Greenbuild 2018 in Chicago

by Mallory Budy | November 19th, 2018

Each November, the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo touches down in a different U.S. city for the better part of a week, showering green-thinking around the expo location, certainly – but also to all corners of its host city. Hosted by the USGBCand Informa Exhibitions and billed as the world’s largest conference dedicated to sustainability in the built environment, its wings have grown just as the sustainability movement itself has grown. The 2018 edition of Greenbuild welcomed 33,000 visitors and local Chicagoans to the McCormick Place Conference Center in Chicago. The conference’s 2018 theme was extremely timely – “Human By Nature”, styled as“Human x Nature: The Intersection of Humanity & The Built Environment.The past five years in particular have seen the sustainability conversation expand its reach into more holistic sustainability visioning, planning and execution, and the Human x Nature theme speaks directly to that shift. A Human x NatureTheme: The …