Shelby Buso Director of USGBC/Georgia with an environmental law background.

<h2>Shelby Buso Director of USGBC/Georgia with an environmental law background.</h2> <p><strong>Shelby Buso</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the Director at USGBC Georgia, and has been with the USGBC since July 2016. She holds a Juris Doctor and Masters of Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. Shelby is passionate about improving and continuing the green building movement.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“USGBC is more than just LEED now...everyday there is a new program that we have to learn very quickly” Shelby Buso on the importance of tying all certifications under one umbrella.</span></em></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Travel Inspires her</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shelby was on track for an anthropology degree and that gave her the opportunity to study abroad in places like Puerto Rico and New Zealand. She had taken a lot of bio classes thinking she might take a pre-med track. Then organic chemistry happened and she ended up creating her own major in environmental studies.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In New Zealand, Shelby found it amazing to study in a country that actually had environmental protections as a constitutional right.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Building Movement Progression</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of the universities in Georgia such as Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia have really made campus life commitments to green building and be a leader in the industry because they see that as a learning tool as well.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Away from the local Georgia area, KSU and Agnes Scott have partnered to construct a Leed certified building. Georgia USGBC has a great tool, Leed Lab, that enables KSU to partner with Agnes Scott for a student led construction of a Leed certified building on the Agnes Scott Campus. This is the first partnership of its kind and provides students with real world exper