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"Decarbonization" and "electrification" are becoming household words in some parts of the country. This presentation will demystify these terms, covering the motivations, benefits,
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Free Webinar: Zero Is The New Black: The Path To Carbon Neutrality, December 15, 10 am - 12 pm PT
Buildings have one of the highest carbon footprints—they currently contribute to 30% of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and consume around 40% of the world’s energy. The const
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Building Energy Exchange and WISE Holiday Party, December 12, 5:30-7:30pm, New York, NY
Join the Building Energy Exchange and WISE communities for drinks and celebration at our annual holiday party, hosted by the Women in Sustainability & Energy series.
Come in your ugliest or mos
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Free Webinar: How to Design and Build High-Performance Attics, November 29, 9am-11am
California’s new Title 24 energy code and Passive House recommends high performance attics. Summer attic temperatures can easily add ½ to 1 ton of air conditioning load. The 2016 and 2019
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Free Webinar: Specifying and Selecting Lighting Controls, November 14, 9 - 11:15 am PT
This intermediate-level class will guide designers, engineers, and other specifiers through selecting a control system during the early design process and keeping that design on track as the project d
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Massachusetts has updated it's building codes with a strengthened Stretch Code and a new Specialized Opt-In Code that require lower energy demand and HERS scores and, for some build
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Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification, Online, September 27, 6:30 pm
Join the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild for the September Education Event: Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification. Learn how electrifying home systems and appliances can build resiliency in
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Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) have a long history of providing flexible, cost-effective, family-oriented housing. Recent regulatory changes in several states make ADUs a viable option to generate re
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Crushing the Code NYC: Residential, Online, August 30 (Also offered September 6)
Course Overview
Crushing the Code New York City: Residential is an online course that prepares design and building professionals to comply with the many requirements in the 2020 NYCECC an
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Healthy Buildings Challenge Kickoff Event, Online and Free, October 6, 5:30 pm EDT
The Healthy Buildings Challenge, a Greentown Launch program with Greentown Labs and Saint-Gobain and supported by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, is supportin
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Greenbuild's Global Health & Wellness Summit, September 9
More critical than ever, the Global Health & Wellness Summit brings industry leaders together to discuss how healthy, accessible spaces are being redefined amid the ongoing climate and global heal
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Webinar: Green & Healthy Housing for All, August 17, 10 am PST
The buildings we create affect the communities and the environment they rest within. Join us on August 17th to discuss the affordable housing crisis in the golden state, the third event in our Interse
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GPRO Fundamentals Of Building Green, Online Course, July 22, 9am - 2 pm EDT
In this GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green online course, you will learn how to see buildings differently and discover strategies to make them efficient, healthy and resilient.
This
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The construction industry is moving quickly towards the greener, high-performing buildings, creating increased demand across the country for sustainable building skills. This course teaches the bas…
Free Webinar: Windmill Green - Sustainable Design for the Developer and Tenant, June 7, 12 pm BST
"Using Windmill Green as a case study we will explore how sustainable development, both from a Developer and Tenant perspective, has steered the design of the building. This webinar will look at
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Clothes dryers are a significant component of residential electricity use. Spurred by the emerging availability of heat pump clothes dryers in U.S. markets and their common use in Europe, we examined
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During this webinar, we will evaluate protective coatings as a solution for many common problems encountered during the life-cycle of a building. Some of the easily recognized benefits of a low mainte
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Free Webinar: RE-electrification, repowering our world with renewables, April 8, 4-5 pm
Electrification of our transportation, utility and building sectors is a vital component of our society’s move toward a cleaner and greener world.
So how are we doing? Where do we stand today
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Energy Storage Association's 28th Annual Conference and Expo, April 18-20, Boston, MA
For decades, energy storage technology has continued to advance towards integrating electricity from any source into a more resilient and reliable grid, creating jobs, lowering energy bills, and helpi…
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 14-16, Chicago, IL
Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. The ideals and passion of the green building community come alive at Greenbuild. The buzz is contagious. Greenbuild b…
11th Annual North Texas Regional Water Conservation Symposium, Nov 14, Arlington
The 11th Annual North Texas Regional Water Conservation Symposium morning speaker lineup includes, George S. Hawkins, Esq, CEO and General Manager of D.C. Water, sharing his passion for the water indu…
Project Finance Documentation by Infocast, Nov 1 - 2, Denver, CO
Learn How Real Financing Documents for Wind and Solar Projects Are Negotiated This two-day Project Finance Documentation course will provide attendees with a broad knowledge base about the fundamen…
SEPA Utility Conference, April 23 - 25, Rancho Mirage, CA
Utilities teaching utilities is what sets this conference apart from other distributed energy conferences. This isn’t a trade show. It’s where utilities go to share with other utilities how they g…
Sustainable Brands: New Metrics 2017, November 13 - 15, Philadelphia
Leading businesses are creating and valuing entirely new forms of social and environmental business impact to meet evolving consumer expectations. Future-focused corporate leaders are successfully…
SEON will be running Peter Yost’s highly acclaimed 2-day course on Tuesday, October 31 and Monday, November 6th, 2017. This is the same course that Peter ran at GCC a few years ago and received…
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