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Home Building Crossroads Webinar: Strategy to Process - Roofs, June 15, 12 pm EDT
Home Building Crossroads provides residential home construction professionals a chance to discuss challenges and hear solutions from today’s leading experts, as well as network with other profes
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Making Zero Emissions Buildings the New Normal, A USGBC First Friday Webinar, July 11, 1-2 pm ET
The idea of zero-carbon buildings is quickly moving from aspiration to expectation, especially for new construction. This session examines the enabling factors making zero carbon buildings possible, h
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The Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN) is a network of local governments partnering to promote resource efficiency at the regional level, focusing on energy, water, and greenhouse gas redu
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Free Webinar: Residential Existing Buildings - Additions, May 28, 12 - 1 pm ET
This course covers how an addition is impacted by the new energy code. When does an addition require a HERS rating and when it does not. This course covers the HERS process and requirements. What
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Transforming Spaces with Cool Surfaces: Cool Your Homes and Communities, Online, May 14, 3-4 pm PT
California has long embraced the use of solar reflective “cool” roofs to reduce energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of the urban heat island effect—and co
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In this webinar, Dan Perunko of Balance Point Home Performance will look at mechanical rooms as we transition from gas appliances to electric appliances. There is an opportunity for contractors and de
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Facilities and Campus Energy Summit, May 6-7, Washington, DC
The 5th Annual Facilities & Campus Energy Summit is designed to provide an interchange of in-depth knowledge and serve as a catalyst for collaboration across large built environments that do
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Climate Mobilization Act Series - Affordable Housing Training, Online, March 11, New York, NY
The Climate Mobilization Act Series: Affordable Housing Training educates affordable housing stakeholders – including building developers, owners, architects, engineers, and contractors –
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In this decarbonization workshop, learn from technical experts and industry professionals about heat pumps, heat pump hot water heaters, and other high-performance technologies to make your residentia
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Advancing Environmental Education Conference, September 21, 24 & 25
Our virtual conference will allow for innovation, recorded sessions (so you can attend ALL of them instead of being forced to choose between offerings), a tremendous amount of EE learning, connec
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The race to meet GHG reduction targets continues as organizations are continually thinking of ways to become more proactive and efficient in their use of resources. Energy Management and Information S
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Webinar: Green Building Strategies for Sustainable Transportation, July 29, 2 pm EDT
The transportation sector is the largest contributor of GHG emissions in the U.S. (29%) and makes up almost a quarter of global GHG emissions. Personal cars and light trucks are the primary source of
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The buildings we create affect the communities and the environment they rest within. Join USGBC Northern California and USGBC Orange County on June 30th to explore best practices in wor
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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…
Free Green Building Webinar: Creating Flexible Spaces Using Vertical Openings, May 26, 12 pm EDT
This one-hour course will discuss vertical opening systems, how they’re built, differences in operation & typical usages for interior & exterior applications. Also, this webinar wil
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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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Advanced Energy Conference 2018, Mar 26 - 28, New York City
Our tenth conference marks a watershed, as decades of research and development in renewables, batteries and other technologies realize their potential and have become vibrant sectors of the economy. …
The Southeast Building Conference, August 16 - 17, Kissimmee, FL
The Southeast Building Conference (SEBC) represents a powerful business-building opportunity for companies that want to reach the huge home building market in the South. Celebrating 40 years in…
Energy Futures: Cibersecurity and Financing Emerging Transitions, Nov 29, Madrid, Spain
Annual Event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council This meeting is known for its dynamic format and strong international slant and is being organized by CECME and the Spanish Ene…
Florida Energy Summit Oct 18- 20, Fort Lauderdale
This year the summit will be held October 18-20, 2017, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and will highlight how the State and South Florida are preparing for the future through energy innovation. The su…
Statewide Climate Resiliency Strategy Roundtable, Oct 18, 1-3pm, Hope Valley, Rhode Island
RI is gathering input from community leaders from across the state on climate change impacts now and in the future. The input will help inform Rhode Island's first climate resiliency strategy. We hope…
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…
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