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Inaugural ESG & Decarbonizing Real Estate Forum
Editor’s Foreword: How can we do our part in keeping the commitment to achieve the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target? The real estate and investment markets play a key role in this commitment as the buildings they build, manage and invest in, account for nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions. While the concept of Environmental,…
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Ecocity World Summit 2022 is Virtual
Now in its 14th edition, the Ecocity World Summit, the longest running conference on sustainable cities, has come a long way since the first Summit held in Berkeley, California in 1990, making its way throughout the world, from Australia to China, from Turkey to the UAE. Looking back, I have had the opportunity to volunteer…
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Webinars: Electrification Training Series
The What: BayREN provides free engineering technical assistance to help local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area save energy and money while reducing their carbon footprints. The Municipal ZNE/ZNC Assistance program helps municipalities retrofit or construct buildings to meet zero net energy (ZNE) or zero net carbon (ZNC) goals by providing engineering analysis and…
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Webinar: The New Federal Sustainability Executive Order – Everything You Need to Know
With the signing of the new Federal Sustainability Executive Order the current administration has set forth aggressive goals to make the Federal government a leader in creating net-zero emissions buildings, utilizing carbon pollution-free electricity and a developing a net-zero emissions procurement plan. Join Greenbuild to kick off 2022 with a 1 hour webinar featuring Federal…
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Facades+ San Francisco
The symposium program includes three sessions covering issues unique to the region, including innovative building skins, high performance facades, and the future face of San Francisco.
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Accelerate Transition to Circular Built Environment
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Hands-on Learning: UCSC Multi-use Micropod
The What: There will be an open house of the UCSC Multi-use Micropod at a new location in the Bay Area. The UCSC Tiny House Design Lab serves as an applied science hands-on, project based learning environment. The course gives students the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts of design and engineering. In the…
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The Hague Leads the Way to Creating Cities of the Future
With Socio-Technical City, UNStudio – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts – has created a new urban vision for the ‘Central Innovation District’ (CID) test site in The Hague. The CID test site covers a 1 x 1 km area in the centre of The Hague. Currently the test site is a major…
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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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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…