Dynamic State Market Briefs

Sneak Peak for Advocates!

As you may have noticed, we have been celebrating some big "next level" announcements lately, like 3 billion LEED-certified square feet and more than 50,000 LEED-certified residential units. For our next milestone, we are excited to give our chapter advocates a sneak peak: new and dynamic State Market Briefs. You will soon be able to access state-level green building data in real time. No more waiting for an annual update; the numbers are all yours, all the time.

Launching online April 23 (mark your promotional and social media calendars), the new State Market Briefs are data visualization dashboards that provide a quick look at LEED and USGBC data specific to your state. For those who are familiar with our state market brief and snapshot resources from last year, think about this upgrade as the 4.0 version (we jumped forward several generations at once). The new dynamic State Market Briefs are accessible on USGBC.org and the visualizations can also be exported as PDF files to share with neighbors, friends, colleagues, and elected officials.

**To learn more about this new tool and how your peers are planning to leverage it, join us for the Monthly Advocates Call on Monday, April 21st at 4pm ET. To get the most out of the sneak peak, you should join us via WebEx.
Also, consider this as your reminder for our Monthly Advocates call!

Happy Easter and Chag Sameach for all those celebrating Easter and Passover.

Cherry Blossom Festival

Cherry blossoms hit "peak bloom" this week in Washington, DC

Chapter Corner

DC Green Code

DC Mayor Gray announced today that Friday DC will adopt and publish the DC Green Code among its other code updates. This will be a major step forward for states and localities that are excited about our Build Better Codes Campaign – setting a model for how to do it right.  Here is USGBC-NCR on a press release.

Tomkins County, NY

Tomkins County legislature enacted a new local law providing for up to a 10 year property tax abatement for construction achieving LEED certification.

USGBC Colorado rallies members at 10^th Annual Legislative Briefing

On Tuesday, March 5, U.S. Green Building Council Colorado was a proud partner at the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado’s 10th Annual Legislative Briefing. Each year, the event draws over 100 attendees and features an impressive lineup of state lawmakers who get no more than five minutes to highlight what they are doing to advance sustainability through policy.

Participants this year included State Senator John Kefalas who urged attendees to connect the dots between social and environmental sustainability through projects like walkable communities, which could also help address the state’s rising childhood obesity rates.

South Carolina Anti-LEED Bill (HB3592)
This week, Governor Nikki Haley signed HB 3592. The bill originally would have excluded LEED as a green building rating system for South Carolina's public projects in the future, by only allowing public projects to use LEED 2009. But through the lobbying and advocacy efforts of the chapter, their business partners, and their environmental NGO partners, the bill was amended to keep LEED for state projects.

April Advocates Call

April 21st at 4pm ET. 

To start or join the online meeting

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