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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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Phius Project Certification Workshop, Online, January 15, 1-5 pm ET
The Project Certification Workshop offers best practices and useful tips for the Phius project certification process.
About Phius:
Phius is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committe
LEED for Homes Green Rater Training, Online Training, December 20, 12 - 3 pm ET
LEED requires third-party on-site verification and performance testing by a LEED Green Rater, and demand is growing. Now, residential and mixed-use projects of any size can go under the LEED for
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Free Webinar: Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing, November 22, 11:30 am - 1 pm ET
Material conversion from source to useful products often has tremendous detrimental environmental implications in terms of energy demands, greenhouse gas emissions, and other toxic waste releases. Thi
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Free Webinar: Electrifying Restaurants, November 6, 10am-12pm PT
This class is an introduction to electric options for restaurant kitchens, from hole-in-the-wall diners to Michelin Star fine dining, with an emphasis on culinary traditions from around the world, inc
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Strategies for Encouraging Continued Green Building Materials Demand and Supply Growth
I recently had a sober conversation with a colleague where we agreed we should be further along in quite a few ways than we are in terms of green building. I imagine many people in our wider cir
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Tour a Passive House Historic Renovation in New Haven, CT, September 6, 1-5 pm
Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of a recently renovated historic building in New Haven, CT! During this event, attendees will learn how the project team transformed this building, originally a hotel fr
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USGBC Online Summit: Workforce Development in Green Building, September 3-5
How can we recruit, train and connect with a skilled green workforce? The U.S. has seen a 50% increase in green jobs since 2019, and the Inflation Reduction Act is anticipated to create an a
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In GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green, you will learn how to see buildings differently and discover strategies to make them efficient, healthy and resilient.
What you’ll learn
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Free Green Builder Media Webinar: Zero Energy Workforce Housing, July 17, 2-3 pm ET
Howard Building Science is building beautiful Zero Energy Ready Homes in Granite Falls, North Carolina for around $200,000. And these are not bare-bones homes. They are constructed with structural ins
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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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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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Rhode Island Farm Energy Tours, June 15
Topics to be covered in the farm energy tour: -RI Agricultural Energy Program Grant (RIAgEP) -USDA Rural Development – Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) -Commerce RI – Renewable Energy F…
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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Webinar: Mythbusting -- Verifying Ventilation in Schools, December 10, 3 pm EST
In the rush to get schools ready to welcome students and staff during or after the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are receiving information from all sides, some helpful and some misleading. Join these pan
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This session will discuss the concept of high-performance homes and buildings and the application of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) ducted heat pumps to meet their design and efficiency requirements.
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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…
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…
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