Greenbuild includes over 100 educational sessions featuring world renown speakers, LEED workshops, off-site educational sessions, and Green Building tours of local Boston sites. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available for all educational sessions, LEED workshops, green building tours, and post conference seminars. (USGBC is a registered educational program provider for AIA/CES, ASID/IIDA, BOMI, and IFMA.)

 

2008 Opening Keynote Address

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Wednesday, Nov. 19th, 8:00am

ArchBishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Laureate, lead a crusade for social justice and racial conciliation in South Africa as then-General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. Today, he is revered worldwide as a “moral voice” seeking to end poverty and human rights abuses.

Tutu’s many accomplishments include receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism; and the Magubela prize for liberty in 1986. He is committed to stopping global AIDS and has served as the honorary chairman for the Global AIDS Alliance. In February 2007 he was awarded Gandhi Peace Prize by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, president of India.