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Webinar: Toxins in Our Construction Waste, June 2, 12 pm PST
Industry tends to promote diversion as the most important aspect in construction and demolition residuals management. But a small component (less than 5%) is composed of toxic substances such as elect
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Free Webinar: USGBC Mountain Region Women in Green Panel Discussion: 2023, August 24, 12:30-2 pm MDT
Your words. Your story. The mic is open.
Women in Green is a platform to gather and learn from others across fields and disciplines, generations, and job titles; it’s also a USGBC tradition,
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Online Workshop: The WELL Building Standard Workshop, August 24, 12 pm ET
This half-day introductory workshop will introduce broad audiences to the WELL Building Standard, including its key certification process. The organization and development of the WELL Building Standar
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Free Webinar: Hydrogen, A Rising Pillar of Our Clean Energy Economy, July 13, 1-2 pm ET
Hydrogen has been recognized as a key pillar of decarbonizing the global energy system, with application across numerous sectors including transportation, heavy industry and energy storage. Indeed, it
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Online Seminar with Building Science Corporation, Deep Energy Retrofits, July 11 & 13, 1-5pm ET
Deep Energy Retrofits is a LIVE! virtual seminar that applies the principles of building science to retrofitting existing building enclosures. Numerous examples of high-performance retrofit techniques
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Online Course, Sustainable Acoustics, June 15, 9-11 am
An overview of acoustic principles and ways in which sustainable design can be applied to acoustics to extend green design concepts.
Acoustics is a critical component in providing a comfortable lis
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Build it Green, SV@Home, and Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County invite you to a panel discussion and mini workshop on equitable housing decarbonization for Affordable Housing Month.
The
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2023 ULI Resilience Summit, May 15, 8:30am - 7pm ET, Toronto, Canada
Join Urban Land Institute Americas for its 4th annual Resilience Summit in Toronto on May 15, 2023. This exclusive event brings together leaders in the field of real estate and resilience to
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Amruta Khanolkar of the New Buildings Institute will give an overview of the emerging, retrofit ready 120V heat pump water heaters (HPWH) and findings from the California statewide field validation ef
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Our Path to Choosing Green Building Certifications: A Passive House and Earthcraft Home Renovation
Our video conversation above, part of the full "Behind the Walls" webinar playlist, shows how the Passive House Standard far exceeds basic energy codes. When we first s
Free Webinar: Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics, July 13, 2 pm EDT
As building energy and system-level monitoring becomes more common, facilities teams are faced with an overwhelming amount of data. These data do not typically lead to insights or corrective actions u
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Webinar: Landfill Waste Becomes Building Insulation, June 23, 12-1 PM EDT
Can a textile recycling company divert what is traditionally landfilled waste from waste streams to create building insulation? How?
Lessons Learned:
- Understand the scale of textile waste ove
"Passive House For All" is a call to action
Our existential environmental, health, and social crises demand that we look beyond isolated symptoms and tackle interlocking systemic cau
Webinar on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) 09/26, 7-8 pm, with Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN)
Do you want everyone in your city or town to have more clean energy? Do you want to make a big cut in your climate pollution as a community? Perhaps community choice aggregation (aka CCA, green agg…
Webinar: Green Technology and How we all Become Carbon Neutral, May 12, 8:00am, EDT / 1 pm BST
This 1 hour CPD session examines energy efficient design with a focus on low carbon.
Hosted by Simon Green, Managing Director of Green Building Design Consultants who are specialists in low carbon
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The Clean Energy Solutions Summit, Colorado Green Building Guild, April 21
The Clean Energy Solutions Summit is the Mountain West’s premier event for municipal, commercial and non-profit energy management and sustainability leaders and decision makers seeking
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Webinar: WELL Health-Safety Rating: What You Need to Know, April 13, 12 pm (central)
The WELL Health-Safety Rating promotes indoor safety by examining 22 features across five core areas: Cleaning and Sanitation Procedures, Emergency Preparedness Programs, Health Service Resources, Air
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Webinar: GPRO Operations and Maintenance Training, March 24-26
GPRO (Green Professional) is a comprehensive international training and certificate program that teaches the people who build, renovate and maintain buildings the principles of sustainability combined
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2018 RESNET Building Performance Conference, Feb 26 - 28 in Orlando, FL
The 2018 RESNET Building Performance Conference is the premier national forum on home energy ratings, existing home retrofits, building codes and energy policy. The RESNET Building Performance Conf…
New York Build 2018 -AIA CES workshops and Networking, Mar 19 - 20, New York
New York Build 2018 is the ideal opportunity for your organization to hear about all the latest construction projects in NYC and the tri-state area, as well as enjoy the opportunity to network with th…
Alternative Energy Expo at Deep Portage Learning Center, Saturday, October 28, Hackensack, Minnesota
Informative tours of the many alternative energy installations (wood gasification, solar hot water, solar electricity, passive solar heat, etc.) and energy efficiency upgrades that have been installed…
Emerging Professionals of Urban Green Council Holiday Party, December 13th, New York
The Emerging Professionals of Urban Green Council invite you to our 2017 Holiday Party! Join us to celebrate a great year in green building at Central Bar. Don't miss EP's biggest party of the year…
Rocky Mountain Green Conference, May 3, USGBC Colorado
Hosted by USGBC Colorado, the annual Rocky Mountain Green conference unites hundreds of industry leaders, experts and professionals to inspire, connect and advance sustainable building within the regi…
The Urban Land Institute Foundation Gala October 23, 7-10 pm, Los Angeles. California
The Urban Land Institute Foundation celebratory gala will be marking the opening of the ULI 2017 Fall Meeting in Los Angeles. The dinner—to honor Roy Hilton March and his many contributions to ULI a…
Sustainable Design Solutions: Building Envelope & Interior Finish Seminar, October 17th, Boston
Since 2006, America Training Solutions delivers more than 60 face-to-face continuing education (CE) seminars a year to building-design professionals across the United States and Canada, offering AIA a…
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