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Wednesday, June 25 6:00 – 8:00 pm

  Member Non-member EGB
Cost $20.00 $25.00 $10.00

 

Hosted By: USGBC National Capital Region Chapter

Location: McKenna, Long and Aldridge, Attorneys at Law, Founder's Room, 1900 K St., NW, Washington, DC (Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North)

Registration Closed

The NCR chapter of the USGBC is trying to set the stage in this region to move toward carbon neutral neighborhoods. We have a Renewables Program and an Urban Challenge program scheduled for this fall to prepare our members for the National GreenBuild conference in Boston in November 2008. We will take the conversations and recommendations that occur in our chapter programs and submit them to the DC Mayor's Advisory Board for the Green Building Act and also submit them to the Metro Washington Council of Governments.

6:00-6:30 Networking and Cocktails

6:30-6:50 Carbon Policy

Peter Gray, Partner

McKenna, Long, and Aldridge

www.mckennalong.com

Current voluntary carbon market in the U.S.; carbon

policy on the Hill (Capitol Hill update); summary of

the Lieberman/McCain Climate Stewardship Act;

explanation of the draft Verified Emissions Reduction

Purchase & Sale agreement, and joint efforts by the

American Bar Association and the American Council on

Renewable Energy

6:50-7:10 Emissions Trading: Carbon Measurement,

Verification and Sale

John Palmisano

What are the scientific baselines from which to

measure carbon? What is the best baseline to use?

Who is authorized to be an independent verifier of

emissions reduction? Which one of the certification

programs is preferred? Which one of the registries is

applicable? How to sell GHG credits? Interaction

with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).

7:10-7:30 Carbon Neutral Development

Mark Turner, Greenspur,

www. greenspur.net and wwwCO2freeliving.com

A case study of plans to build carbon-neutral

homes in the region with partners:

Earth Conservation Corps www.ecc1.org

Cunningham & Quill www.cunninghamquill.com

VIKA www.vika.com

EMO Energy www.emoenergy.com

West Group www.west-group.com

ABDO Development www.abdo.com

TW Perry www.twperry.com

Charity Works www.charityworksdc.org

7:30-7:40 Comments on the Proposed USGBC LEED 2009

Recommendations

http://www.usgbc.org/displaypage.aspx?CMSPageID=1849

7:40-8:00 Q&A Session

7:30-8:00 Q & A