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CxEnergy Virtual, April 6 - April 29
(Washington, DC, February 16, 2021) CxEnergy, the premier industry event in commissioning, energy management and building diagnostics, was originally set for April in Fort Worth, TX, but had to be can
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Free Webinar: ADU Planning and Best Practice, March 5, 9-12 pm
In an effort to alleviate the States housing crisis, California passed a series of laws to allow homeowners to utilize their lots for building accessory dwelling units. This session aims to provide gu
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Explore the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax incentives on affordable housing in this comprehensive workshop.
With a focus on practical implementation, learn how IRA tax credits ca
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Celebrate BE-Ex! A Decade of Excellence, January 31, New York, NY, 6 - 9pm
On January 31, commemorate the 10+ year anniversary of the Building Energy Exchange (BE-Ex), celebrate their recent awards, achievements, and recognize the exceptional individuals who have contributed
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Net Zero buildings are carbon neutral structures that integrate hyper-efficiency with renewable technologies. They are at the cutting edge of sustainable design, and a key strategy for policymakers ad
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Free 21 Acres Green Building Tour, December 9, Woodinville, WA
Curious about how renewable energy technologies and green buildings contribute to climate action? You will get a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and technologies utilized by our LEED Platinum-cert
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Financing is an essential step in the journey to emissions reduction, turning great decarbonization ideas into actionable plans. Join this webinar to learn from Financial Allies on how to le
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BE-Ex’s Women in Sustainability & Energy (WISE) series is pleased to host a networking lunch, connecting emerging and industry-transitioning professionals with seasoned experts from across e
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This class shows designers, specifiers, contractors, and homeowners how to create beautiful residential lighting while saving energy and meeting code. Award-winning lighting designer David Wilds Patto
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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2021, a Virtual Event, May 20
The program for this virtual event includes access to education sessions, live webinar keynote, and to the sustainable products webinars. This also includes unlimited rewatching access for the educati
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Webinar: Home Composting for Zero Waste, April 20, 7 pm EDT
Home composting is easier than people might think. Most of the work is done by nature’s composting work force (decomposers). All we have to do is feed them our food scraps and yard waste, give t
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Free Virtual Workshop Series: Building Retrofit, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11
The energy performance of the existing UK housing stock is generally very poor and an extensive retrofit programme that utilises the most energy efficient technologies and practices is the only forese
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Free CE Webinar: All About Ducted Mini Splits, April 7, 12 pm EDT
This session is a follow up to "Introduction to Fully Ducted Heat Pumps for All Electric Heating & Cooling." It reviews different types of ducted indoor units, the special design conside
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Green Jobs: Current and Future Trends in DC on August 17
Join for the fourth Annual Green Jobs event on Thursday, August 17th, 6-8:30 pm. They're bringing together green job seekers and providers of green jobs. They will focus on current market and future…
Webinar: Low-Tech Farm Hacks and DIY Infrastructure, March 1, 7 pm EST
Starting a vegetable farm can be very expensive but some easy DIY projects can cut your costs significantly. Lisa Helm will share practical tricks she’s picked up from her experience founding th
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Affordable Housing is a Climate Solution is a 4-part webinar series that MCAN is co-hosting with the Boston Society for Architecture. The goal of this series is to start building a community of advoca
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Free Webinar: Do Heat Pumps Save Energy and Increase Home Value? January 20, 11 am EST
Electrifying most fossil-fuel-burning applications provides a pathway to achieving cost-effective deep decarbonization of the economy. Heat pumps offer a feasible and energy-efficient way to electrify
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TRUE - A New Rating System Administered by GBCI
Green Business Certification Inc. (GCBI) recently introduced its new brand identity for its zero waste rating system known as TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency). The TRUE Zero Waste certificatio
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Resilient Architecture And Urbanism, April 10-12, Groningen, Netherlands
Our attitudes, business models, products, services and actions related to the design, build, maintenance and transformation of our Built Environments have to change fundamentally. New build, renovatio…
4th Annual WCS Talks, Women in Cleantech & Sustainability, Saturday, November 4, Mountain View
WCS Talks is a TED Style event featuring the brightest minds and most inspiring stories of the clean economy metamorphosis occurring all over the world. The annual event features both women and men fr…
The 17th annual SyracuseCoE Symposium, Water + Energy + Design: Innovations for Healthy, Vibrant Communities will feature presentations by keynote speakers, Faculty Fellows, and collaborating research…
USGBC-LA's new blog post: The Eclipse
"Where were you on Monday? Did you block time on your calendar between 9:45 and 10:30am to make sure you could take a peak at the solar eclipse? If you’re like me, I was checking the weather and ask…
Tesla built three battery storage plants and they accounted for 15 percent of the battery storage installed planet-wide last year. It's fair to say that just one of these plants would be the largest s…
Electric utilities today must contain costs at a time when many need to modernize aging systems and all face major changes in technologies, customer preferences and competitive pressures. Most U.S…
Waste Reduction & Plastic Free Living, July 25
GreenMichigan.org – along with Harmony Hall – hosts a monthly workshop series on various sustainable topics. This month we will be discussing waste reduction and plastic free living. Join us to le…
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