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LEED Tour - South Bend Fire Station #4, July 18, 3:00-4:00pm, South Bend, IN
Join USGBC Indiana to tour the newly opened South Bend Fire Station #4. This is a high performing building that has earned the LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council fo
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Decarbonizing heating systems in multifamily buildings can seem insurmountable without the right information. Discover how to evaluate the efficacy of heat pumps and other decarbonized heating solutio
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Greentown Labs EnergyBar: Pride Month Celebration, June 6, 5:30-7 pm, Somerville, Massachusetts
In collaboration with Out in Climate and Saint-Gobain, Greentown Labs invites entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, students, and other climate champions to celebrate a
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Pittsburgh Passive House Construction Boot Camp, June 3, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Join Emu Passive along with host Green Building Alliance and co-host Passive House Pennsylvania June 3rd - 7th for a week long Passive House Training Boot Camp!
This course is geared toward build/d
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The Green Things Summit 2024 is bringing together innovators and changemakers to explore how IoT and emerging technologies can drive green initiatives and pave the way for a sustainable future.
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Apprenticeships are a time-tested and powerful tool for workforce development. Registered apprenticeships can support companies in meeting their needs for a trained workforce while opening doors to ne
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Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Rater Training with Southface, Online, April 9 - 24
With Southface, you can become a Certified Home Energy Rater, one of the highest residential energy credentials that can be earned by an individual. Southface offers a live online version of
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Net Zero Construction Conference 2024, Online, March 14
The Net Zero Construction Conference is a virtual hub for industry leaders in sustainable construction to discuss the advanced technologies, challenges, and progress toward reducing the construction i
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QuitCarbon has been offering free, expert home electrification retrofit planning, contractor referrals, bid benchmarking, rebate optimization, and more to homes across California for nearly two years.
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Free CE Webinar: Modular housing & Zero Energy Ready, February 7, 12–1pm EST
While offsite construction holds much promise, the reality of factory-built housing over the past few decades has seen a focus on least cost, not best performance. How does modular construction delive
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Electrification is now the leading option for new buildings and major retrofit projects in California, and elsewhere as well. In Califorina, 70+ municipalities have policies to phase out gas appliance
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USGBC Maryland and NCR Net Zero Schools Hard Hat Tour: September 11, 2019 Baltimore, MD
Visit two Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Schools currently under construction in Baltimore City. Graceland Park/O’Donnell Heights ES/MS and Holabird ES/MS are both designed to be zero net energy with the
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2019 NEEP Summit: Pathways to Decarbonization in the Northeast, August 27-29, Brooklyn, NY
This year, the NEEP Summit will be held in collaboration with Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as part of EPRI’
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A Price On Carbon: Driving the Economic Road Forward, 6/18 6-8 pm
A Price On Carbon: Driving the Economic Road Forward Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 6 to 8 pm Non Profit Center 89 South Street Boston, MA CABA invites members and friends to attend a workshop on …
New York Energy Week, June 24-27, New York, NY
Created in 2013, New York Energy Week is the industry’s comprehensive cross-sector, annual event series uniting the diverse sectors of energy.
The week-long event series i
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This event brings together representatives of public agencies including cities, counties, school districts, and councils of governments. This meeting is closed to vendors or service providers.
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Sustainable Building at Miami Beach, May 22, Miami, FL
Learn about the Sustainable Building Ordinances in the City of Miami BEach and how the new LEED version 4 and the Living Building Challange (LBC) Certifications can meet those requirments
Resilience Workshop Series: Building Resilient Water Systems, May 17, Los Angeles, CA
Introduction to Environmental Resilience Series: Building Resilient Water Systems
This series of 90-minute workshops are designed to introduce you to what resilience is and how it applies to your l
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IE Expo China 2019, April 15-17, Shanghai
IE Expo China 2019 taking place from April 15 to 17, 2019, at Shanghai New International Expo Centre, which will cover all the high potential markets in environmental area:
· Water and
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Job Postings for Rate It Green Member, Power n Sun
About the Company:
Power n Sun is an Engineering, Procurement & Solar Project Management Company operating throughout Middle East, South Asia, Burkina Faso, Camaroon, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda,
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New Organic Solar Technology to Power Global Network of Objects
It is hard to believe that one day technology and objects are going to be linked together through an ‘internet of things.’ That’s right an interconnected global network will help operate devices…
Devastating Man-Made Forest Fires in Southeast Asia Accelerating in Recent Years
The Foreign Affairs Minister of Singapore, Vivian Balakrishnan, is justifiably speaking out against companies that start forest fires in Southeast Asia, calling them a “man-made tragedy”. The fore…
EcoLogic’s 2015 Fall Benefit: Turning the Tables, Nurturing Resilience, Oct 1, 6:30 pm
TURNING THE TABLES: NURTURING RESILIENCE A Jeffersonian Dinner & Conversation about Conservation, Culture & Adaptation in a Changing World Thursday, October 1, 2015 6:30 – 9:30 PM The Comman…
Should we be Worried about the Rapidly Expanding Desalinization Industry?
Access to water is a growing issue, particularly with recent droughts. At first, desalinization sounds like a good idea. But I was reading an Environmental News Network article about how desalin…
Cleantech Open Class of 2015 - 5 NY Companies Changing the Sustainable World
Congratulations to Cleantech Open Northeast’s 2015 class of 34 companies developing clean technologies to rock the sustainable world: http://northeast.cleantechopen.org/en/challenge/cleantech-open-…
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