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A Rate It Green Content Guide to: Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Indoor air quality, or IAQ, awareness has been growing in recent years due in some part to the COVID pandemic and increasing outdoor air pollution concerns such as wildfire exhaust/pollution, whic
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You get an electric bill every month. It sometimes makes you scream and throw sweaters at your family. But what’s actually causing your electric bill to be so dang expensive? In this sessio
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2024 World Sustainable Built Environment Conference (WSBE24), June 12-14, Online
The World Sustainable Built Environment Conference (WSBE24), focuses on innovative pathways and partnerships for sustainable built environments. With the scale and urgency of the sustainabi
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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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AprilAire Residential & Commercial Ventilation (NATE Course # 3029-0011), Online, 3 pm EDT, April 7
Learn all about AprilAire's lineup of fresh air ventilation solutions.
We’ll discuss how our ventilation solutions meet fresh air demands that satisfying both building codes and the need
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There has never been a more important time for materials and resources in buildings. From climate change, to habitat destruction, to threats to human and ecological health, the world faces big challen
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LCAs & EPDs: What You Need to Know, Online, March 8, 1 - 5 pm EST
Through this course, you will learn the promise and pitfalls of LCA and EPDs, compare how the Living Building Challenge, Living Product Challenge, LEED and Green Globes address them and examine relate
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USGBC-LA Webinar: Title 24 Solar Mandate: Multifamily Code Compliance, February 16, 2 pm EST
Now that California building code requires solar on single and multifamily new construction, it’s essential that developers, architects, and builders are armed with the best guidance on how to m
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ProGreen EXPO, Feb 13-16, Denver, Colorado
ProGreen EXPO is the only green industry conference in the Rocky Mountain Region of its kind. More than 6,000 green industry professionals gather every year in Denver, Colorado to gain vital knowledge…
If you're like most households in the northeast, you heat with oil or gas and have had your heating system for 10+ years. Replacing your heating system is costly. Planning ahead can save you consi
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Free Webinar: California Landscape Architecture Biodiversity Loss, December 3, 12 pm PST
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona hosts a series of monthly presentations on the science of climate change and landscape architecture solutions. This month will feature biodi
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Webinar: GreenHomeNYC - Monthly Forum: Heat Pump Conversion, November 17, 6:30 pm
Join this webinar to learn more about heat pumps and energy conversion.
Energy Fellows Institute, Advanced Energy Executive Program, May 16 - 23
Energy Fellows Institute is an executive immersion program providing a platform for the exchange of ideas, opportunity, skills and community to develop leaders ready to succeed in world changing advan…
Please join us at Hampshire College for the Net Positive for Higher Education Symposium—focused on inspiring, educating, and igniting action that creates a living future within higher education inst…
Heat Pump Water Heater Workshop by Passive House California, April 25, 3-6 pm - San Jose
Join Passive House California for a workshop to learn more about Heat Pump Water Heaters: • Why we should be using them? • What brands are out there? • Tips and tricks to installing the…
16th Annual New York State Green Building Conference in Syracuse, April 5-6
The New York State Green Building Conference is a little over two months away, but register online today and save green with early bird registration discounts for one more week! Join for sessions o…
The Fairview: Deep Retrofits in Multi-family Residences - A BEEx Forum - 3/21, Manhattan
Join Building Energy Exchange for a panel discussion showcasing the deep energy retrofit of The Fairview, a large multi-family residence in Forest Hills. A deep energy retrofit may seem daunting du…
This month, Bill Womeldorf will be presenting on "Getting to Zero in MA: Single Family and Multifamily trends." Please note this is a speaker change, but an awesome new topic! Residential Green…
North American Passive House Network Conference 2018, October 17-21, Pittsburgh, PA
NAPHN Annual Conference Join North America’s Passive House community as it convenes in a hotspot of Passive House design construction: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thanks to a strong professional ba…
Energy Efficiency & Asset Management Conference, April 11-12, Merrimack, NH
Knowledge is Power! Know Your Assets and Understand Your Energy Use This two-day conference, offered by NEWEA Energy and Asset Management Committees, will explore asset management, energy efficienc…
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