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Webinar: Warm Homes for Less, Presented by South East London Community Energy, February 11, 11am BST
Are you worried about the cost of electricity and gas this winter? Discover how you can keep your Homes Warmer for Less.
Join our Warm homes for less webinar!
Take your first step to healthy hom
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Free Webinar: How to Design and Build High-Performance Attics, November 29, 9am-11am
California’s new Title 24 energy code and Passive House recommends high performance attics. Summer attic temperatures can easily add ½ to 1 ton of air conditioning load. The 2016 and 2019
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Free Webinar: Specifying and Selecting Lighting Controls, November 14, 9 - 11:15 am PT
This intermediate-level class will guide designers, engineers, and other specifiers through selecting a control system during the early design process and keeping that design on track as the project d
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Massachusetts has updated it's building codes with a strengthened Stretch Code and a new Specialized Opt-In Code that require lower energy demand and HERS scores and, for some build
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Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification, Online, September 27, 6:30 pm
Join the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild for the September Education Event: Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification. Learn how electrifying home systems and appliances can build resiliency in
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Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) have a long history of providing flexible, cost-effective, family-oriented housing. Recent regulatory changes in several states make ADUs a viable option to generate re
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Crushing the Code NYC: Residential, Online, August 30 (Also offered September 6)
Course Overview
Crushing the Code New York City: Residential is an online course that prepares design and building professionals to comply with the many requirements in the 2020 NYCECC an
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Please join Phius Alliance Chicago and Illinois Green Alliance for an mid-construction tour of Oak Park's first Phius Retrofit residence. This historic home is being thoroughly refashioned for a y
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Better Buildings Webinar: The Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Heat Pumps, August 8, 11 am EST
Heat pumps can be used as a decarbonization strategy in many building sizes and types to provide heating, cooling, and domestic hot water without fossil fuels, but implementation remains a challenge f
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Reducing energy and emissions in your facilities is not a one-person job - it takes a village! Every employee influences energy use practices in your facility in one way or another, so building an org
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Online: Multifamily Retrofits Playbooks Launch, March 24, 9 am EDT
To meet future stringent efficiency and carbon regulations, upgrades to buildings should be approached proactively and not in response to system failures or unexpected tenant turnover. Building owners
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Helvex Waterless Urinals: Increasing Water Efficiency while Saving Money, Maintenance, and Energy
Green Builder Matt Hoots was fortunate to engage in a great and informative conversation focused on waterless urinals with Stefana Naicu, and Gerardo Roa of Helvex, a leading Americas manufactur
What are developers doing to create sustainable buildings – and what is driving their decisions? What is the current state of real estate-related sustainability, such as building energy use, air
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Energy Connections: The Future of Mobility from Pedestrians to Hyperloop June 28th 7:30am-9:30am MDT
Following our popular Smart Cities talk in March, we're continuing to look at the energy landscape of the future. This time, in honor of Bike to Work Day on June 28, we're discussing the future of mob…
Shifting From Crisis Management to Innovation: Teaching for a Sustainable Future
Learn from and connect with other classroom educators to explore the lessons we have learned from this year of virtu
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Webinar: State of the Voluntary Green Power Market, January 28, 1 pm EST
This annual webinar will focus primarily on the voluntary market, through which consumers and institutions voluntarily procure renewable energy for all or part of their electricity needs. The webinar
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Calling all landowners, home contractors, home developers, architects, engineers, financial advisors, realtors, investors, home-owners and anyome who wants to build their own green affordable homes
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ASHRAE Winter Conference & AHR Expo, January 20-24, Chicago
The 2018 ASHRAE Winter Conference technical program includes tracks on what ASHRAE is most known for – standards, fundamentals and applications, systems and equipment – tracks on industry trends i…
LEED v4: Paints and Coatings, GreenCE Webinar, Wednesday November 15, 12:00-1:00pm EST
Get a comprehensive overview of LEED v4 BD+C New Construction credits – and how paints and coatings can contribute directly and indirectly to LEED credits. We’ll review credit intents, explain cre…
Introduction to the Living Community Challenge, Sept 28 5:30 – 7:30 PM - Wickford, RI
This presentation touches on the methodology of the Living Community Challenge (LCC) program and its components. This workshop will look at the similarities and differences between the LCC and the Liv…
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…
Energy costs typically take up a large portion of a school's budget. But what if there was a way for you to cut the costs of energy and increase the revenue and ROI for your school? The summer is …
Understanding the environmental, social and economic benefits of sustainable landscapes is essential for designers, developers, investors, and policymakers who influence land development and want bett…
Organic waste, which makes up approximately thirty five percent of the total waste stream in Massachusetts, can be broken down to recover useful elements through natural and mechanical processes. In o…
Pollinators serve a very important role in agriculture. Grasses such as wheat and corn are pollinated by the wind, but most other native crops require pollination by bees or other pollinating animals.…
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