were Carlton Brown, Principal, Full Spectrum of NY, LLC (New York); Dennis Creech, CEO, Southface Energy Institute (Atlanta); and Jane Jones, Senior Project Manager, Homeowners' Rehab, Inc., (Cambridge, MA). (December)

• The Integrated Green Design Process. Presenters were Deane Evans, Executive Director, Center for Architecture and Building (Newark); Ed Connelly, Executive Director of New Ecology, Inc. (Cambridge, MA); and Joshua Galloway, Project Designer and Rose Fellow, Better Housing Coalition (Richmond). (November)

• Financing Green Development. Presenters were Mat Thall of Boston LISC and Clare Bressani Tanko of San Francisco Bay Area LISC; and Marty Keller and Tom Iamesi from First Community Housing (San Jose, CA). (September)