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Community Connections Webinar: Midwest Energy Strategies, USGBC Ohio, December 10, 1 pm EST
This webinar will highlight Midwest-specific energy strategies.
This webinar will explore what is interesting in buildings now and how energy has been affected by under-occupancy. It will then dive
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Free Webinar: Zero Is The New Black: The Path To Carbon Neutrality, December 15, 10 am - 12 pm PT
Buildings have one of the highest carbon footprints—they currently contribute to 30% of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and consume around 40% of the world’s energy. The const
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Building Energy Exchange and WISE Holiday Party, December 12, 5:30-7:30pm, New York, NY
Join the Building Energy Exchange and WISE communities for drinks and celebration at our annual holiday party, hosted by the Women in Sustainability & Energy series.
Come in your ugliest or mos
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Free Webinar: How to Design and Build High-Performance Attics, November 29, 9am-11am
California’s new Title 24 energy code and Passive House recommends high performance attics. Summer attic temperatures can easily add ½ to 1 ton of air conditioning load. The 2016 and 2019
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Free Webinar: Specifying and Selecting Lighting Controls, November 14, 9 - 11:15 am PT
This intermediate-level class will guide designers, engineers, and other specifiers through selecting a control system during the early design process and keeping that design on track as the project d
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Massachusetts has updated it's building codes with a strengthened Stretch Code and a new Specialized Opt-In Code that require lower energy demand and HERS scores and, for some build
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Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification, Online, September 27, 6:30 pm
Join the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild for the September Education Event: Building Resiliency Through Home Electrification. Learn how electrifying home systems and appliances can build resiliency in
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Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) have a long history of providing flexible, cost-effective, family-oriented housing. Recent regulatory changes in several states make ADUs a viable option to generate re
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Crushing the Code NYC: Residential, Online, August 30 (Also offered September 6)
Course Overview
Crushing the Code New York City: Residential is an online course that prepares design and building professionals to comply with the many requirements in the 2020 NYCECC an
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Please join Phius Alliance Chicago and Illinois Green Alliance for an mid-construction tour of Oak Park's first Phius Retrofit residence. This historic home is being thoroughly refashioned for a y
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EBC NH Webinar: Department of Environmental Services Division Directors, February 5, 9 am EST
This EBC New Hampshire Leadership Webinar will provide EBC members from throughout New Hampshire and New England with the opportunity to learn directly from each of the three division directors at the
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Webinar: Material Bank: What are ‘Good’ Materials? January 20, 12:30 EST
The claim is that all materials are bad. But, some are worse than others. Designers need to weigh up which material is appropriate for each element of the design. It is helpful to look at things
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The NCSE Drawdown 2021 Conference will feature everything our community values from past NCSE Annual Conferences with the addition of an exciting new collaboration with Project Drawdown. Giv
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Event: Grey to Green Conference, 5/8 - 5/10, Toronto, Canada
Make Better Infrastructure Decisions Senior levels of government continue to overlook the many benefits of investing in living green infrastructure such as urban forests, green roofs, and walls whe…
Join the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) for a conversation about the impacts of COVID-19 on essential workers and learn actionable strategies for finding your inner sanctuary d
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One of the key components to achieving a Zero Net Energy building is the tightness of its envelope to air infiltration.
Learning objectives include:
- Summarize where and how buildings leak air
The Community Resilience Planning Guide not only provides direction on how to plan for and implement measures to improve community resilience, it also introduces science-based tools to measure resilie
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Instead of multiple presentations this month, USGBC - Missouri Gateway Chapter is excited to welcome Jenny Carney as our speaker to discuss the BIT Building System. BIT is a building perform
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California Continues to Cut Emissions as it Extends its Cap-and-Trade Program
California has had a cap-and-trade system up and running since 2013, and now Gov. Jerry Brown wants to extend the program to 2030. The initial program, which was meant to run until 2020, has been succ…
Greener Buildings and Your Health, July 25, San Francisco
For close to 30 years, the green building movement has been working to improve the environmental impacts of the built environment on our cities and towns, setting standards and helping architects, des…
Austin Sustainable Building materials Forum, June 30
Building materials are a big deal. Building booms create competition not only for labor and equipment, but also for construction materials—affecting supply lines, timelines and bottom lines. Design…
Boston's Future Buildings - How Do We Get to NetZero? June 15,7:30 pm, Jamaica Plain
Are your curious about Net Zero? Want to learn more?? Join MCAN board members Henrietta Davis and Tammy Peterson at an event this Thursday! BCEC is hosting a forum on Thursday to discuss Net Zero, …
Women in Cleanweb Boston June 21st 5:30pm-7:30pm
MassCEC + GA are pairing up for the Third Annual Women in Cleanweb event, an evening panel discussion focused on bringing together the developer and cleantech communities while highlighting challenges…
Snapshot on Sustainability - We stand on the shoulders of giants
USGBC-LA's blog "Snapshot on Sustainability", continues this week with reflections about the past built environment- and looking ahead. This week's new post is entitled, "I see further by standing on…
Passive House Massachusetts: LEEDv4 & PHIUS Passive House Standards, May 9, 6:30-8 pm
LEEDv4 & PHIUS Passive House Standards PH Mass May 9, 2017 6:30 to 8 PM @ BSA Boston Nick Falkoff, Principal of Auburndale Builders Inc This presentation will look at requirements and threshold…
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