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Online: Challenge Spotlight: Carbon & Circularity, March 22, 3pm EDT
Join as we showcase how innovation challenges can be a great tool to advance the use of a circular approaches to transition towards energy efficiency – both in the built environment and in other
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Join Illinois Green for a candid professional development program that explores what it actually takes to move sustainability forward from inside imperfect systems. Sustainability work rarely hap
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Smart City Expo Miami - Urban Intelligence for a Regenerative Future, October 5 - 6, Miami, Florida
Join leaders, innovators, and city changemakers at Smart City Expo Miami, where the future of urban living takes center stage. This premier gathering brings together government officials, tech
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The key goal of this course is to introduce the building design and management professions to the relationships between buildings and the electric grid through the lens of microgrid design. The design
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This course will identify different types of ADUs, cover prescriptive requirements that apply to new ADUs, and discuss minimum requirements and design options for compliance.
Held in partnership wi
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As LEED v5 raises the bar for performance, transparency, and accountability, contractors are playing a more central role than ever in achieving certification outcomes. This session explores how constr
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Free Webinar: Operational and Embodied Carbon, Together at Last, May 27, 12 pm ET
What if embodied carbon evaluations could now be easily and quickly conducted through operational energy-use ratings?
What are the trade-offs found in trying to significantly reduce operational car
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NYC Next: 2026 Building Trends, June 3, New York, NY
It’s a pivotal moment for climate action. Federal headwinds are impeding progress, states are prioritizing energy cost and reliability, and New York City is entering a new mayoral era with fresh
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Accelerating to Zero Tour at Rachel Carson EcoVillage, May 5, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Join GBA to tour the nearly finished Rachel Carson EcoVillage project at Providence Heights and learn about the journey of this multi-generational co-housing community. Attendees will hear from Projec
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Swarthmore College Sustainability Open House, April 16, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
On Thursday, April 16, 2026, Swarthmore College will host a series of events highlighting the sustainable design of Martin Hall and the Dining and Community Commons, as well as the College’s To
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Free Webinar: Building A Circular Economy, May 25, 12 pm EDT
This talk will be led by Evy Hambro, a Managing Director, and the Global Head of Thematic and Sector based investing and team leader for the Natural Resources team within the Fundamental Equity divisi
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Switching from polluting natural gas to clean electricity in our homes, offices, schools, business, and places of worship makes our community safer, healthier, and more resilient while reducing our ca
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The National Building Materials Exhibition and Trade Centre (CBME), the largest agency representing more than 30,000 building materials manufacturers in Mainland China, has signed an exclusive Agency
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2017 Energy Storage & Microgrid Conference on September 11 in Newton
Innovation Northeast in collaboration with the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster and the Hydrogen Energy Center is pleased to host the 2017 Energy Storage and Microgrid Conference, taki…
GPRO Fundamentals of Green Building Virtual Training, March 26, 9 am PT
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
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USGBC Central PA 2021 Kick-Off and Trivia, Online, February 24, 4-6 pm
Meet current Market Leadership Advisory Board (MLAB) Members, preview upcoming events, play trivia for prizes, and 1 hour of networking!
Join the USGBC Central PA to kick-off 2021!
Meet current
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This webinar focuses on how your new build or retrofit project will benefit from constructing with renewable energy sources.
About this Event
Building Better with Renewable Energy Sources is a w
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Perspectives on Resilience: Insurance and Credit Underwriting, February 9, 3pm - 4pm EDT
This webinar will examine how climate and resilience risk are impacting organizations through insurance, credit underwriting, and credit ratings. Attendees will get insights from industry practitioner
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The pressure to protect coastal properties from storm damage and erosion due to sea level rise and more intense and more frequent coastal storms is increasing. Property owners, from residential homeow
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EVENING Panel Discussion Innovation in Passive House, Net Zero and Near Net Zero Construction phME is proud to present two events as part of the Fall Forum. The goal is to reconsider possibilities…
Co-Liv! A Conference Lab on an Affordable Living Eco-system, San Francisco, December 7-9
This event is a global gathering for the co-living sector, with special attention placed on the intersection of the sector with affordability, as well as on the emergence of a new investment, enterpri…
AHF Live: The 2017 Affordable Housing Developers Summit 11/14/17 - 11/16/17, Chicago
AHF Live is the leading conference and exposition serving the affordable housing community nationwide. This groundbreaking event was specifically designed to meet the professional needs of owners and …
Greening The Sphere is having a pizza night at Flatbread Pizza! - September 26, Providence
Greening The Sphere is having a pizza night at Flatbread Pizza! Join us for delicious food, fun and raffles! Flatbread will generously make a donation for every large and small pizza, dine-out or eat-…
Hitchcock Living Building Tour
Come meet our newest educator – our environmental education center! It is designed to model systems in nature, it is net zero energy, net zero water, has composting toilets, and has been made with r…
Thermal Bridge Modeling For Advanced Users, August 22 in NYC
Ready to step up your technical skills game? Join NYPH member, Ed May and John Mitchell of bldgtyp for a two hour course on Thermal Bridge Modelling for Advanced Users!
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