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June First Friday Webinar: LEED v4 Whole Project Water Use Reduction Pilot ACP, June 7
Join USGBC for a deep-dive on LEED v4 pilot alternative compliance path (ACP) for Whole Project Water Use Reduction, a performance-based pathway for teams to demonstrate reductions in water consumptio
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Road to Zero: Fifth City Commons Building Tour, August 9, 1 pm, Chicago, IL
Join Illinois Green Alliance for the first Road to Zero: Summit Tour Series with a deeper dive into the Fifth City Commons project. Fifth City Commons is a new-construction afford
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Free Online Workshop: Evaluating and Selecting Luminaires, July 25, 9am-2:30pm PT
LED Luminaires are now the dominate electric light source. As with legacy light sources, their characteristics need to be reviewed and compared to choose the best fixture for an application &nbs
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Free SCE Webinar: Energy Storage Basics, June 28, 10 am - 12 pm PT
Energy Storage Systems (ESS) are the key to increasing the amount of renewables on the grid. This class will cover the basics of ESS terminology and common ESS battery chemistries, such as lithium-ion
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Free Webinar: Electrify Efficiently: Staging Home Electrification Projects, June 4, 12-1:30pm PT
Long-term planning is essential when it comes to most whole-home electrification journeys. By taking into consideration a customer’s long-term needs alongside their immediate needs, you can help
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Free Webinar: Designing for Decarbonization, May 21, 9 am - 1 pm PT
Want to know more about what it means to achieve “decarbonization” for your building project? Understand the definition of decarbonization, zero net energy (ZNE), and zero net carbon (ZNC)
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USGBC: 2024 Michigan Energy Summit, May 8, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Creating Opportunity through Decarbonization
The Michigan Energy Summit is the premier energy conference of the year. With industry experts discussing the future of clean energy in Michigan, y
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This presentation by The New Yorker staff writer, David Owen, will focus on the topic of his 2010 book, The Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to S
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Climate change presents a call to action to transform the energy ecosystem, requiring us to change how we’ve planned, fueled, and operated the grid over the past 100 years. The United States has
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Grid Mid-Atlantic's Solar Soireé: A Five-Year Anniversary: September 9, Washington DC
GRID Mid-Atlantic invites you to join in celebrating five years of changing lives through energy alternatives while celebrating the achievements of community champions who help advance social jus
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Explore Detroit: Urban Agriculture + Green Space Bus Tour, August 17, Detroit, MI 12pm-3pm
Detroit is home to approximately 1,700 urban farms, each innovative and unique in it's own way. On this tour we will explore these sustainable green spaces and hear from the incredibly dedicated D
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Metro & USGBC-LA Sustainability Tour, July 8, 1:00-6:00pm, Los Angeles, CA
Join USGBC-LA for a fun and informative sustainability tour through DTLA aboard Metro! The focus will be on how each stop has implemented best practices and new technologies to green their buildings f
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Lincoln Net Positive Farmhouse, BSA, Committee on the Environment (COTE) June 19, 6pm, Boston, MA
ZeroEnergy Design's Stephanie Horowitz AIA presents one of the firm's net positive designs. This modern farmhouse ties into the cultural landscape of Lincoln, MA - a town known for i
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We are having problems finding good people who want to sell a full line of green chemical products. Green chemicals have gotten a black eye in the past and many good sales people are skeptical about …
Are you interested in building a zero net-energy, low-carbon house?
Join Revision Energy and USGBC MA on a New Home Tour in Rockport, MA!
Houses are not being built like they
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Smart Buildings: Rising to the Challenge of the Future
By definition, the Internet of Things, or IoT, is the network of connected devices that contain electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect, inter
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Williams College Starts the Clock on a Year of Measurement for the Living Building Challenge
This month, the team at Williams College began the 12-month performance period to meet the Living Building Challenge for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. For one year, the b…
Stevens Institute of Technology Wins Solar Decathlon 2015- Congratulations!
Stevens Institute of Technology's SURE HOUSE won top honors overall at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, took second pla…
Governor Baker Testifies in Favor of Energy Bills - Netmetering Caps, Wind Energy Hydropower
Reports surrounding Governor Baker's testimony On Tuesday seemed reasonably positive. The Governor spoke favorably about "testing" the market for Offshore wind projects, and he also testified favor…
Electric Pride - Aspen Colorado is the Third U.S. city to reach 100% Renewable Energy!
Inhabitat reports from the Aspen Times that Aspen has succeeded in powering itself with 100 percent renewable energy. The city has worked for more than a decade to reach this milestone. Technologies…
Things are looking good financially for the green building industry!
New research done by the BBC shows that the green building materials market will reach a total value of $69 billion by 2019! The most interesting part of this new research is that some estimates show …
Has anyone else been getting calls about electricity going up 13%?
Over the past couple weeks, I keep getting calls to my home saying, "Your electricity will go up about 13% in the upcoming months due to new regulations promoting cleaner energy. However if you go sol…
Connecting Investors and Donors with Cleantech and Clean Energy Investments
I was interested to read Greentech Media's article on how few US philanthropic dollars are typically invested in the kinds of clean energy and cleantech projects that can reduce our impact on the envi…
German American Smart Buildings Symposium, Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., @MIT
The German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is pleased to announce the next event in our International Sustainability Series: German American Smart Buildings Symposium Tuesday, June 16th, 9 …
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