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LEED Related Links

GBCI - Green Building Certification Institute 800-795-1746 exam@gbci.org
GBCI's LEED Green Associate page - Download LEED GA Candidate Handbook
Prometric Testing Centers 800-853-6764 (Don't call to reschedule; do it online!)
USGBC - The U.S. Green Building Council 800-795-1747
GBCI Policy Manual - Requirements pertaining to the LEED® Rating System
USGBC-SF - USGBC South Florida Chapter (Join and become part of the change)
DSIRE - Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency - Tax Incentives for going green.
Photographic Examples of Green building systems and other great ideas.
Real Life LEED - An informative and amusing blog
LEED v3 Certification Submittals
Regional Priority Credits by ZIP code (Download XLS files by State)
Two-Tier Flowchart - The new LEED credentialing path (Audio-Slideshow)

Required Reading, Watching, Listening:

Film: An Inconvenient Truth - Won Academy Award Best Documentary of 2007 (creators won Nobel Peace Prizes) Watch the trailer now.
Film: The 11th Hour (trailer) - Documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Film: The Greening of Southie - Documentary (trailer)
Audio/Article: Plumbing a Greener shade of LEED (Internet radio interview with a LEED AP and company owner dealing the realities of LEED Certification.)
Article: Obama Taps Van Jones as Green Jobs Adviser (also see video of Biden's Committee on Green Economy featuring Van Jones and others.)
Article/Audio: Van Jones' Green Vision (14 min. Interview with Van Jones)
Book: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
Book: Browse "The Green Collar Economy" here
Book: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Tom Friedman
Audio: Food As A National Security Issue - 40 min. NPR interview with Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food". (Watch MP speak! - several YouTube links.)
Article: How many food-miles are behind your piece of fish?American fish make a stop in China before arriving at the store.
TV: e2 - the economics of environmental consciousness (30 min. PBS program by Autodesk)
Article: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green WIRED Magazine article that may change your perception of what it means to be "green."
Article: Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths An excellent retort to the WIRED article.
Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
Film: No Impact Man (trailer) Article/Interview with Colin Beavan and Michele Conlin of BusinessWeek
Film: Food, Inc. For YouTube Trailer - click here
NYT Article: When Our Brains Short-Circuit - A matter of fatal flaws
NYT Article: Boiling the Frog - Time to wake up - We're in hot water!
NYT Article: Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat- Staggering statistics and an entertaining video!
BIPV- Building Integrated Photovoltaics in South Florida!
Audio: Bob Woodruff & Tom Friedman on Americans' perception of climate change.

Additional Links:

Article: How a CPA turned LEED AP is greening one of the Big Four Accounting Firms - Leisha John, Americas Director of Environmental Sustainability at Ernst & Young
Legal: The Legal Risk in "Building Green": New Wine In Old Bottles? (PDF)
Legal: Don't talk too soon! - Potential legal implications of prematurely over-promising: "We're LEED Certified!"
Article: Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
CD packaging revolution - Music Industry Reports On Sustainable CD Packaging
Masdar City, UAE
Environmental Working Group - The EWG team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know.
Mother Nature Network
Learn about MSC Seafood - each sustanable seafood.
British Gas Windfarm
The most interesting Wind Turbine designs
How to build a Wind Farm - Amazing photos
Miami Green
Least Wasteful Cities - How wasteful are you? TAKE THE TEST!
The North Pacific Gyre - on PRI's The World
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Scroll down for TV news report
The 7 Sins of Greenwashing
Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle
FIJI Water Responds to Mother Jones Article
Top Ten Green iPhone Apps
NPR's Educational Carbon Cartoon
EU Carbon Retirement (carbon calculator)
The Love Toilet - Worth one Innovation in Design point under WE-Credit 2