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The South Central Regional Committee Leadership Summit

The USGBC North Texas Chapter is very excited to be hosting our Region's Fourth Annual SCRC Leadership Summit. Over the past months, the planning team has researched and identified critical topics to be considered with survey input from many of you.

In addition, in the coming months, the team will coordinate session content and speakers that address some of the latest advancements in sustainable thinking within our chapters and beyond.

We hope each Regional Chapter elevates the 2011 Leadership Summit for participation and extending leadership training, relationship building and cutting edge programming to the Chapters’ BOD’s, committee leaders and volunteers.  Each attendee will need to bring an appetite for learning but a willingness to engage in the conversation - a conversation that shares with others:

This session will explore the LEED Indoor Environmental Quality category in a credit by credit format. We will look at the overall intent of this category, as well as the individual intent of the prerequisites and credits within it. We will also discuss the requirements and verification steps necessary to achieve each credit and some real world examples of strategies used to fulfill each measure.

This session explores the LEED Materials and Resources category in a credit by credit format, reviewing the overall category intent and the individual intents of the prerequisites and credits within it. Learn the technical requirements of the credits and, through real-world case examples shared by USGBC LEED Faculty, strategies that work to achieve them.

This session explores two LEED credit categories, Water Efficiency and Innovation in Design, in a credit by credit format, reviewing the overall category intents and the individual intents of the prerequisites and credits within it. Learn the technical requirements of the credits and, through real-world case examples shared by USGBC LEED Faculty, strategies that work to achieve them.

The U.S. Green Building Council-Texas Gulf Coast Chapter is partnering with an array of non-profit leaders to produce high quality energy-efficiency education to the commercial industry. The Houston Chapter of Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) and Houston Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) are among those that are inspired to bring a premiere educational summit to Houston, one that will promote discussion and knowledge about energy and green issues along the Texas Gulf Coast.
On August 23, 2011 the USGBC Energy Summit will be honored to host the following distinguished speakers and panels at The Houstonian Hotel in Houston:

The Breakfast Keynote Speaker will be Lisa Zembrodt of Summit Energy. She will discuss the Dynamics and Fundamentals of the Texas Energy Markets, Production, Capacities and Consumption. An expert in the energy market, Zembrodt provides pertinent information, helping decision-makers understand the current and future state of energy supply and demand.

Cooper Lighting's Winfield Littleton will address where to use T8, T5 and T5HO lamps and how to incorporate task and daylighting. This presentation will also include an overview of suitable fixtures for those lamps and address key energy efficient lighting technologies.

$25 Non-member
$20 Member (USGBC, AIA, IES)
$10 Student

Dutch treat dinner with other vegetarians.

Live music.

BVStx’s mission is to educate the public, particularly the African American community, on the benefits of a plant-based diet, to promote wellness and to influence the community to pursue a vegetarian lifestyle.

Instructions on selection of trees appropriate for N. Texas and the location and proper tree planting technique followed by hands on demonstration of planting a tree on the library grounds. Free.

Local Herpatologist Barry Allen will help local gardners indentify reptiles by site and by their hole and understand their role in our gardens. Free.

Fran Witte of the City of Irving wants people to recycle graywataer but wants them to do it within city, county, state codes. So Irving is offering this free class but you must register to take it. Click thru this page to register: http://cityofirving.o... There are many different styles of irrigation, but one of the most challenging is graywater irrigation - irrigating using water from sources coming from within the home such as our sinks, baths and showers. Participants will learn more about graywater irrigation design, codes and permits, as well as what to do and what not to do. FREE.