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Webinar: Exploring Climate Solutions (CT focused), June 30, 12pm EDT
In this webinar, Ross Spiegel, Architect and Specifications Coordinator at The S/L/A/M Collaborative, will provide an overview of green building rating systems and their impact on sustainability, ener
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Presented by Electrify My Home, Electrify Efficiently webinar series will highlight the tremendous business opportunities, vital role of efficiency, and lessons learned from the field, through practic
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To achieve California’s ambitious goals of addressing the housing crisis, improving the transportation system, enhancing people’s lives, and mitigating climate change, governments and agen
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Effective work scopes help contractors and customers achieve specific performance goals in a home’s attic efficiency upgrade. Developing a comprehensive, goal-oriented work scope can help contra
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Join The Environmental Center (TEC) for a hands-on session on improving comfort and reducing energy costs for your home! TECs mission is to weave sustainability into the everyday lives of Central Oreg
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Free Webinar, An Introduction to Electric Construction Equipment (Webinar), December 4, 1-3 pm PT
This class is an introduction to electric construction equipment. The goal is to inform contractors and policy makers about the wide range of available electric bulldozers, backhoes, bobcats, cranes,
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Trying to build or renovate our housing stock to make it more sustainable and energy efficient is not cheap, but there are many incentives to help you do it. We are excited to host a focused session t
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In single-family homes, it’s often cheaper and more convenient to replace a gas or oil furnace with the same equipment than to upgrade to an efficient heat pump.
This webinar presents new fin
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Join NESEA for this special Pro Tour event and visit a new, free-standing single-family home and the modular manufacturing facility where it was pre-fabricated.
We’ll begin our event wit
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Free Webinar: Intro to Industrial Electrification, September 5, 12-2 pm PT
Industrial professionals should attend this introductory class for a high-level introduction to the electrification journey for industrial businesses.
This class:
- Discusses the motivations
Upcycling - Innovative submissions welcome
In case you were unable to attend Metro’s Upcycle Web Forum on Thursday, August 13th, the event recording and resources mentioned in the Forum are available at www.metro.net/upcycling.
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Municipal Green Building Conference and Expo (MGBCE), Online, August 21-22
Since its inception in 2001, MGBCE has become the longest-running and largest gathering of leading sustainability and green building advocates within both the public and private sectors of Southern Ca
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Dodge Data & Analytics, in partnership with The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), recently released the “2020 Green Single Family and MultiFamily Homes SmartMarket Brief.&rd
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GTM Webinar: The Road to Seamless DER Integration and Stops Along the Way (12/6 @ 2pmEST)
The road to seamless distributed energy resources (DERs) integration will follow different courses, but the state of disruption is a stop ahead for all utilities. DERs challenge traditional approaches…
Webinar: The Importance of Effective Handwashing and Its Impact on Global Health, June 12, 12pm EDT
Designing public handwashing solutions that are code compliant, with reliable performance and efficiencies in water and energy use, can present several challenges to both the architect and plumbing en
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Attend this free webinar to learn how collecting construction & demolition (C&D) materials on-site for reuse and recycling can reduce disposal costs and conserve valuable resources.
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GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green Online Course, June 4, 9-2 pm
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.
GPRO Fundament
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Free Event: Energy Star Portfolio Manager Training, 4/11, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Boston, MA
Free Event: Energy Star Portfolio Manager Training Tuesday, April 11, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Location: 50 Milk Street, "Lighthouse" Room - 20th Floor Boston, MA 02109 Join the City of Boston an…
Deep Energy Retrofits Initiative by Environmental Health Watch, Ohio
How low can you go? Imagine reducing the energy use in your home by 70-90%. It is possible– and can be economically feasible– without using renewable energy. Super-insulation and Passive House pri…
Green Building Pro Tour: Award Winning Net-Zero Home & Teaching Tool Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Friday, August 18 Watertown, Connecticut CEUs Pending: 2.5 AIA LU/HSW, 2.0 BPI, and …
Event: Universal Design Conference NYC 2017, 3/9, 8:00am - 5:00pm, New York
Universal Design Conference NYC 2017 Thursday, March 9, 8:00am - 5:00pm Location: AIA New York 536 LaGuardia Pl New York, NY 10012 It is our great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of Univ…
Wind turbines across the Great Plains states produced, for the first time, more than half the region’s electricity. The power grid that supplies a corridor stretching from Montana to the Texas Panha…
Event: Stop the Greenwashing: A coversation with Anthony E. Malkin, February 28, 2017 9am - 10am EST
Stop the Greenwashing: A coversation with Anthony E. Malkin February 28, 9am - 10am EST NYU School of Law Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 1…
SolarEdge Webinar: SolarEdge's HD-Wave: A New Era for PV Inverters, February 16 (10-11 am PST)
SolarEdge Webinar: SolarEdge's HD-Wave: A New Era for PV Inverters, February 16 (10-11 am PST/1-2 pm EST) Registration: http://bit.ly/2jVR9kO About SolarEdge: SolarEdge’s mission is to bec…
Wow, Check out this Sea Change Map of Boston in 2050 and 2100
See what happens in 2050 and in 2100 generally, and with a major flood event. We've got some climatechange mitigation work to do. http://seachange.sasaki.com/ Thanks Mike Duclos for point…
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