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Not Grumbling About Life-Cycle Assessment

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Based on some of the audience Q&A I think that much of the audience left grumbling after Thursday's session, "Demystifying Sustainability: A Life-Cycle Perspective," convened by the energetic Meredith Elbaum of Sasaki, with Stanley Rhodes of Scientific Certification Systems speaking along with Nancy Harrod of Sasaki and Melissa Vernon of InterfaceFlor. I put Stanley's name first because I think he was the source of the grumblin

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Though Greenbuild '07 wraps up soon (and checkout time at my hotel is at noon), I've still got a number of things to report. There will be additional Greenbuild-related posts in the coming days about products, happenings, and a probably a slight meander about social and professional hierarchies.

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To follow up on another reader comment, apparent fetishist Matthew suggested that "a fun report might be documenting the types of shoes people are wearing"—so I spent a little time shoe-gazing last night at the Leadership Awards celebration in the Merchandise Mart. Shiny black shoes were The Thing for both sexes. Some of the women had pointy-toed affairs, a couple of them almost elfin in structure; mostly spike heels, not wide heels or flats.

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I hadn't had the opportunity to look in on it since Monday, but I see now that the good folks from GreenSource started posting to their Greenbuild blog a couple days ago.

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Here's how self-absorbed I can get: I keep going back to the Greenbuild bookstore to see how many copies of Green Building Products are displayed. (I'm a co-editor with Alex Wilson.) It's not like I get royalties or anything; any of that funnels back into the company. It's just pure vanity, I guess. The stack goes up and down—three books, then five, then two, then four. A few minutes ago, there were eleven. It didn't take much effort to convince myself that they're tired of restocking, so put out a mess of them. Ah, fame.

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The prospect of getting into today's plenary by Paul Hawken isn't looking good for me. The lines are about as long as they were for Clinton yesterday, probably because all the people who were standing in the registration line then are available now to stand in this one. It gets darker.

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UTC Power, (the fuel cell folks), brought a hydrogen bus to Greenbuild and are giving people rides around the block. There's only a few of these prototypes on the road. While I'm sure the company would like to make more, the viability of a hydrogen economy is dubious, according to many. What's a bus have to do with green building?

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Alex Wilson is about to begin the session presenting the Top-10 products added to GreenSpec and/or reviewed in Environmental Building News over the past year... and because I can, vested by the power of the internet, these are them, just for you, even before the standing-room-only crowd of a couple hundred here in the room gets to see them.

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Last night we and the GreenSource folks had an intimate, half-crazed private party for 350 invited green builders at the Funky Buddha—a curious and amazing place of several connected rooms filled with murals, sculpture, candles, conversation niches, and atmosphere. Drinks and laughter were the order of the evening.

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Nadav, along with John Boeker of 7Group and Victor Canseco of Sandpebble Builders, is a panelist for a session at Greenbuild '07 convened by Larry Strain of Siegel & Strain Architects that's going on right now—"Green Guideline Specifications: Taking it Public, Making it Real." Here's how it looks. In the next room, the fabulous Ann Edminster of

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Not Grumbling About Life-Cycle Assessment

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Greenbuild '07: almost done, though I'm not

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The shoes of Greenbuild

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GreenSource Blogs GreenBuild 2007

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Green Building Products, the book

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More Plenary Tales

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UTC Power's Hydrogen Bus

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BuildingGreen's Top-10 products, 2007

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BuildingGreen party at Greenbuild

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Green building: quite some fad you've got there

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