GLOBAL GREEN USA FALL NEWSLETTER 

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - George Campbell Jr., President - Green Building Design Award 

Sebastian Copeland - Explorer, Photographer, Advocate - Founders Award 

PG&E Corporation - Peter A. Darbee, Chairman, President and CEO - Corporate Design Award 

Terry Tamminen and Bonnie Reiss - Partners, Pegasus Sustainable Century Merchant Bank - Policy Design Award

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Habitat-NYC Families Receive Keys to New, Affordable, Eco-Friendly Homes in Brooklyn

On September 26, 41 low-income New York City families received the keys to their new Habitat for Humanity - New York City homes in a joyful celebration in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn.

The ribbon-cutting marked an historic first for Habitat-NYC: This is the largest and greenest multifamily complex ever built by a Habitat affiliate in the nation. These 41 affordable green condominiums are expected to receive LEED Gold certification, one of the highest green building ratings.

Global Green USA has been assisting Habitat-NYC on this project since 2005, beginning with early visioning work and green technical assistance that continued through design and construction. Global Green has partnered with Habitat for Humanity affiliates throughout the country for more than 15 years to help create energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly homes that are affordable to build and operate. Learn More 
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Two More Homes Completed at the Holy Cross Project in New Orleans

Two more single-family homes have been completed at the Holy Cross Project in the Lower Ninth Ward and are now on the market!

The homes are built to LEED Platinum certification and have all the sustainable and energy-efficiency features of the first house, currently serving as the Visitor Center. The homes will save an estimated 70% a year in utility costs.

You can view the real-time solar energy consumption and production of the first house in the Holy Cross project through our Building Dashboard(R),a monitoring tool that is both in the house, and online.



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CoRR and Starbucks Launch Paper Cup Recycling Pilot

In September, seven Starbucks stores in Manhattan launched a cup-recycling program in cooperation with Global Green USA’s Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR). The pilot will test the collection and recycling of coffee cups when combined with old corrugated cardboard (OCC), which is the most extensively recycled material in the U.S. The objective of the program is to develop a cost-effective mechanism to close the loop on paper packaging, reducing greenhouse gases and assisting municipalities in reaching their solid waste diversion goals.

Every year, 58 billion paper cups are used in the U.S. at restaurants, events, and homes. If all paper cups in the U.S. were recycled, 645,000 tons of waste would be diverted from landfills each year, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 million mtCO2e, equivalent to removing 450,000 passenger cars from the road. Learn More
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Home Energy Efficiency Bill to Save Money, Reduce Carbon Emissions

This month, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 758, legislation that will make existing buildings more energy efficient and less expensive to operate. The bill, sponsored by Global Green USA and authored by Assembly Member Nancy Skinner (D- Berkeley), will require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop an energy efficiency program for all existing residential and commercial buildings.

Energy use in buildings is the largest single global warming pollution source in the United States accounting for 48% of all greenhouse gas emissions nationally. AB 758 would require the California Energy Commission to establish a regulatory proceeding, by March 1, 2010, to develop and implement a comprehensive program to achieve energy savings in the existing residential and commercial building stock that falls significantly below current Title 24 building standards. The bill would also require the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), by January 1, 2011, to authorize each electrical corporation to provide a targeted number of low- or no-cost energy efficiency audits each calendar year. Learn More
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eBay Teams Up With GGUSA Board Member Zem Joaquin to Benefit Global Green

This fall, eBay’s Green Team champions a growing consumer mindset with their six-week “re+purpose” campaign. Re+purpose is designed to inspire people to make more sustainable shopping choices and increase awareness that the greenest products are often ones that already exist, whether vintage, used, or repurposed.

From November 4 - 19, the third and final phase of the fall campaign drives home the fact that reuse is cool — especially the “sexy, sustainable stuff” curated by Global Green Board member and creative DIY maven Zem Joaquin, ecofabulous.com’s founder and editor-in-chief. The eBay Green Team will hold a Creative Reuse Competition, a national call for the best examples of DIY projects – made from reused items – from around the country. For the duration of the collaboration, ebay.com/greenteam will feature custom content from Zem to serve as inspiration and will reward new and returning eBay Green Team members with $1 donated on their behalf to Global Green USA.

Bookmark this page and return on Nov 4!
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Two First Steps on Nuclear Weapons

THE NEW YORK TIMES. SEPT 25, 2009. By Mikhail Gorbachev

At their meeting in Moscow in early July, Presidents Obama and Medvedev reaffirmed the relationship between strategic offensive weapons and missile defense. The two nations continue arms reduction talks and, judging by cautious diplomatic statements, they seem to be on course to complete them by Dec. 5, when the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — which I signed with President George H. W. Bush in 1991 — is due to expire.

This week’s United Nations meeting marks the next stage of progress. It is vital that other nations come away from the meeting believing that America and Russia are moving toward verifiable nuclear arms reductions, and that by the time the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference is held at the United Nations next May, they will have made progress toward the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.

Read the full Article

HELP US WIN A $20,000 GRANT!

Vote Now for Global Green's Project in New Orleans 

Tom's of Maine is giving away five $20,000 grants to worth community projects. You can help our Build It Back Green Initiative in New Orleans win by voting TODAY and EVERY DAY thru Oct 30th.

How to Vote

1. Go to the Tom's of Maine Sponsorship Support for Community Projects page by clicking here. 

2. Click on the Environment tab

3. Search for the Global Green project titled "Home Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable New Orleans"

4. Click the Vote for this! button

5. Repeat daily!

VOTE NOW!

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ANNUAL MAYORAL HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION & JOBS SUMMIT

The Annual Mayoral Housing, Transportation & Jobs Summit takes place on Friday, October 30th, 7:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at UCLA Anderson School of Business’ Korn Convocation  Hall. The summit includes a comprehensive discussion addressing the relationship between housing, transportation and  jobs.

Includes Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Los Angeles Council President Eric Garcetti; Mercedes Márquez, Assistant Secretary, Community  Planning for the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD); and many others.

Download the registration form here

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 SOLAR POWER CONFERENCE 2009

Oct 27-29. Solar Power International is the largest U.S. business-to-business solar conference and expo. It features sessions on markets, policy, finance, and technology advances as well as 650+ exhibitors, and more than 25,000 attendees from 90 countries.

With top-notch keynote addresses, 200+ speakers, more than 65 breakout sessions and workshops, this is the premier place for expanding your business opportunities and networking with solar industry leaders.

SolarPowerInternational.com

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SUPPORT GREEN SCHOOLS TODAY!

With every green school, we are affecting the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of students and scores of teachers and administrators.

With your support, our efforts to create more healthy green schools that save money, improve students’ academic performance and health, and reduce CO2 emissions that cause global warming become a reality.

Green schools create green jobs today, while educating and inspiring kids about the green jobs of tomorrow.

Help by becoming  a Global Green member TODAY!

Watch our video about the importance of green schools.

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In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson (and Global Green Millennium Award Honoree) set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth.

Learn More & Purchase his newly published book

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