USGBC Heartland Award Winners

The USGBC Heartland Chapter Awards Jury is thrilled to announce the results! It was a very tough decision. All of these award winners submissions could be duplicated, if not in totality at least in part, by every chapter.

Grand Prize (*Prize: $500 from Mohawk – Special Thanks to Mohawk)
USGBC Nebraska Flatwater Chapter : Extremely innovative advocacy idea that will have a ripple effect across USGBC chapters as a best practice for green schools. This impacts not only our current generation but the future membership.

1. First Place (*Prize: Five USGBC Reference Guides) USGBC Illinois Chapter: The Urban Open community garden project is an exemplary community engagement and urban renewal project, with a very critical urban youth mentorship program. A notable tidbit: This project stemmed out of the Greening the Heartland 2005 Legacy Project.

2. Second Place (*Prize: Three USGBC Reference Guides - $450 value) The Chicago chapter received a grant from the Victoria Foundation for a regional green building case study. This project is one of the first post-occupancy studies to employ such a broad scope of metrics. It is also among the first to collect multiple years of post-occupancy data and provide ongoing analysis of initial participants while adding additional projects in subsequent years.

3. Third Place (*Prize: One USGBC Reference Guides - $150 value) – St. Louis Chapter recognized that clear and effective guidance on LEED CMP was needed and convened an Education Task force to get information out to their members. The chapter provides additional tools on their website and had great participation in their educational events.

4. HONORABLE MENTION (*Webinar of their choice delivered directly to their chapter by National Chapters Department)
*St. Louis High Performance Building Initiative and Higher Education Luncheons
*Minnesota Chapter Getting a Return on Green and Sustainable Communities Forum
*Central Plains Sustainable Communities Bright Futures, Kansas City Climate Sustainability Center Visioning, Greater Kansas City Plug-in Readiness Task Force and Government Policy Subgroup, and Green Impact Zone