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2017 GreenBuilt Home Tour, July 22 &23

Green Homes Tour

by AbbieKnight

This year, during the 5th annual GreenBuilt Home Tour, we are featuring exceptional, award-winning, and nationally-recognized homes which highlight attractive, affordable, and sustainable building practices. All homes on the tour are third… more...

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Pests and Pollinators, July 20, Sarasota

Beneficial Insects

by AbbieKnight

What is that bug? Learn all about common yard pests and pollinators. Identify several pests and discuss the many ways to utilize and identify beneficial insects in our landscapes. more...

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Delaware Center for Horticulture - Initiatives for a Greener Building, July 20, Wilmington

Energy Efficiency,Solar

by AbbieKnight

Join DVGBC in Delaware for an exciting tour and presentation of recent building renovations at The Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH). Attendees will learn about solar and energy efficiency improvements and current inititatives for stor… more...

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A Midsummer Night's Green & Community Leader Awards, July 20, Washington, DC

Green Building Awards

by AbbieKnight

Toast the best of the best in local green building at the 16th annual Midsummer Night's Green, hosted by USGBC National Capital Region. This event is the premier, summer social event for the D.C. metro area's green building community, offer… more...

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Pick Your Poison: How Toxic Exposure could Increase under proposed EPA changes, July 19, Washington, DC

by AbbieKnight

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and its Building Clean initiative are pleased to invite you to a free symposium, Pick Your Poison: How Toxic Exposure Could Increase Under Proposed EPA Changes. The event takes place Wednesday, July 19 a… more...

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Green Professional Training (GPRO), Fundamentals of Building Green, July 20 & July 27, Los Angeles

Green Building

by AbbieKnight

The construction industry is moving quickly towards greener, high-performing buildings, creating increased demand across the country for sustainable building skills. This course teaches the basics of sustainability and provides an overvi… more...

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2017 New Gravity Housing Conference, August 3

Affordable Housing,Climate C

by AbbieKnight

The reality of climate change will fundamentally alter the way buildings are designed, built, and operated in the coming decades. At the same time, the need for quality affordable housing that can withstand increasingly extreme and volatile… more...

  Filed under: Green Affordable Housing

What's LED Lighting Without Controls? Webinar July 20

LED Lighting

by AbbieKnight

It's not just about how to pick the right LED lights or retrofit kits, you need to look past that and see the big picture. And what is the big picture? It's answering the questions like; how will you use the new lights and what is the best … more...

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California Continues to Cut Emissions as it Extends its Cap-and-Trade Program

Carbon Pricing

by Matt Z. Student

California has had a cap-and-trade system up and running since 2013, and now Gov. Jerry Brown wants to extend the program to 2030. The initial program, which was meant to run until 2020, has been successfully lowering greenhouse gas emissio… more...

  Filed under: Government Policies

USGBC-LA turns 15

by StacySinclair Technical writer

This week, USGBC-LA is celebrating 15 years. So, it’s a teenager. And like most teens, we can still remember its birth, we see much hope for the future, and in the present, there can be a lot going on and the choices made can set the path… more...

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