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Love It! Free Green Webinars from Heat Spring
Its becoming easier and easier to learn from the comfort of your own space and build upon your green building knowledge. HeatSpring offers free and fee-based, premium online courses taught by industry professionals. Course categories range from building science, insulation, and sustainable building, to big data, batteries / energy storage, and biomass. Free courses include…
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Water Wise Homes Conference
The What: Join leading experts and your peers at Build It Green’s upcoming Water Wise Homes Conference to learn about new technologies, techniques, and strategies to save water in the homes we design, build, and remodel, overcome water conservation barriers, and fight California’s drought. Presentations will explore: Landscape Design and Strategy; Behavior and Water System Design; Water-Energy…
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Hey World, Get Up and Green Up!
World Green Building Week is here! During the week of September 22-27 2014, Green Building Councils in countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Middle East and North Africa and representing more than 27,000 organizations will host more than 200 events to celebrate World Green Building Week under the theme: “Get Up, Green Up.”…
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Greener Builder 2014: Climate of Change
The What: Join leading experts at Greener Builder 2014 organized by the USGBC Northern California Chapter. The conference will set the stage for a high-profile discussion at the intersection of green building and technology. This year’s theme is Climate of Change, and will feature sessions that address LEED v4 credits and implementation, healthy buildings, technology…
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JW Eco-Technology’s Innovative Load-Bearing Permeable Pavement
With increasing urbanization and development, increasing floods and droughts due to climate change, and diminishing fresh water resources, stormwater management is a real and urgent topic of discussion. Recently I came across a promising permeable pavement solution at the Taiwan International Smart Green City Expo/Taiwan International Green Industry Show — the JW Pavement Eco-Technology. Without…
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2014 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project Winners Announced
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have just announced this week their selection of the 2014 Top Ten Green Projects, examples of sustainable architecture and ecological American design projects that protect and enhance the environment. The projects include new and adaptive re-use buildings, ranging from government offices to…
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Buildings That Follow the Sun
Can building floor plates rotate in response to sun movement? Sir Richard Branson seems to believe it’s possible. He recently introduced Virgin Buildings, a new generation of ultra-green skyscrapers aimed to positively change the landscape for the environment, architecture, and cities around the world. Sir Branson envisions Virgin Buildings to provide their own food, water,…
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dFab Connects the Digital Fabrication Community
A few years ago at a Green Building Summit convened by Greentech Media and SRI International, I met an interesting fellow named Greg Howes. He talked at a fast pace and was full of ideas. He introduced me to the world of robotic manufacturing and made a strong case for how technology could help us…
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11th Annual Water Conservation Showcase in San Francisco
The What: The 11th Annual Water Conservation Showcase brings together designers, building professionals, decision makers, and community members to discuss the latest in water conservation strategies, technologies, policies, and resources. There will be in-depth presentations including several of them focusing on drought issues. There will be more than thirty representatives from the manufacturing sector Aquacell and…
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AEC and Tech Professionals to Converge at AEC Hackathon 1.1
The What: A hackathon is an intense event that brings together software developers, graphic designers, and user interface specialists along with industry process experts and professionals to identify issues and create software solutions, usually within a weekend. A first for the Architecture (A), Engineering (E), and Construction (C) Industry, the AEC Hackathon 1.1 is a…