Keep up with green building trends

Green commercial buildings have competitive advantages and stronger valuations. Trends like energy efficiency are quickly becoming the norm. The new ideas and financial incentives just keep coming. How do you keep up with trends and ideas in sustainable building?

Get the Building Priorities Briefing, a valuable new audio series from Energy Priorities magazine that keeps commercial building owners, developers and managers up to date with green building.

Whether you're interested in sustainable buildings, or energy independence, the Building Priorities Briefing brings the essential information to your PC or MP3 player starting January 16, 2008.

Quick-paced, all-business information

In 15 minutes a month you'll get a no-nonsense briefing on current developments. You'll learn which trends to pay attention to and what questions to ask.

You'll be better equipped to make informed decisions about energy-efficient features, self-funding upgrades and on-site energy production.

Typical show format:

• 7-minute profile of a green building, with an interview or audio tour
  
• 2-minute explanation of a key concept in green building
  
• 3 minutes of news or an expert interview
  
• Listener comments and questions

"Who better to trust about sustainable building than Energy Priorities, the online magazine that's been bringing great ideas about smart energy to business readers since 2004."

* It's free, period

Not a trial, not a tease, no spam, just free. (We promised no nonsense, didn't we?) Energy Priorities e-mail subscribers need do nothing, you'll get the Briefing automatically.

Whether you're interested in sustainable buildings, or energy independence, the Building Priorities Briefing brings the essential information to your PC or MP3 player.

Transcripts will be posted online. They're free, too. We'll include photos and other visual media when available.

No engineer required

The Building Priorities Briefing is delivered in terms a busy manager can understand, without the techie talk.

The Briefing focuses on what's possible today with "state-of-the-shelf" technology -- no Buzz Lightyear lab experiments, no pleas to save the polar bears, just bottom-line reality.

Who should subscribe?

Building owners, REIT executives, developers, property managers, facility managers, brokers, sustainable designers, architects, government officials, university chancellors. Anyone is welcome to subscribe, including journalists, engineers, investors, manufacturers and policymaker staff.

Suggest topics and guests

Are you doing something energy-smart with your property? Know someone who is? Contact us with your ideas and suggestions.

Briefing Calendar

We release a Briefing on the second Wednesday of each month, with a winter and a summer break.

Distribution

• BuildingPriorities.com
• EnergyPriorities.com
• iTunes
• E-mail
• RSS feeds
• Collaborative publications
• Podcast aggregation sites & directories

Trailer announcing the Briefings

Listen to the announcement (2-minute mp3)
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Music by Alexander Blu