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Live Stream: Southface’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable on Kendeda Building
Southface’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable will discuss lessons learned from The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design on Friday, March 1st, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The event is sold out but the organizers will be streaming live on their Facebook page at 7:30 am EST. Tune in then at www.facebook.com/SouthfaceInst. The Georgia Institute of…
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Get Ready for CALGreen & Energy Code Changes!
The What: California’s next round of CALGreen and Energy Codes will take effect in 2020. Green Technology will be offering training courses throughout California over the next few months. The training seminar will give you an opportunity to find out about the Triennial Code Changes in advance and discover what will become mandatory when they enter…
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Living Lab for Energy Efficiency Design
Harvard’s HouseZero project officially opened this week. It is an adaptive re-use project that transforms a pre-1940s Cambridge house into an educational, office building for The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. More importantly, it serves as a data-driven living lab for documenting and exploring energy efficiency strategies and their performance outcomes. Targeting the…
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Reinventing the Toilet
Since 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has sponsored the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, providing grants and investment to researchers around the world. Last week, the Foundation along with global innovators, development banks, corporate partners, sanitation utilities and governments hosted the first Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge challenges innovators to…
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Making Water From Air
Architects are often trained as generalists who think about problems globally. Leave it up to an architect and his team to come up with a smart solution to address a critical global water crisis – the severe lack of accessible and clean potable water throughout the world. Congratulations to architect David Hertz and inventor Rich Groden…
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Webinar: Zero Carbon/Energy Codes
The What: Following closely on the footsteps of last month’s Carbon Smart Building Day Conference, the New Buildings Institute will be hosting a webinar to discuss key policy tools to meet climate goals in its Webinar: Zero Carbon/Energy Codes. As governments of all scales consider options for meeting deep greenhouse gas reduction goals, attention has turned…
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How Do We Get Beyond Net Zero Carbon?
The time is now. As an industry, we have been making headway in greening the built environment for the last twenty years but that is not enough, and not quick enough. We need to achieve zero carbon emissions as soon as possible and act with a sense of urgency. Ed Mazria, Founder and CEO of…
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NAPHN18 Flash Sale
The North American Passive House Network Conference and Expo will take place on October 17th -21st, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Passive (House) first – It’s about resilience – not just rating systems. Join the community as it convenes in a hotspot of Passive House design and construction: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thanks to a strong professional base,…
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Carbon Smart Building Day
The What: Carbon Smart Building Day is a conference for building professionals supporting the Global Climate Action Summit. Its purpose is to inspire you to lead the built environment toward Zero Net Carbon, and equip you with the latest tools, resources and programs to help your firm thrive in a Zero Net Carbon future. Carbon…
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Italian Medical University Leads with Sustainability
Italy-based Humanitas University has a mission to train globally minded healthcare professionals through state-of-the-art interactive teaching methods and close integration with its clinical and research community. Its recently completed green campus designed by Italian architect Filippo Taidelli of FTA Studio is an articulated campus made up of three new buildings of about 25,000 square meters…