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SEPTEMBER FEATURE
The way in which we construct our built environment-from a single building to a neighborhood to an entire region-affects the health of humans and the natural environment in myriad ways. Haphazard development patterns and unhealthy buildings have contributed to skyrocketing obesity rates, an increasing number of asthma cases, environmental degradation, eroding neighborhood relationships, and unpredictable and dangerous changes to our climate, among other consequences. By the same token, designing and constructing our buildings and neighborhoods with an eye to public health can help reverse these trends and create additional economic and social benefits for the people who live and work in these places. Andrew Dannenberg, co-editor of Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability, USGBC Neighborhood LEED Faculty Ted Bardacke, and moderator Kaid Benfield, director, Sustainable Communities, NRDC and co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; will discuss these issues and engage with USGBC members on how design impacts public health.
Learn more in a USGBC Member Literary Lunch Webinar on September 29, 2011 at 12 p.m. EST
Price: $40.00 $28.00 (You save 30%) 
OCTOBER FEATURE
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was history's most celebrated urban critic and a tireless advocate of vibrant city neighborhoods. Her career spanned seven decades, and her observations about cities, economies, and the values that underpin them have had an enduring impact on many fields, including architecture, urban planning and design, entrepreneurship, ecological economics, energy policy, historical preservation, sociology, and science. Distinguished urban scholar and Jacobs friend, Mary Rowe, will share insights on Jacobs' work and discuss the key tenets of Jacobs' work and legacy examining their implications for those involved in the green building industry.
Price: $30.00 $21.00 (You save 30%) 
Learn more in the USGBC members webinar on October 26, 2011 at 12 p.m. ET.
NOVEMBER FEATURE
Peter H. Gleick is President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, and one of the world's foremost experts on freshwater. Since 1998, he has co-authored the biennial The World's Water series, which comprehensively examines critical global trends in freshwater resources. In this discussion, he will the newest volume including the state of the world's water, US water policy, the effects of fossil fuel production on water resources, corporate water management, the implications involved in transboundary water issues and climate change as well as the challenges in China regarding water and dams.
Price: $35.00 $24.50 (You save 30%)
Learn more in the USGBC members webinar on November 29, 2011 at 12 p.m. ET.
DECEMBER FEATURE
Price: $35.00 $24.50 (You save 30%)
Price: $35.00 $24.50 (You save 30%)
Just like any other aspect of a city, transportation must be carefully designed to be effective and profitable. In this panel, transit experts will discuss key factors that determine the success or failure of any transportation system. Moderated by Tim Halbur, managing editor of Planetizen, this session will feature a dialogue and debate with transit experts Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, and Darrin Nordahl, author of My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation. It will explore the design and aesthetics of transportation focusing on how to transportation systems can be better designed for urban issues, how they function, why they are successful, and how they can offer not only convenience but improve a community.
Learn more on this topic and join the discussion in a USGBC members only webinar on December 14, 2011 at 12 p.m. ET.
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Making Healthy Places
