Green Business/Building

Certification
Jason Nelson
Shirlee Rosen
Jessica Somohano
Eva Wu

What is a Green Business?

Strives for Positive Impact:
Environment
Community

Business strategies

Go beyond regulation
Demonstrate commitment
to a healthy & sustainable
future

Improve quality of life for

its customers and
employees
Principles
Policies
Practices
Increases Efficiency
Energy
Water
Material usage

How to get Certified GREEN

Private Organization
Non-Profit green building certification
organization
Top Certification Organizations:
Green America
LEED

Green America
CERTIFICATION
leaders in the green business field and
certified under Green Americas
standards
Certified GOLD
Go above and beyond our
standards

Green America Standards

Positive social change

Committed Practices
Benefit Workers
Customers
Communities
Environment

Values-Driven Enterprise
Social Justice
Environmental Sustainability
Environmentally Responsible
Source
Manufacture
Marketing Products

Accountable
Improving & tracking
progress

(Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)

Positive Impact
Transforms the way we think
Recognizes best in class building strategies and practices
Satisfy prerequisites & earn credits to achieve different
levels of certification

5 LEED Rating Systems

Building Design & Construction
Interior Design & Construction
Operations & Maintenance
Neighborhood Development
Homes

4 Certification Levels

CERTIFIED
SILVER
GOLD
PLATINUM

LEED Points
How are LEED points granted?
Regional priority
Innovation
Indoor environmental quality
Water efficiency
Energy & atmosphere
Sustainable sites
Materials & resources
Location & transportation

PROS:
Future of environment &
planet
Risk management
Human resources
Brand differentiation &
publicity
Business licensing

Costs, savings &

investment
The green market
Economies of scale
Society and charities
Education and public
awareness
The FEEL GOOD factor

CONS:
Small costs
Long term investment cost
Certification costs
Co-operation
Effort and dedication

UC SYSTEM POLICY:
All new construction and major renovation projects must
meet a minimum standard of LEED
By 2020:
Reduce Greenhouse gases
Achieve zero waste
Purchase 20% sustainable food
Reduce water consumption by 20%

What UC DAVIS Does

Design new buildings to meet:
Exceed energy efficiency standards of CA Energy
At least 20%
Campus DC food purchase
20% are local
Certified Organic or meet other
approved criteria

UC DAVIS TOP COOLEST SCHOOL

in 2012: We were #1!
diverted around 70% of our trash from
landfills
on any given day 20000 bikes roam
campus

 in 2013: Ranked #4
Research that helps shape CA water laws
Pushed new farming practices mainstream
West Village
Americas biggest planned zero-net-energy
community
Climate action plan
Cut campus emissions to below 2000 levels
Diverted 60% of would be trash from landfills
Goal is 100% by 2020

Other UC Campus Strategies...

UC IRVINE #1 coolest in 2014
All buildings certified w/
at least a LEED Silver
Meatless Mondays, Weigh the Waste
events and the labeling of entrees
carbon foodprints have been
instituted.

UC SANTA BARBARA
in 2013 ranked #10 coolest
44 buildings are LEED certified
47% of academic departments offer a class about sustainability
50% of food served is local
75% of waste gets saved via recycling/composting
goal is 100% by 2020
40% of produce purchases are grown within 150 miles of campus
24% of produce purchases are organically grown & USDA-certified

Strategies from the Environmental

Protection Agency
Holistic systems approach for building design,
renovation and maintenance
Recycling of building materials upon demolition
Careful site planning that uses natural resources
Use of recycled content for building materials

More EPA strategies

Water conservation measures
Alternative work methods such as telecommuting and
teleconferencing
Limitation of energy and material waste throughout the
buildings life-span
EPA uses LEED for new construction and ENERGY STAR

Discussion Time
How long has the green building movement
been around?
How do Green buildings improve upon
natural resource usage?
What is the impact on climate change?

Go Green!

www.usgbc.org/leed

References

www.epa.gov/greeningepa/projects/
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/green-business.html#ixzz3GyqX3g7i
http://www.earthshare.org/greening-business.html
http://www.greenamerica.org/greenbusiness/certification.cfm
http://sustainability.universityofcalifornia.edu/policy.html
http://sustainability.universityofcalifornia.edu/documents/cefeasibility.pdf
http://vault.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-coolschools-university-california-santa-barbara-10.aspx
http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/uc-irvine-is-no-1-coolest-school-in-nation/