BALLE 2011 Pre-Conference interview with speaker Jason McLennan.

Jason F. McLennan,
CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council and the International Living Building Institute

Considered one of the most influential individuals in the green building movement today, Jason F. McLennan’s work has made a strong impact on the shape and direction of green building in the United States and Canada and he is a much sought after presenter and consultant on a wide variety of green building and sustainability topics around the world.

McLennan serves as the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest’s leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development and he is also the CEO of the International Living Building Institute. He is the founder and creator of the Living Building Challenge, an international green building program. His work in the sustainable design field has been published or reviewed in dozens of journals, magazines conference proceedings and books including Architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Plenty, Metropolis, NY Times, The Globe and Mail, The World and I, Ecostructure, Greensource, Arcade and Environmental Design and Construction Magazine. He is the author of four books; The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, The Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection, The Ecological Engineer and Zugunruhe. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design is currently used as a textbook in over seventy universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Read this article written by Jason for Yes! Magazine. Or watch this video of a speech he delivered at the Living Future 2010 Conference.