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1. Green Labels
Greening your life – with a focus on your
career

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3. Green Standards
 Organic – food
 EnergyStar –
appliances and houses
 LEED – buildings and
people
 FSC – wood products
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4. Green Building Rating Systems
For For buildings? Software Commercial or Hands on
professionals? training Residential Training?
BPI Y N N Residential Y
RESNET Y Y Y Residential Y
LEED Y Y N Commercial N
(mostly)
EnergyStar N Y N Residential N
National Green Y Y N Residential N
Building
Standard
Passive House Y Y Y! All types N
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5. Green Jobs
 Many “green” jobs are existing jobs, updated
for the new economy
 Construction-relatedjobs
 Manufacturing-related jobs
 Auto-worker
 Utility
 Many of the skills required for these jobs are
also standardized using accreditations
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6. LEED
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7. LEED Accreditation
Legacy
LEED AP
“LEED Green Associate”
requirements:
Experience on one LEED-registered project
OR work in field of sustainability (or previous
employment)
OR proof of completion of green building
education, like an exam prep course
AND pass 2-hour LEED GA exam
Must complete 15 hrs. of CE every two
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8. Building Performance Institute
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A national resource for building
science technology that sets
standards for assessing and
improving home energy
Est 1993 first Cert in 1996
Uses the house-as-a-system
approach to assessing a home
Is the required certification for many
Home Performance with Energy Star
Programs HPwES
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9. BPI Specialties
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Fundamentals ---------------------------------- Intermediate Level Specialties -----------------------------------
Certification Manufactured
Building Analyst Envelope / Shell Heating A/C or Heat Pump
Name Housing
Manufactured housing
A/C heat or heat pump
Core Envelope systems and systems and their Heating systems and
Buildings and their systems and their
their interaction with other interaction with other their interaction with other
Curriculum Systems interaction with other
building systems manufactured housing building systems
building systems
systems
Optimizing building Optimizing manufactured Optimizing Optimizing A/C and heat
Analyzing Building envelope systems and housing systems and heatingsystems and their pump systems and their
Optimization Systems their interaction with their interaction with interaction with building interaction with building
building systems building systems systems systems
Reference
BPI standards and Project Specifications
Standards
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10. RESNET Standards
 Recognized for
 Accreditation of rating providers, rater training
providers, and rating software tools
 Verification of energy savings for energy efficient
mortgages (EEMs)
 Verification of a home's energy performance for EPA's
ENERGY STAR Homes Program and the Department
of Energy’s Building America Program
 Performance option for energy code compliance in 16
states
 Verification of energy performance in state utility
benefit program funded residential energy efficiency
programs in 9 states
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11. HERS Index
The HERS Reference Home sets the
standard at 100.
Homes that are more efficient than the
standard will score lower on the scale. For
each percentage point that the home in
question is more efficient than the reference
home, the home is rated 1 point lower on the
scale.
Energy Star homes score
an 85 or lower (80 or lower
in Northern climate zones)
Builder’s
Challenge
homes score a
70 or lower
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12. NABCEP
 North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners
 Install, design and sell solar photovoltaic systems, solar
thermal, and small wind
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13. IGSHPA
 International Ground Source Heat Pump
Association
 Certify ground source heat pump installers and
drillers
Images from
Igshpa.okstate.edu
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14. Energy auditor
Carpenters, BPI and/or
or residential
Electricians, RESNET
retrofit
HVAC Laborers training
contractor
Architects,
Engineers, Green Commercial
Electricians, Real Estate project
Carpenters, LEED Certification design, finance,
Lawyers, Real management,
Estate Agents, etc construction
Machinists,
sheet metal, iron Wind Turbine
Wind Energy
and steel Installer and
Certification
workers, technician
engineers
Electricians,
laborers, contractors, Solar PV & Solar Solar power installer
electrical engineers, Thermal Certification and technician
welders
Plumbers, architects, Ground source heat
IGSHPA Training
civil engineers pump installation
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15. For Career Starters or Changers
 If you’re entering a 2 or 4 year program, there
are a number of green careers in the fields of:
 Agriculture
 Biotech
 Construction
 Energy
 Naturalresources management
 Advocacy
 Transportation
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16. Green Your Job
 Realtor
 Janitor
 Teacher
 Hotelier
 Dog walker
 Lawyer, accountant, small business owner…
any job can be greened.
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