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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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RENEW Wisconsin Summit, February 6, Madison, Wisconsin
As Wisconsin’s energy landscape rapidly evolves, the need for sustainable, community-focused solutions has never been more pressing. “Powering Tomorrow: Collaborative Innovations for Thriv
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On the path to Zero Net Carbon Design, building electrification is the key to reducing operational carbon. In this course, they’ll share the nuts and bolts of incorporating all-electric systems
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Free Green Builder Media Webinar: 2024 State of the Industry Analysis, December 4, 2pm ET
Join Green Builder Media CEO Sara Gutterman as she explores hot-off-the-press COGNITION Smart Data market intelligence, revealing key insights into the state the building industry, sustainability grow
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Free MassSave Webinar: Building Commissioning, November 26, 2-3 pm ET
Building commissioning reduces energy bills, improves comfort, reduces CO2 and other emissions, and… it’s the law.
According to data from US Energy Information Administration (EIA), in
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EarthCraft Builder Training at Southface, November 7, Atlanta, Georgia
This EarthCraft Builder training provides a comprehensive overview of best practices for sustainable construction and design. Explore the ways the EarthCraft program can help you get started in the gr
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Free Webinar: Certification Synopsis: Building Rating System Market Overview, October 9, 12-1 pm PT
Choosing which building certification to pursue can be overwhelming. This presentation will discuss why third-party certifications have become increasingly popular and provide an overview of the most
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Free Webinar: Electric Heat Pumps for Water Heating, October 1, 9am-12pm PT
As our electricity supply becomes cleaner, due to an increased use of renewables for generation and a growing number of local ordinances prohibiting gas installs in new homes, electricity becomes an a
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Join Illinois Green for a hybrid workshop to explore why it’s critical to incorporate energy modeling
during the early design phase, examine accessible software to understand energy modeling ba
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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Webinar: Episode - Healthy Indoors Show (Recorded: Content Available 24/7)
Recorded Webinar: Healthy Indoors Show
Recorded: November 19, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Delphine Farmer
Indoor air is a complex soup of molecules that is constantly changing, not only because o
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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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