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Contest Winner!

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:09:00 GMT

We have a winner! Angela Schleicher of Nashville won the contest for who could make the biggest environmentally friendly impact on the earth in February!
Congratulations Angela!
Angela helped her company go paperless. She devised a teaching Power Point for her coworkers that explained how to save documents without the necessity of printing them out. She saved paper, ink, wear and tear on printers, storage space and the heat and light of those storage spaces.
It has come to our attention that Angela lost her position with her firm shortly after this work was completed. We are happy to present her with a gift card - it is in the mail today! I am sure any firm would love to have someone who thinks in an environmentally friendly way and works hard too!

US GBC Announces 2009 Reference Guide Availability

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:53:00 GMT

Check it out, the new v3.0 Reference Guide will be available for pre-order in March. That's less than ten days away.
LEED 2009 puts New Construction, Core and Shell, Schools, Commercial interiors, and Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance in one guide.
The bad news is that even if you just purchased your v2.2 guide, USGBC will not refund or exchange old versions for the new ones. Nor will they give you a discount on LEED 2009.

February 13, 2009 - Website Finder

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:12:00 GMT

www,gbci.org: Haven't registered to take you LEED AP v2.2 exam yet? The deadline is March 31. Do not wait until then. Set an exam date for early March and you will have time to reschedule if you need to take it a second time. Also, don't we all get down to studying when there is a deadline?

February 12, 2009 - Thursday Picture Day

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:55:00 GMT

The earth trying to reinvent itself after man has attempted change.

February 11, 2009 - Wednesday Word Day

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:46:00 GMT

e-cycling: This word is a follow-up tp last week's e-waste and e-scrap. e-cycling is when you are able to dispose of you electrical/phone equipment in a responsible way. The tough part is that many items contain toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, and lead. Check with local authorities to see if they have a program for disposal. Many used, but still good phones are collected by women's shelters. Left with one or two cartridges of ink when your printer gives up? Go on-line to Craig's List or a local site that allows you to trade items. You probably won't get cartridges for your new printer, but you may find something else you need.

Pittsburgh CSI Chapter

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:00 GMT

The Pittsburgh CSI Chapter was gracious enough to invite me to speak to them tonight on How to Pass the LEED Exam. Don't worry, I did not pass out the list of A, B, C, and D answers to the multiple choice questions on the exam. Instead I tried to lead them through the thought process of why the exam is tough and what is very fair about it. There were a few LEED APs in the audience and quite a few more attendees who would like to add this prpfessional credential to their resumes. Good Luck to all. Test well!

February 9, 2009

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:38:00 GMT

We are one week into the contest and have an entry that wins points for materials and resources savings. Who has an entry that will give our first contestant a run for her money?

February 6, 2009 - Website Finder

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:29:00 GMT

Website Finder
ConsumerSearch.com has product reviews from consumer experts and users. I am always a little skeptical of reviews, were they written by a company employee to boost sales? Were they written by a user who spilled coffee on his keyboard and is now in a lousy mood? But, I have found them helpful if I know very little about a product, its upside and downside. Most reviewed products? TVs, vacuum cleaners, mattresses, coffeemakers, lawnmowers and snowblowers. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Thursday Picture Day

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:19:00 GMT

plug it in, plug in it. So spoke a well known jingle for air fresheners. Well, if you can hang on to you old vehicle for one more year, there will be more choices for FEV (Fuel Efficient Vehicles) next year. It is something you have to weigh. Is my car such a heavy polluter now that it makes sense to get rid of it or will trading it in now contribute unneccesarily to a landfill? Is it better to hang onto it for one more year and then have a FEV that I can drive for a long time?

February 4, 2009 - Wednesday Word Day

Patricia Bohnert CIT LEED AP — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:05:00 GMT

e-waste: The flotsam of the IT/computer/phone/electrical gadget world. What to do with equipment that has a shorter life than anything the world has ever manufactured? Think of your parent's (or grandparent's - depending on how old you are) rotary dial phone. They had that same phone all of their lives. Two people (or more if you count the whole household) with one phone mounted on the kitchen wall. Now, think of the six billion people on earth and how often a cell phone is upgraded and how many land line phones might be in a home in addition to the number of cell phones - one for each of us. I had my first computer in the mid-1980's. The computers and paraphenalia I and my family have bought since then would fill a small room. e-waste or e-scrap, lets look for alternative uses!