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Free Webinar: Material Disclosure Miniseries, Part 1: Understanding C2C Certified®, April 6, 11 am
This 3-part series will introduce several of the leading material ingredient disclosure programs (C2C, HPD, Declare) helping AECOs and MFRs make better decisions about materials used in
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Pros and Cons of an airtight house
A house needs to breathe, right?
Yes, they do, but not the way most builders or homeowners think they do. Many argue for a leaky house to allow the house to breathe. That is one method
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2023 Housing the Bay Summit, May 4, 12:45-6pm, San Francisco
The time to create more housing for more people at all income levels is now. Housing the Bay 2023 is an opportunity to reflect on this moment in time, rethink our strategies, and work to get more hous
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Free Passivhaus Workshop, April 21-22, Swindon, United Kingdom
Hot off the heels of the Passivhaus Open Days - Passivhaus Trust partners with the NSBRC for free in-person Passivhaus Workshops. These events will enable you to understand th
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Free PG&E Webinar: Electric Heat Pumps for Space Heating and Cooling, March 15, 9am-1pm
As the electricity supply becomes cleaner due to increased use of renewable's for generation along with a growing number of local ordinances prohibiting installs in new homes, electricity becomes
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Phius Retrofit Summit 2023, Virtual, March 21-23, 4-6 pm
The next frontier for fostering a built environment that supports the health of people and planet is efficiently upgrading the existing building stock. The virtual Phius Retrofit Summit 2023 (March 21
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An opportunity to celebrate the kickoff of ACCE (Advancing Climatech and Cleantech Leaders), an accelerator program developed in partnership between Greentown Labs and Browning the
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The Electrify Efficiently series, presented by Electrify My Home, highlights the significant business opportunities, vital role of efficiency, and lessons learned from the field.
Free Green Building Webinar: Mastering Daylight, January 25, 12 pm EST
This course discusses the benefits of a thoughtfully-designed light control system and how to make it work for your project’s daylighting and design needs. The discussion emphasizes implementing
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Free Webinar: Can We Have Compliant, Carbon Negative Cement? - Free CE Webinar, July 20, 12 PM
This session will explore how we are decarbonizing portland cement and possibly making it carbon negative. Is it possible?
Lessons Learned:
- Show people where CO2 is produced in cement
- Revie
Webinar: Building Resilience -- Resilient Water Systems, July 13, 11:30 am PDT
Access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right. California’s water system faces a variety of challenges, from drought to an aging water infrastructure, to changes in precipitation.
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2022 Affordable Housing Summit, Virtual, June 14-15
Housing plays a critical role in the health and equity of neighborhoods and in their resiliency to the effects of climate change. Building affordable housing right now means accounting for these simul
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Free Webinar: The Science of Climate Change: Food, May 6, 12 pm PDT
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona hosts monthly webinars on climate change. This month's webinar is on heat and the environment and how it pertains to the science of
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Free webinar including updates on the EV market and Drive Green with Mass Energy on March 20
The electric vehicle market has been growing and changing rapidly since Mass Energy launched our EV discount program, Drive Green with Mass Energy. Join for a 1 hour webinar to cover: What we need …
Free Webinar: Empowering Businesses to Tackle Climate Change, March 17, 3 pm CET
To avoid the worst effects of climate change, businesses and suppliers of all sizes need to measure and reduce their carbon footprint, resulting in a halving of their emissions by 2030 and achieving n
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Averting a Solar and Storage Waste Crisis, February 24, 9 am PST / 12 noon EST
To lower emissions, humanity is in a race to deploy as much solar, wind, and storage as fast as possible. However, this equipment has a useful life of 20 – 35 years. By 2050, it is projected tha
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Free Webinar: EcoRise: Building a Green Texas Program, Educator Workshop, February 5, 9 am CST
This workshop of the 2021–22 school year will train in EcoRise's Green Building Lessons for a Sustainable Future and the Sustainable Intelligence K-12 environmental education resources.
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Rapid Housing National Conference: Speed Without Compromise, June 22, Dublin, Ireland
Why attend? Availability and conditions of the housing stock in Ireland are shaping what the Government itself acknowledged as a potential crisis. On the 22nd of June 2018, the National Conference on…
The biennial World Cities Summit is an exclusive platform for government leaders and industry experts to address livable and sustainable city challenges, share integrated urban solutions and forge new…
2018 3rd International Conference on Green Composite Materials, June 28 - 30, Sarawak, Malaysia
ICGCM 2018 focuses on all technical and practical aspects of green composite materials. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to foc…
Home Building Crossroads: 2015 Energy Code & High Performance Join the event in Portsmouth, NH, for a lively discussion about the changes in the 2015 IECC as they relate to the building enclosure. …
13th Annual North American Passive House Conference, September 19 - 23, Boston, MA
Path to Zero Comfort, Health, Resilience, Carbon Action NAPHC is the leading passive building conference for climate-specific zero energy design, construction, and building science expertise. Pre-…
Pollutec Morocco, held under the auspices of the Secretary of State responsible for Water and Environment and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, has confirmed its position as the Ki…
NESEA BuildingEnergy NYC, Oct 4, New York
The BuildingEnergy NYC Conference + Trade Show is NYC’s premier event for professionals and practitioners in the fields of high-performance building, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brin…
Celebrate Earth Day in Boston, April 21st
We are inviting you to our party! Please join the Boston Affordable Energy Coalition for a special outdoor event to celebrate the Earth and the work we are doing together to take care of it and its in…
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