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Think Green Build Green Presentation
1. Think Green, Build Green
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Campus, Queretaro
April 20, 2012
Robert J. Kobet, AIA
President, LEED Faculty
The Kobet Collaborative
bob@bobkobet.com
www.bobkobet.com
8. Writing our Business Plan
with Mr. Loren
So, if you want to increase your
profitability what can you do?
Tell Jack not to eat so
many strawberries
when we’re picken’
‘em!
Make our pots out of
recycled containers so we
don’t have to buy them.
10. Making the TIME for Kids Cover
(4,000,000 copies worldwide)
The Pine Jog kids cleared
over$2000 the first year
1/3 of the produce went home
1/3 of the produce went to
support the garden program
1/3 went to a local food bank
The program is so successful it is
being expanded to all new
schools and several existing
schools by request
No one ever made Time
Magazine
for cutting grass.
80% of students who drop out of K12
programs have passing grades; they
simply don’t want to be in school.
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14. Vision for the YMP
Available for free
for young people everywhere!
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18. Building Program*
• Discharge no waste water, i.e.
drinking water in, drinking water out
• Generate more electricity than it uses
• No materials that are
carcinogenic, mutagenic or endocrine
disrupters
• Use energy and materials efficiently
• Sustainably manufactured materials
• Landscape to promote biodiversity
• Promote ecological competence and
be mindful of place
• Be genuinely pedagogical in design
and operation
• Meet rigorous requirements for full
cost accounting
Adam Joseph Lewis Center The Nature of Design –
Oberlin College Ecology, Culture and Human
Intention David Orr
19. “ In short, we have an obligation to equip our
students to do the hard work ahead of… .* ”
• learning to power civilization by current sunlight
• reducing the amount of materials, water,
and land use per capita
• growing food and fiber sustainably
• eliminating the concept of waste
• preserving biological diversity
• restoring ecologies ruined in the past century
• rethinking the political basis of modern society
• developing economies that can be sustained
within the limits of nature
• distributing wealth fairly within and
between generations
* The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture
and Human Intention David Orr
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23. Vision for the YMP
Available for free
for young people everywhere!
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27. Building Program*
• Discharge no waste water, i.e.
drinking water in, drinking water out
• Generate more electricity than it uses
• No materials that are carcinogenic,
mutagenic or endocrine disrupters
• Use energy and materials efficiently
• Sustainably manufactured materials
• Landscape to promote biodiversity
• Promote ecological competence and
be mindful of place
• Be genuinely pedagogical in design
and operation
• Meet rigorous requirements for full
cost accounting
The Nature of Design – Ecology,
Adam Joseph Lewis Center Culture and Human Intention
Oberlin College David Orr
28. “ In short, we have an obligation to equip our
students to do the hard work ahead of… .* ”
• learning to power civilization by current sunlight
• reducing the amount of materials, water,
and land use per capita
• growing food and fiber sustainably
• eliminating the concept of waste
• preserving biological diversity
• restoring ecologies ruined in the past century
• rethinking the political basis of modern society
• developing economies that can be sustained
within the limits of nature
• distributing wealth fairly within and
between generations
* The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture
and Human Intention David Orr
