Checking in with 'g' about last week's NESEA Building Energy Conference

'g' spent the middle of last week parked at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston at the NESEA Building Energy 2010 green building conference. It is always an exciting event: so many people in the green industry gathering together to learn and share insight and innovation all in the name of green building and energy and resource conservation.

We had wanted to tell you all about the highlights of the conference, but due to the high traffic, we hardly left our trade show booth! Instead, we've decided to reflect on the mission and importance of NESEA's Building Energy Conference, its role in green building, and how it mirrors that of 'g' Green Design Center.

Reduce, Retrofit, Renew. That was the mantra of the conference this year (seen on NESEA's Building Energy Conference logo, left), and we could not be happier. Those three words directly relate to the work of the 'g' Green Design Center and what we envision: the number one principal in green building is conservation first. Reducing waste of energy through conservation efforts, retrofitting existing buildings to save as many resources as possible, and renewing "expired" resources to give them a new life will all help make the world greener and move to put us on a better track.

That being said, we left energized and excited from the conversations we had and the people we met who are already in or interested in joining the green building and design world. A big thank you to those of you who stopped at our booth and chatted, and added to the conference energy and our experience, yet again.