Why Attend Greenbuild 2024?
Greenbuild hosts the largest annual event for green building professionals worldwide where attendees learn and source solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life in our buildings, cities, and communities. The Greenbuild 2024 event will take place November 12-15, 2024, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. Join us as we imagine how to create more than just LEED-certified structures.
Together, we’ll learn how to build:
- Greener communities
- Better workplaces
- Social equity
- New sustainable solutions
- And so much more!
20 Things You’ll Get from Attending Greenbuild 2024
New Thinking, New Ideas, New Case Studies, New Experiences, New Change-Makers!
- Insights into the future of sustainable development, not just brick-and-mortar, everything from transportation systems to health-related solutions to community-wide programming.
- A first look at unique game-changing products and services, business and consumer solutions, technologies, and breakthrough ideas.
- Connections with thousands of decision-makers, mentors, and peers.
- Hundreds of thought-leaders who educate and inspire.
- Stories about entire neighborhoods embracing sustainability.
- Opportunities for self-development and upskilling, plus CEU credits!
- Pathways to new career possibilities.
- Diversity, inclusion and social equity among all participants.
- Interactive social events and curated experiences to foster meaningful relationships.
- Empowerment to influence sustainability initiatives in your own organization.
- Behind-the-scenes view of how communities in Philadelphia are building better.
- Technologies to measure the impact of your actions.
- Avenues to secure capital for your sustainability projects.
- Students and emerging professionals; access to talent across all generations.
- Cross-functional expertise, from architects and mega construction companies to government and business leaders.
- Continuous digital content before and after the event.
- Visionary yet practical approaches to take back to your business; group discounts and spaces for team meetings.
- Perspectives on how the movement has grown and what’s coming next.
- Memorable experiences that you won’t find at other live gatherings.
- Collaborative problem-solving that will lead to a brighter future.
Are you ready to experience the transformation of the movement and join us at Greenbuild this year? Check out the pass options and feel free to use the promo code ISSPEXPO for a free attendee expo pass.
Read perspectives from the ISSP blog
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April 2026 I walked away from a recent webinar with a lingering thought: we’ve spent years improving supply chains, but very little time truly rethinking them. Most of the systems we rely on today were built for efficiency - to move goods faster, cheaper, at scale. And to be fair, they’ve done that remarkably well. But they were never designed for the complexity we’re now facing: climate volatility, geopolitical and tariff uncertainty, water stress, soil degradation, and widening inequities across supply chains. So what do we do? We add layers - more audits, more reporting, more standards. Necessary? Yes. Sufficient? Not really. The deeper issue is not performance - it’s creating healthy conditions for design and structure. What I’m seeing instead, and what I believe is the real shift underway, is the move toward regenerative partnerships . Not transactional relationships, but systems of collaboration that are designed to endure, adapt, and regenerate value over time through and with relational relationships.
March 23, 2026 I spend a lot of time thinking about how we teach sustainability. Not just the what , but the how and why . At TripleWin Advisory , a woman-founded, -owned, and -led sustainability consultancy and registered public benefit company, we believe real progress on circularity requires more than good intentions. It requires practitioners who are genuinely equipped to act. That conviction is what led us to develop two courses now available through ISSP: Cultivate and Mitigate . Both courses have since been adopted by universities and are reaching sustainability students across the country. Knowing what went into building them makes me want to share the story behind each one. Mitigate: Built From Practice, Not Textbooks Mitigate was created from hands-on work with partners tackling one of the most pressing issues in sustainability: food waste. Reducing food waste is consistently ranked among the highest-impact solutions to climate change, and yet it remains one of the most underfunded and under-addressed areas in the field. TripleWin Advisory has worked with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC) , a public-private partnership whose frameworks were ultimately adopted at the national level. Those assets, that research, and those hard-won insights form the backbone of Mitigate. When we talk about food waste reduction strategies in this course, we're drawing on frameworks that have been tested and refined in real supply chains and policy environments. For learners who want to do this work professionally, that grounding matters. The University of Wisconsin has integrated Mitigate into their undergraduate and graduate sustainability programs, which speaks to what the course offers academically: rigorous, applied content that bridges the classroom and the field.