USGBC-LA's 7th ANNUAL GREEN GALA
November 3, 2011 • JW Marriott at L.A. Live • 5:30pm Cocktail Reception • 6:30pm Dinner and Awards Ceremony
The theme of the 2011 Green Gala is “Branching Out,” reflecting the Chapter’s broadened focus on engaging new members and communities beyond the building industry who have sustainable initiatives, information and goals that are parallel to that of the nonprofit USGBC.
Additionally, due to the size and diversity of land and population issues that the Los Angeles Chapter faces, the Chapter engages its constituents on a hyper-local level via “branches” which include San Gabriel Valley, Long Beach, Westside and the newest branch, South Bay.
This year’s Green Gala features the premier installment of the USGBC-LA Sustainable Innovation Awards and Keynote Speaker, Jason McLennan, CEO of the International Living Future Institute. The event is an excellent opportunity to network and gain brand visibility, with over 400 attendees anticipated. Participating organizations include Southern California Edison, AEG, Gensler, Glumac, Morley Builders among others.
2011 SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AWARDS
This year USGBC-LA will be launching its Sustainable Innovation Awards at the Gala, recognizing exceptional achievements in each LEED category for county-wide certified projects from the past two years. The awards program offer prestige, notoriety and affirmation of you and your project team’s commitment to a sustainable built environment.
Unlike standardized LEED rating systems, the Sustainable Innovation Awards will evaluate merit based upon sustainable strategies that demonstrate exemplary performance by going above and beyond LEED credit achievement.
KEYNOTE: JASON McLENNAN
Considered one of the most influential individuals in the green building movement today, Jason F. McLennan’s work has made a strong impact on the shape and direction of green building in the United States and Canada and he is a much sought after presenter and consultant on a wide variety of green building and sustainability topics around the world.
McLennan serves as the CEO of the International Living Future Institute – a leading NGO that focuses on the transformation to a world that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. Under the Living Future Umbrella, Jason operates the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest’s leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development, The Natural Step USA and Ecotone Publishing. Jason is the founder and creator of the Living Building Challenge, widely considered the world’s most progressive and stringent green building program. His work in the sustainable design field has been published or reviewed in dozens of journals, magazines conference proceedings and books including Time Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, Architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Plenty, Metropolis, NY Times, The Globe and Mail, The World and I, Ecostructure, Greensource, Arcade and Environmental Design and Construction Magazine. He is the author of four books; The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, The Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection, The Ecological Engineer and Zugunruhe. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design has been used as a textbook in over seventy universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
