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• USGBC - It's All in the Marketing!  (Oct. '09)

• Engaging Hearts and Minds to Solve Problems (Sept. '09)

• Green Building Can Do Better - A lot better (April 2009)

• Is FSC the Apple of my eye? (Oct.'08)

• Green Building Blues: Is Wood Getting A Raw Deal? (Sept.'08)
  

• Reader Response: Life Cycle Assessment – Is Its Potential Being Overstated? (July '08)
  

• In Choosing Windows for Green Building, Old News is Good News! (June '08)
  

• Buying Local Versus Imported Food: Don't Throw the Baby Out With The Bath! (Jan. '08)
  

• Some Do's and Don'ts in Picking Green Products (Sept. '07)
  

• The Future is Here! Why We Can't Live Without Nanotechnology, Solar Power and Carbon Fiber Mats (July '07)
  

• To be green or not to be green (April '07)
  

• Sustainable Forests: Are we there yet? (March '07)
  

• What Do Consumer Demands Have to Do With the Market for "Green?" (Feb.'07)
  

• The Real Meaning of Team (Jan.'07)
  

• Providing the New Congress with the Greatest Power in the Universe (Nov.'06)
  

• Simply impatient, or just an average customer? Surviving the drive-thru mentality of consumption (Oct.'06)

• Seeing double, a tale of two visions: Getting past fears and enabling sustainable behaviors (Aug.'06)
  

• Looking Controversy in the Eye: The Debate Over the Certification of National Forests (June'06)
  

• Market-based Certification Systems: Addressing the real interests of the market (May '06)

• Implementing Diversity; Avoiding 1 + 1 = .....1 Benefiting from Gender, Age and Personality Differences (March '06)
  

• Grieve; Get Over It, and Get Going: Facing Organizational Change (Feb.'06)
  

• The Survey Results Are In: It's time for 10,000 voices to be heard! (Jan.'06)
  

• A National New Year's Resolution: Can American Consumers Make Real Change? (Dec.'05)
  

• Voluntary Environmental Certification: Is Regulation the Answer? (Nov.'05)
  

• Beyond Forest Certification: Take Our Survey and Give Your Input (Oct.'05)
  

• What a Caveman Would Tell Today's Wood Industry: Running the Numbers on Value-Added (Sept.'05)
  

• Making Flutes From Sticks: Getting off the commodity treadmill (Aug.'05)
  

• Baseball, Cowboy Hats, and Marketing 101: Fitting products to customer needs (July '05)
  

• I'm Feeling Guilty - and I'm Not Catholic: The darker side of recycling (May '05)
  

• What Green Building has to do with Ants at a Picnic and a Billion Chinese: The opportunities USGBC & LEED offer the wood industry (April '05)
  

• Adding Value & Getting Your Coconuts: The value of middlemen (March '05)
  

• When 1 + 1 = 3! The issue of conflict resolution (Feb.'05)
  

• Making Sure LEED® Leads: Feedback on the green building standards (Jan.'05)
  

• Green Customer Service: Serving customers in the green marketplace (Dec.'04)
  

• Keeping Wood Green: Wood as an environmentally-friendly product (Nov.'04)