EnvironDesignLIVE
Archived Spring 2007 Webinar Series Content

There were seven webinars in this EnvironDesignLIVE spring series, that took place May 15 and ran through August 7, 2007. These are now archived online for on-demand viewing.

How to register:
If you have not yet registered, click on any of the green buttons next to the webinar titles to register. You may then choose to register for any or all of the webibnars.	If you have previously registered, click on the yellow button next to the webinar title to take you directly to that individual webinar.

The Spring 2007 Series webinars were:

Working on over 3,000 projects representing over $10 billion in annual construction
spending, Gensler is well positioned to drive green products into the marketplace. However, we must always balance green attributes with performance and aesthetic considerations. In addition, we need to be absolutely sure the green story being told is the true story. In this Webinar, Kirsten will take the audience through a variety of sustainability case studies including product marketing literature, construction specifications and assorted online web resources to describe what works for the Gensler team of designers and architects and what doesn't.

About the Speaker:
Kirsten Ritchie, P.E, is Director of Sustainable Design with Gensler. An innovative problem-solver sought by clients to address emerging environmental and sustainability topics within the context of competitive advantage, Kirsten has managed the SCS Environmental Claims Certification Program. She is the Chair of ASTM Task Group on Environmentally Preferable Products, serves on the Technical Advisory Board for Collaborative for High Performance Schools, and is a board member with International Design Center for the Environment.

As more and more industries, consensus groups and private entities develop environmentally responsible standards for building products, it is becoming increasingly important that you learn how to critically review these standards and the groups that have created them. This Webinar will help you make informed decisions on green product resources and individual product marketing information. Learn how to incorporate green product criteria into standards and specifications and explore approaches to choosing among them for maximum project impact.

About the Speaker:
Rebecca Aarons-Syndor is Project Manager with Sustainable Design Consulting, SDC. Greatly influenced by Thomas Jefferson's philosophy that no generation should live such that it places future generations in debt, Rebecca is a LEED® Accredited Professional and has a Master of Science in Sustainable Design, from Carnegie Mellon University.

About the Speakers:
Leanne Tobias is Principal with Malachite LLC. She is a USGBC, LEED Accredited Professional and serves on the Executive Board of the International Design Center for the Environment and the Advisory Board for Green Building Finance Consortium.

Gary F. Christensen of The Christensen Corporation operates a commercial lending service and recently completed the Banner Bank Building in downtown Boise, awarded LEED-CS Platinum status by the US Green Building Council, a distinction shared by only 3 private, for-profit developers at the time. Gary has teamed with Ben Shedd, an Academy Award winning producer/director to create a documentary on the development of the project.

Carlton Brown is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Full Spectrum New York, a green urban development firm.  He is the developer of 1400 Fifth Avenue and the Kalahari, both green condominium projects located in the Harlem area of New York City.  He has served on several boards including the NY Chapter, AIA, the Business Resource & Investment Service Center (BRISC) of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and Board Chair of 651 Arts.

Climate change and other environmental challenges now threaten the future of life, as we know it. The U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED Green Building Rating System have defined green building for over 50 cities, dozens of states and federal governmental agencies and thousands of projects, members and LEED Accredited Professionals. The momentum has been unprecedented and is only just starting, but we need to go further. If everyone lived and worked in a LEED Platinum building and drove a Toyota Prius, the world would still sink and humans would continue killing each other. How can each of us dig deeper, and impact more systemic and regenerative change: inside our souls, daily life, families, work and spheres of influence? Learn the path to "deep green,"as well as his green life rating system and his vision for a restorative world.

About the Speaker:
David Gottfried is Senior Vice President - Sustainable Development, Thomas Properties Group and Founder, U.S. and World Green Building Councils. He has over two decades of multidisciplinary real estate and management consulting experience, primarily serving the building industry: as a real estate developer, construction manager, sustainable development management consultant, and founder of the U.S. and World Green Building Councils. Since 1991, Gottfried has worked exclusively with clients that strive to lessen our reliance on limited natural resources and wasteful practices, while boosting lifecycle based economics and quality of life. This work commenced with the "greening"of building projects and portfolios of projects, and more recently, has led to helping enhance the sustainability of companies and positioning  heir product offerings to the rapidly growing "green" marketplace.

How does your firm incorporate green products and technologies into mainstream practice? How highly do you score in the rating systems? Learn practical steps to seamlessly incorporate green products, strategies and technologies into your baseline design services and increase profitability, and improve employee attraction and retention. Content of this Webinar is based on an extensive 18-month boot camp program run in mid-to-large design firms. It has been distilled to give you the framework and process models to share with your firm and implement yourself.

About the Speaker:
Barbra Batshalom is the founder and Executive Director of The Green Roundtable(GRT) and NeXus an independent non-profit organization and an Affilliate of the USGBC. Barbra brings a diverse background to her work including social psychology, exhibit design and 15 years in architecture and green design consulting on a wide variety of building types and planning scales. Barbra founded GRT to address underlying dysfunctions in design process to improve the value, performance and health of the built environment.

This Webinar provides a brief introduction to sustainability and the positive role that designers can play.  Currently, the U.S. market has embraced the LEED Rating System developed by the USGBC. This Webinar will include a full explanation of the latest trends relative to the LEED for Commercial Interiors System and how it can be used as a tool for projects.  Most importantly, this is an in-depth look at the benefits and selling of sustainable design. The webinar will include a focus on LEED-CI and how this system worked on the Interface Showroom project; the first Platinum rating – it's a hands-on account of the entire process. 

About the Speaker:
H2 Ecodesign is a sustainable design consulting firm that is a catalyst for eco-positive design in the built environment and global business strategy for owners, design firms, manufacturers and other entities.

Prior to H2 Ecodesign, Holly Henderson was with Interface as Director of Creative Design, and previously sustainable design director for TVS in Atlanta. She was the first LEED 2.0 Accredited Interior Designer in the state of Georgia, as well as managing LEED AP for the Interface Showroom and Officesin Atlanta – the first (and currently only) LEED–CI Platinum Level Project (Pilot).