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Intersolar North America, July 9 -12, San Francisco, California
North America’s most attended solar event and premier networking platform focus on the areas of photovoltaics, PV production technologies, smart renewable energy and solar thermal technologies. Sinc…
Whole House Humidity Control ALL Year Long || Aprilaire
Maintaining a healthy home is essential for your family’s well-being. In doing so, it is important to take steps to sustain indoor air quality. Humidity, of all IAQ metrics, h
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How to get FULL value for your GREEN Home: Key Points to Consider in Buying and Selling
If you've got 5 minutes to learn about protecting the value of what is likely to be your key asset, it's worth giving Green Builder Matt Hoots a listen. Matt teamed up with Green R
rheia's Comfort by Design - Smaller, Energy and Labor Efficient Air Distribution Systems
Now that we think about it, thanks to rheia, why is HVAC ductwork so big and bulky, and tangled? We’ve made changes to electrical and plumbing systems, so why not HVAC ducts? Clearly, it&r
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Electric Vehicles need to be powered by Solar (not Coal) to be green
Electric Vehicles are NOT sustainable.
The argument that Electric Vehicles are not sustainable is only partly true. Depending on where you live, they can be powered by electr
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One Family's Radon Story - Testing and Continuous Monitoring are Key
What is invisible, dangerous, and can occur in both old and new homes, that we also need special equipment to detect? In this video, Christopher Matos-Rogers of the Matos-Rogers Group
Free Virtual Green Building and Energy Tour: 21 Acres, May 15, 2 pm EDT
Join 21 Acres for a Green Building Energy Tour, held every third Saturday of the month at 11:00 a.m. Get a behind the scenes look at the tools and technologies that 21 Acres' LEED Platinum-ce
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Stone and Brick Veneers from Eldorado Stone and Cultured Stone - Lighter and Easy to Install (Video)
Green Builder Matt Hoots brings you “live"* to the expo floor in this multi-part interview with Allie Roqueta, Marketing Brand Manager at Boral Stone Division, from&nbs
A Look at How ERVs Work with Panasonic, How 80% Efficiency Might Work in Practice
In this video, Matt Hoots interviews Ken Nelson with Panasonic at the International Builders/Kitchen and Bath Show. Ken explains how ERVs work using a core exchanger, or enthalpic core
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Imagine a coating that can lower your operating costs by protecting against heat transfer and erosion. In this video, Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. interviews Tommy Sharp with Rate It
Glavel June Webinar, 6/13, 11:30am EST
Join the Glavel Team next Thursday June 13th at 11:30am EST as we share exciting developments about our company and products. Be sure to save your spot on Zoom. Have a topic you want the team to
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Making Affordable Multifamily Housing More Energy Efficient- a Guide to Healthier Upgrade Materials
A group of organizations including Energy Efficiency for All and The Healthy Building Network released a significant report in September, 2018, “Making Affordable Multifamily Housing More Energy
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This course will better inform the architect and designer about decorative hardwood plywood in terms of its manufacture, uses, types, and sustainable attributes. The architect and the designer will ga
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"God's Taunt" Bill McKibbens at Riverside Church: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIni_BwjGw
Can we fight with the knowledge we may loose the fight against climate change. It means divesting institutionally from the fossil fuel industry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIni_BwjGw
Monocrystalline Solar Cells | What are they?
Silicon: When constructing new monocrystalline solar cells, companies choose to build the individual photovoltaic cells out of a common element known as silicon, found in large quantities in the ea…
Sign with Clean Water Action to Help Stop the Rollback of the Clean Water Rule
This is one of those petitions it's easy to sign. Clean water is a bipartisan issue. "The Trump administration has proposed rolling-back critical protections for streams and wetlands. This dan…
Stewardship Mapping - find out what services are available in your community
I hope you'll check out the latest usgbc-la post (www.usgbc-la.org/blog) on stewardship mapping. The blog welcomes submissions from anyone in the field of sustainability. This blog shares some initial…
USGBC-LA's latest blog post: Snapshots on Sustainability
This week the topic is resilience. I hope you will check it out: http://usgbc-la.org/blog/snapshot-on-sustainability-defining-resilience/
Cleantech Open 2017 Boston Kickoff Party Tuesday, March 21, 5:30-8:30pm Greentown Labs 28 Dane Street Somerville , MA 02143 Join Cleantech Open Northeast for a night of cleantech community ne…
USGBC MA Green Building Showcase - Thursday September 22, 2016 5:30- 8 pm - Save the Date!
USGBC MA Green Building Showcase Thursday September 22, 2016 5:30- 8 pm Location: Boston Properties 888 Boylston Street Boston, MA Join the USGBC Massachusetts at the 2016 Green Building Sh…
Energy Department announces more than $102 Million Funding to Tackle Solar Challenges
Exciting Solar Funding News Today: The Energy Department announced $102+ million in new projects and funding to support American leadership in clean energy innovation. In partnership with companie…
MIT ClimateCoLab's Crowds & Climate Conference: Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 8:00 am - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 8:00 am - 7:30 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Along with the MIT Solve Opening Convocation Monday, October 5, 2015, 1-6:30 pm …
Get a Free Rain Barrel as a Syracuse Resident
Calling all residents of Syracuse, NY! Thanks to a generous grant through the Save the Rain Program, every homeowner in the City of Syracuse is entitled to a free Rain Barrel. A rain barrel is, as…
Clean Tech and Energy Solutions in Transportation, March 17, 5:30 pm
March 17: Clean Tech and Energy Solutions in Transportation Of the ~25,000 Tesla’s (with orders for thousands) to date, come meet Tesla #1858 (world wide) and its owner, Harold Nahigian, who will …
As many of you already know, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy 15 is fast approaching. It's March 3-5 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston and features workshops, s…
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