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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: All-Electric Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), September 12, 2-4 pm PT
All-electric homes are becoming more and more common in California. Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are also becoming a common way to house people in California. This program is a unique opportunity t
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BuildingEnergy NYC, October 24, New York, NY
NESEA's BuildingEnergy NYC conference and trade show is a chance to immerse yourself in a full day of networking and intensive learning with your peers from the fields of design, construction, eng
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Hub 101: Get to Know the Building Energy Resource Hub, a free webinar, July 31, 1-1:30 pm ET
The Building Energy Resource Hub offers guidance, technical resources, and peer connections to help you identify and address your building retrofit needs.
Join this jam-packed 30-minute webinar to
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Free Online Workshop by SCE: Industrial Lighting, July 9, 9 am - 2:30 pm PT
Industrial lighting is rapidly changing as new technologies, particularly LEDs provide opportunities for more energy efficient lighting. This newly updated class, reformatted for on-line presentation,
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The path to going all-electric can take many forms. For some, this means upgrading one appliance at a time; for others, it means replacing them all at once and offsetting with on-site solar. Regardles
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Free Webinar by Green Builder Media: Zero Energy Modular Homes, May 29, 2 pm ET
You may not have noticed, but a growing number of systems-built homes are demonstrating zero energy ready homes can be built cost competitively to industry-leading quality standards. Meet one of the o
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Passive House Certification is now required for all multifamily buildings over 12,000 square feet in Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Worcester and many other communities that have opted into th
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Free Webinar, Redesigning the Materials Economy to Heal People and Our Planet, April 18, 12 pm ET
Earth Month is a perfect time to talk about solutions that will heal the planet. A path towards planetary health is more urgently needed now than ever. Our current materials economy results
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Community Solar Forum, April 7, 9:30-11 am, Acton, MA
Please join the Congregation Beth Elohim community as they celebrate the Department of Energy "Sunny Award for Equitable Community Solar"! And learn more about how Community Solar helps us m
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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 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: 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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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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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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