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Discussions with tag 'Energy Efficiency'
Climate Data in a Warming World, March 10, New York, NY
Please join the Building Energy Exchange and the ASHRAE New York Chapter for the second installment of our joint ASHRAE Standard technical series — providing a deep dive for their development, i
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(New Dates!) 2020 NY GEO: Electrify! With Heat Pumps, September 9 & 10, Albany, NY
Whether you’re interested in heat pumps for your home, your business or as a career, this is the place for you! NY-GEO has been named to the City & State's Energy & Environment Power
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Montgomery County Energy Summit "A Path to Zero", April 1-2, Silver Spring, MD
HEALTH UPDATE: Due to concerns about COVID-19, the Montgomery County Energy Summit has been postponed from April to November 2020. We will continue to monitor the situation keeping public health as ou
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USGBC Webinar: Make Energy Cents - Residential Energy Tips to Help Lower Costs, May 21, 2-3:30 PM EDT
Join the Residential Energy Program Manager from Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection for an interactive presentation.
When it comes to your utility bill, you may
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Webinar: USGBC Virginia 2020 Legislative Recap, June 1, 11 AM EDT
Join USGBC’s Senior Policy Council, Liz Beardsley, and the Executive Director of the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council, Chelsea Harnish!
The 2020 session of the Virginia General Assembly was
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Webinar: The Importance of Effective Handwashing and Its Impact on Global Health, June 12, 12pm EDT
Designing public handwashing solutions that are code compliant, with reliable performance and efficiencies in water and energy use, can present several challenges to both the architect and plumbing en
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Webinar: The Building Envelope Campaign: Creating More Energy-Efficient Buildings, June 16, 2pm EDT
The Building Envelope Campaign, launching June 10, 2020, has been developed by the Building Envelope Technology Research Team, a part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Buildings Program
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Webinar: Benchmarking and Labeling Tools for Energy Efficiency, June 11, 9 AM PDT
This forum will discuss benchmarking and green labeling as tools for energy efficiency and decarbonization.
Energy benchmarking and labeling are tools that local governments can use to help reduce
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Webinar: Live Energy Analysis Charrette: Aligning Budget & Energy Conservation Goals, June 17, 12 pm EDT
Join us for a Live Energy Analysis Charrette where we'll align budgets with energy conservation goals!
Identifying energy efficiency strategies while balancing real-world constraints such as bu
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ASES Solar 20/20 Virtual Conference, June 24-25, 9 AM MDT
ASES SOLAR 20/20 is the American Solar Energy Society’s 49th annual National Solar Conference and will be our first ever fully-virtual conference. The virtual conference will be held online June
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Webinar: St. Louis Tackles Carbon from Existing Building The Midwest’s First Building Performance Standard, June 24, 1 PM EDT
Welcome to the June session of our Community Connections Webinar Series. Join the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) in partnership with USGBC and the Midwest Buil
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USGBC Colorado Webinar: Financing Resilience with C-PACE Loans, June 24, 11:45 AM MDT
On September 20, 2019, school children in the Solomon Islands arrived by canoe to their demonstration site to join the 4 million others around the world in the School Strike for Climate. In 2019, 906
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FREE Webinar: Concrete Tile Roofing: The World's Most Sustainable and Energy Efficient Roof System, June 25, 12pm EDT
This one hour course will take an in-depth look at the sustainability and energy efficient attributes of concrete tile roofing, including the near zero-waste manufacturing process, life-cycle cos
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Webinar: Exploring Climate Solutions (CT focused), June 30, 12pm EDT
In this webinar, Ross Spiegel, Architect and Specifications Coordinator at The S/L/A/M Collaborative, will provide an overview of green building rating systems and their impact on sustainability, ener
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FREE Webinar: Developing a Flexible Building Operation Plan, June 18, 10 am
COVID-19 may be forcing us to re-think our current Building Operation Plan as we prioritize occupant health. However, this doesn't mean that energy efficiency has to take a back seat - we can do b
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Webinar: GreenBuilt Home Series: Deep Energy Retrofits, July 15, 3:30 pm CST
This webinar will explore homes working toward net zero through deep energy retrofits. This second program in the series will feature three unique, deep home energy retrofits all workin
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FREE Webinar: Taking Commercial Offices to Net Zero Carbon, July 1, 1pm EDT
The release of the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide in January and the UK Green Building Council targets for Commercial Offices in April have put Net Zero Carbon front of place in commercial office
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Webinar: GreenBuilt Home Series Day 4: Wellness + High Performance, July 29, 4:30 pm EDT
Our final program in the series, on Wednesday, July 29, will feature two new construction homes, located in Evanston, IL, Oak Park, IL and Crown Point, IN, that prioritized he
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FREE Webinar: Green Business - Best Management Practices for Businesses, July 22, 12:30 pm EDT
Join this webinar to learn what UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County is doing to assist businesses with going green. This course is designed to introduce businesses with best management practices for imp
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Webinar: Getting to Zero with Embodied Carbon, August 5, 4 pm EDT
Building Tech Forum: Roadmap to 2050 wanted to better understand how our carbon footprint will change to accommodate the Commonwealth’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050. Now, we&rsquo
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FREE Webinar: Green Affordable Home, Fire, & Earthquake Resistant, August 8, 2 pm EDT
All landowners, home contractors, home developers, architects, engineers, financial advisors, realtors, investors, homeowners: this webinar is for you!
Learn how to build homes that are strong eno
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Webinar: Zero Carbon, Zero Bills, August 11, 7-10pm
This webinar is free. In addition, all attendees will receive a free electronic version (for iPad or Kindle) of David Green's highly acclaimed book Zero Carbon Home. Paul Hawken said, "Y
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Webinar: USGBC Missouri Gateway Presents: Energy Efficiency Measures with Resiliency Benefits, August 11, 5:30-7pm
LEED Fellow Jenny Carney will introduce tools and case studies for getting more than energy savings from efficiency projects. Key indicators and strategies for resiliency to the physical, reputation,
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Webinar: Chase Center Arena & Mixed-Use Development: High Performance Design at Mission Bay, August 13, 2pm EDT
The ambitious Chase Center Arena and Mixed-Use Development Project in San Francisco required an iterative and collaborative design process to achieve the building performance and sustainability goals
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Webinar: Conserving Energy through Building Enclosure Commissioning, December 10, 2 pm EST
What should a commissioning provider know to undertake Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) with the goal to conserve energy, specifically achieving target energy consumption levels for LEED v4 and
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