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Webinar: Low-Tech Farm Hacks and DIY Infrastructure, March 1, 7 pm EST
Starting a vegetable farm can be very expensive but some easy DIY projects can cut your costs significantly. Lisa Helm will share practical tricks she’s picked up from her experience founding th
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Let's talk about tools and processes to design, build and rate new homes, multifamily buildings, and gut renovations to meet, beat codes, achieve the Inflation Reduction Act 45L tax credits, and o
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Free PG&E Webinar: Advanced Framing Techniques for Energy and Resource Efficiency, May 24, 9-11am
Did you know advanced framing techniques reduce material usage and create additional spacing for insulation in a home's wall? Advanced framing walls use 2x6 inch vertical studs spaced 24 inches ap
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Using EPA's National Stormwater Calculator, Free CE Webinar, April 26, 12pm ET
EPA’s National Stormwater Calculator (SWC) is a software application tool that estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site using green infrastructure as
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Free USGBC LA Webinar: LA Green Jobs – Virtual Career Fair, April 26, 2:30-4 pm
Green job seekers: Attend the LA Green Jobs: Virtual Career Fair brought to you by USGBC-LA.
This is a great opportunity if you’re looking for an opportunity to speak directly with
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Interested in a career involving sustainability in the built environment? There is a wide variety of education and professional careers that can lead to a place in the green building industry, whether
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USGBC Ohio Green Building Tour Series: Blue Ash Residence (in-person), February 24, 4:30-6:30 pm
This LEED Platinum Certified home is a gut-rehab on a 1/4 acre lot is walking distance to downtown Blue Ash. The tax-abated home is extremely energy efficient and features a 5-kW solar array, zoned HV…
Urban Land Institute (ULI) India Summit 2023, February 15
The Urban Land Institute provides leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI is an independent global nonprofit supported by members r
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Free Webinar: Enhancing Energy Equity In Green Building Practices, January 25, 12–1 pm EST
The Energy Equity Project, housed at University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, was launched in May 2021 to support BIPOC, frontline, and low-income communities in securing maxi
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Webinar: Home Composting for Zero Waste, April 20, 7 pm EDT
Home composting is easier than people might think. Most of the work is done by nature’s composting work force (decomposers). All we have to do is feed them our food scraps and yard waste, give t
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Free Virtual Workshop Series: Building Retrofit, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11
The energy performance of the existing UK housing stock is generally very poor and an extensive retrofit programme that utilises the most energy efficient technologies and practices is the only forese
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Free CE Webinar: All About Ducted Mini Splits, April 7, 12 pm EDT
This session is a follow up to "Introduction to Fully Ducted Heat Pumps for All Electric Heating & Cooling." It reviews different types of ducted indoor units, the special design conside
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CxEnergy Virtual, April 6 - April 29
(Washington, DC, February 16, 2021) CxEnergy, the premier industry event in commissioning, energy management and building diagnostics, was originally set for April in Fort Worth, TX, but had to be can
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Living Building Tour - Hitchcock Center
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment has constructed a world-class, 9,000 square foot environmental education center built to meet the Living Building Challenge. Opened to the public in Fall, 2016…
Affordable Housing is a Climate Solution is a 4-part webinar series that MCAN is co-hosting with the Boston Society for Architecture. The goal of this series is to start building a community of advoca
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Free Webinar: Do Heat Pumps Save Energy and Increase Home Value? January 20, 11 am EST
Electrifying most fossil-fuel-burning applications provides a pathway to achieving cost-effective deep decarbonization of the economy. Heat pumps offer a feasible and energy-efficient way to electrify
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Webinar: Episode - Healthy Indoors Show (Recorded: Content Available 24/7)
Recorded Webinar: Healthy Indoors Show
Recorded: November 19, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Delphine Farmer
Indoor air is a complex soup of molecules that is constantly changing, not only because o
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Virtual Event: Energy Storage Pro -- India Battery Show 2020, December 17-18
This conference will deliver insight into key business and technical challenges & discover commercial opportunities for battery manufacturers who can benefit business. The conference will div
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4th Annual WCS Talks, Women in Cleantech & Sustainability, Saturday, November 4, Mountain View
WCS Talks is a TED Style event featuring the brightest minds and most inspiring stories of the clean economy metamorphosis occurring all over the world. The annual event features both women and men fr…
The 17th annual SyracuseCoE Symposium, Water + Energy + Design: Innovations for Healthy, Vibrant Communities will feature presentations by keynote speakers, Faculty Fellows, and collaborating research…
USGBC-LA's new blog post: The Eclipse
"Where were you on Monday? Did you block time on your calendar between 9:45 and 10:30am to make sure you could take a peak at the solar eclipse? If you’re like me, I was checking the weather and ask…
Tesla built three battery storage plants and they accounted for 15 percent of the battery storage installed planet-wide last year. It's fair to say that just one of these plants would be the largest s…
Electric utilities today must contain costs at a time when many need to modernize aging systems and all face major changes in technologies, customer preferences and competitive pressures. Most U.S…
Waste Reduction & Plastic Free Living, July 25
GreenMichigan.org – along with Harmony Hall – hosts a monthly workshop series on various sustainable topics. This month we will be discussing waste reduction and plastic free living. Join us to le…
Green Jobs: Current and Future Trends in DC on August 17
Join for the fourth Annual Green Jobs event on Thursday, August 17th, 6-8:30 pm. They're bringing together green job seekers and providers of green jobs. They will focus on current market and future…
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