Date: November 15-17, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: TBD
Location: TBD
City: Boston
Country: USA
Website: http://www.open-building.org/conference2011/index.html
Contact: Stephen Kendall
Email: openarch@bsu.edu
This conference will engage participants in considering architecture as a long-term investment with the capacity for incremental change. The focus is on residential and healthcare architecture and their intersection. The conference will immerse participants in lectures, panel discussions, exhibits of student competition winners and exemplary built projects, and hands-on charrettes hosted
Date: September 24 - 25, 2011
Time: Sat: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sun: 9 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Venue: Seven Springs Mountain Resort
Location: 777 Waterwheel Drive Seven Springs, PA 15622
City: Seven Springs
Country: USA
Website: http://www.motherearthnews.com/fair/SevenSprings.aspx
Contact: Brandy Ernzen
Email: bernzen@ogdenpubs.com
Cost: Tickets range from $15.00 for a one day pass to $25.00 for a weekend pass.
The Mother Earth News Fair is a family-friendly sustainable-living event that features more than 120 hands-on workshops from experts on real food, organic gardening, homesteading, renewable energy, green building and remodeling, DIY projects, small-scale livestock, green transportation, and related topics.
Children 17 and under are FREE
Purchase tickets:
Online:
Date: September 3 - 5, 2011
Time: Sat: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Sun and Mon: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Venue: Marin County Fairgrounds
Location: 3501 Civic Center Drive San Rafael, California 94903
City: San Rafael
Country: USA
Website: http://www.motherearthnews.com/fair/SanRafael.aspx
Contact: Brandy Ernzen
Email: bernzen@ogdenpubs.com
Cost: Tickets range from $15.00 for a one day pass to $25.00 for a weekend pass.
The Mother Earth News Fair is a family-friendly sustainable-living event that features more than 120 hands-on workshops from experts on real food, organic gardening, homesteading, renewable energy, green building and remodeling, DIY projects, small-scale livestock, green transportation, and related topics.
Children 17 and under are FREE
Purchase tickets:
Online:
Date: July 29-31, 2011
Time: Fri 1pm-7pm, Sat 9am-7pm, Sun 9am-3:30pm
Venue: Grant County Fairgrounds
Location: 411 NW Bridge St
City: John Day, OR
Country: USA
Website: http://www.solwest.org
Contact: Jennifer Barker
Email: info@solwest.org
Cost: $5 per adult per day; weekend, youth, and family discounts; volunteers and children under 12 free
“Journey to the Future” with traditional skills and new technology, learn about renewable energy and sustainable living. Keynote Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of “Up Tunket Road,” talks about finding a new path for homesteading in the 21st century. Rendezvous with the Oregon Electric Vehicle Club as they vow “John Day or Bust.” Over 50 free workshops, exhibitors show tools
Date: July 4-8, 2011
Time: 8:45am - 5pm daily
Venue: CK Choi Building
Location: 1855 West Mall, UBC Campus
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/sis
Contact: Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
Email: sustainability@cstudies.ubc.ca
Cost: $1995 by May 13, 2011; $2495 after May 13, 2011
The UBC Summer Institute in Sustainability Leadership is designed to bring together and empower those from a variety of sectors - including business, academic institutions and government - to take a leadership role in developing policy, creating plans, and managing sustainability projects.
This one-week professional development program delivers the principles, best practices and
Date: June 20th - 24th 2011
Time: 10am - 4:30pm
Venue: Regents College
Location: Inner Circle - Regents Park
City: London
Country: UK
Website: http://www.one4allcsr.com/courses/waste_management__resource_efficiency_course
Contact: Sean Flynn
Email: sean@one4allcsr.com
This 5-day course is designed to learn how to:
Apply best management practices for individual waste streams so that their organization can keep one step ahead of EU and UK legislative requirements.
Conduct resource efficiency programmes for organization and establish a consistent approach for professionals when undertaking resource efficiency reviews.
Date: 14 & 15 June 2011
Time: 08.00-17.00
Venue: GreenX offices
Location: One North End Avenue
City: New York
Country: USA
Website: http://www.environmental-finance.com/events/view/32
Contact: Lucy Alvelos
Email: conferences@environmental-finance.com
Cost: $1,450 (less with discounts - see website for details)
This forward-thinking conference will examine the likely cost of carbon in California’s new cap-and-trade regime, attempt to identify the likely winners and losers, and consider the impact on other states and nations. The panel of expert speakers will also review developments in the voluntary carbon markets, international funding of climate action and new sources of finance such as
Date: June 14, 2011
Time: 7:30am - 7:00pm (start of reception sponsored by Molson)
Venue: The International Centre
Location: 6900 Airport Road, Mississauga – CONFERENCE CENTRE ENTRANCE.
City: Toronto, Ontario
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.watersummit.ca
Contact: Andrea March
Email: andrea@innovolve.com
How can we satisfy our thirst for water and make the most of our liquid assets? Join us at the 2nd Annual Canadian Water Summit - Opportunities for Designing our Water Future - to learn about practical solutions and explore opportunities for tackling our shared water challenges. Register today at www.watersummit.ca
Date: June 13 - June 17, 2011
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: ENVIRO CENTER
Location: 7761 Waterloo Road
City: Jessup, MD
Country: United States
Website: http://www.greenbuildinginstitute.org
Contact: Heather Szymanski
Email: info@greenbuildinginstitute.org
Building Performance Institute’s (BPI) Building Analyst Professional (BA) training introduces fundamental concepts of building science. The purpose of this training is to prepare candidates for the written and field exams required to earn certification by BPI.
Date: 11-12 June, 2011
Time: 10am-5pm each day
Venue: Fairy Lake
Location: Water Street,
City: Newmarket
Country: Fairy Lake
Website: http://www.windfallcentre.ca/index.php?st=2&s=Home&p=Homepage&
Contact: Joanne Nesbitt
Email: jnesbitt@windfallcentre.ca
Cost: Contact Joanne Nesbitt
10th Annual Windfall Ecology Festival early registration now open!
Join us in celebrating our Tenth Annual Windfall Ecology Festival!
June 11th-12th, 2011
Fairy Lake Park, Newmarket
We are currently working to bring together an A-List roster of performers, speakers, and celebrity chefs to help make this year’s festival one for the history books!
Our exhibitors are integral to the
