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How are organizations and companies in the green building industry growing and learning around equity, inclusion, and conscious communication? Diversity, equity, and inclusion are hopefully famil
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World Congress of Building Greening 2026, June 9 - 11, Berlin, Germany
The World Congress on Green Building 2026 in Berlin is a three-day event all about greening buildings (roof, facade and interior greening) and related topics (including urban climate, rainwater manage
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Decarbonization Tactics: Making Buildings Grid-Interactive, Online, May 6, 12 - 3 pm ET
This course will provide information on how all buildings that have one or more controllable energy-consuming systems, such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC); thermal energy storage
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2026 MassRecycle Conference & Trade Show, March 24, Boxborough, Massachusetts
MassRecycle will be bringing a full day of education, connection, and advocacy, and we will be hosting a large audience of people from the Solid Waste & Recycling Industry:
- Sustainability Co
Clean Energy Homes & Businesses, March 7, Carbondale, Illinois
Whether you’re a homeowner or a business, you probably know that gas bills have increasingly become unaffordable for many of us. But there are alternatives ways to heat and cool your home, alter
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Free Webinar: What’s in a name? History and precedents to PassivHaus, March 17, 12 - 1 pm PT
Have you ever encountered confusion when discussing PassivHaus? Or is it Passive House? And what about Passive Solar – what does that have to do with it? What does a German Standard h
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Free Webinar: Builder’s Perspective - Heat Pump Water Heaters, February 18, 9:30 - 11 am PT
Heat Pump Water Heaters (HPWH’s) are favored by the energy code, and increasingly by building owners, for their energy efficiency, cost effectiveness and contribution to better indoor air qualit
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CxEnergy 2026, April 21-24, Chicago, Illinois
Conference Registration includes access to 32 AIA-approved technical sessions and 40+ exhibitors
in the Expo Hall, Welcome Reception (Wed), Breakfast & Lunch (Thu and Fri), and Grand Reception (T
With federal incentives in flux, how can companies sustain clean energy growth? This second session of the Women in Cleantech Sustainability Industry Roundtable series focuses on financing innovation,
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Free Webinar: Energy Storage Systems for Backup Power, December 12, 12 - 2 pm PT
While there are economic incentives for grid-interactive customers who combine PV generation with energy storage, customers when polled, said that their primary motivation for using PV and batteries s
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As the world faces increasing extraction of finite resources, high unemployment, and the ever-growing climate crisis, it is clearer than ever that our linear “take, make, and waste&rdq
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This course discusses the impact of buildings on the natural environment and offers insight on designing to minimize those impacts through sun control and mastery of the elements.
The discussion em
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Climate Mobilization Act Primer, September 16, 1-2 PM
Get informed on New York City climate legislation and its impact on buildings. Register now for the Climate Mobilization Act Primer, a one-hour seminar examining the basic principles of the Clima
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Join GBA’s Leslie Montgomery for this in-depth prep course, which prepares you for the LEED v4 Green Associate exam! This one-day workshop teaches participants the core concepts within the US Gre…
Rainwater Harvesting Research and Industry Roundtable, June 28, 12 - 2:30 pm EDT
The ARCSA Foundation is proud to host this event bringing together leading researchers and industry professionals. The researchers will present an overview of their findings, ranging from microbial qu
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Free Webinar Options for Advanced Walls Thursday, June 10, 2 pm Central
What comes to mind when we say Advanced Walls? Is it 3D printed assemblies? Is this just another term for advanced framing?
In this session, Dan Wildenhaus – Technical Advisor and Industry Li
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Go "Behind the Walls" (or in this case outside of them!) with Chris of LG Squared (Architect), Matt of Sawhorse, Inc. (Builder), and Dan of ROCKWOOL.
Join the #1920sMakeoverATL team as they pre
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LIGHTFAIR 29th Edition, May 6-10, Chicago
The transformative power of innovation and imagination converge in a global presentation of light and technology—brilliantly revealed at LIGHTFAIR International. Where new discoveries, new connectiv…
The Utility Management Conference, Feb 20-23, San Antonio, Texas
Water and wastewater managers and professionals will gather to hear the latest approaches, practices, processes, techniques, case studies, and research in all aspects of utility management. Th…
EES North America, July 9 -12, San Francisco, CA
Covering the entire value chain of innovative battery and energy storage technologies, ees North America is the ideal platform for all stakeholders in the rapidly growing energy storage market. It tak…
Storage Week 2018, Feb 27 - Mar 1, San Francisco, CA
Now in its eleventh year, Storage Week 2018 is the global business hub driving the development and finance of energy storage projects. Storage is being proposed as the solution to firm renewable…
Green Gifts Fair, Nov 18, Minneapolis, MN
The theme this year is Green For All! We are encouraging the participation of people from all diversities, backgrounds, and identities to come together to create an earth-friendly holiday season for a…
An event of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD), McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston). Co-sp…
Every year new buildings are constructed that use more energy than expected. We want to break that trend and recently piloted an initiative in Minnesota known as Accelerate Performance. Accelerate …
URI Landscape Architecture Lecture, November 9th, 7pm, Kingston, RI
Eric Kramer, principal at Reed Hilderbrand in Watertown, Mass., will present a talk titled "Innovation and Tradition in an increasingly complex world." Lectures begin at 7:00 P.M. This serie…
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