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Green Living Festival: Missouri Botanical Garden, September 17
Entrance to the Green Living Festival is included with regular entry to the Missouri Botanical Garden. FREE for Garden Members. FREE St. Louis City and County resident admission till noon.
12:30 p.
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Midwest Solar Expo, May 20-22, Chicago, Illinois
The Midwest Solar Expo focuses on solar and clean energy business and is designed to bolster the thriving clean energy market in the Midwest. This annual gathering attracts over 700 attendee
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LEED® Green Associate Exam Prep, Two 4-hour Online Sessions, May 7 & May 9 1-5 pm ET
This LEED® Exam Prep Course is a comprehensive course which will prepare attendees for the Green Associate exam. The day long curriculum is designed to cover the segments of the Green Associa
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Free Webinar - Powering Progress: All-Electric Design Incentives with Clean Energy Homes
Secure a strategic advantage in California’s development landscape by embracing the future of affordable multifamily building electrification. Join the Clean Energy Homes team for an upcoming we
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Spring 2024 Speaker Series: Building Equity
Affordable Housing: Understanding Local and Global Approaches with Anya Brickman Raredon
Drawing from her experience in over 20 countries, Anya Brickman
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This multi-session series highlights concepts and trends in green material selection and reviews tools available to find healthier, lower-carbon products that are better for the environment and better
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Free Webinar: Comparison of Energy Standards Code to Passive House: A Report, February 21, 12–1pm ET
Investigating the ability of 12 building standards to deliver resilient, healthy, and efficient buildings.
The different industries are rapidly converging towards a single energy vector - electrici
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Building Tour & Happy Hour at Workscape, January 30, 4-6pm, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Advanced registration is required! Additional event details will be shared with registered participants prior to the event. If you have not received a confirmation email within one hour of
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In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, USGBC is again offering the live Solar Decathlon Professional Training from January through March 2024. The Solar Decathlon Professi
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Virtual Course: E202 Advanced HOT2000 Energy Modeling for New & Existing Homes, January 8, 9 am EST
Energy modelling software is used to analyze and optimize the energy characteristics of buildings. HOT2000 is an energy modelling software developed and maintained by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
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As buildings transitioned from analog to digital systems, controls were dominated by platforms with high financial and educational entry thresholds. But with a movement towards relying on natural ener
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Passivhaus Trust partner with NSBRC for a free in-person Passivhaus Workshop. This two-day event will enable you to understand the key aspects of Passivhaus, the application of Passivhaus retrofi
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Research highlights the benefit of running a whole building energy analysis in a wide array of areas including reducing costs, improving a project’s marketability, and fighting climate change. I
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Net Zero Roundtable Discussion- Boston, MA on June 20th, 7-9pm
What does the community of the future look like? Probably net zero, or even net positive. What does that mean? It means a community that makes as much (or more) renewable energy as it uses. It’s not…
Introduction to Passive House Trades, Online, October 25, 1 - 5 pm
The Introduction to Passive House Trades will broadly cover the following topics:
- Passive House basics
- Typical construction types
- Windows and installation
- Air barriers and insulation
2022 MIT Sustainability Conference, Cambridge, MA, September 20-21
Sustainability in the face of increasing climate change risk: What, practically speaking, does that mean for the corporate world? For manufacturing, chemical, materials and process companies, it
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Join in Melbourne to discuss how to reimagine all aspects of the corporate real estate sector.
The corporate real estate sector is undergoing significant change, but with that comes opportunity.
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Online Workshop: EcoDistricts -- A New Model of Urban Re-Generation, July 19, 1 pm EST
This workshop will provide a framework to transform existing neighborhoods through the lens of Equity, Resilience and Climate Change and a process to create a roadmap and structure for communities to
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Net Zero Roundtable, Maynard High School, Maynard, MA, September 25, 7-9 pm
Please join Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN) on September 25 from 7-9pm at Maynard High School for a Net-Zero Roundtable. MCAN will be co-sponsoring this event with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partn
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The Mid-Atlantic Bioenergy Conference & Expo (MABEX), September 12-14, 2018, Philadelphia, PA
The Mid-Atlantic Bioenergy Council (MABEC) is looking forward to welcoming over 300 attendees from the Mid-Atlantic and beyond to Philadelphia, PA, September 12-14, 2018. Multiple program tracks…
Sustainable Job Opportunity: Greenovate Boston Communications Manager
Overview: Brief Job Description (essential functions of the job): Greenovate Boston is the Mayor’s initiative to engage all Bostonians in the City’s climate action goals, while continuing to…
Online: USGBC New Member Volunteer Orientation, 3 - 4:15 PM, August 14
USGBC is all in to get everyone in a green building in this generation and volunteers are a key part of accomplishing this big goal. Volunteers were at the core of USGBC’s foundation in 1993, and co…
Solar Conference, Aug 5-8, Boulder, Colorado
The Solar Conference moving north to Boulder, a city with a progressive sustainable energy vision, to continue the conversation on maximizing renewable energy, and to forge pathways for communities in…
Zone Greener: Facilitating Solar Adoption: July 10th in NYC
In 2012, the City of New York adopted a package of amendments to the NYC Zoning Resolution, collectively called Zone Green, to facilitate more sustainable and energy-efficient design. Zone Green addre…
USGBC-NCR Green Affordable Multifamily Construction Educational Panel, July 31, Washington D.C.
USGBC National Capital Chapter is excited to invite you to the Green Affordable Multifamily educational panel. As density in the built environment continues, growing concerns about gentrification a…
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