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Spring favorites: work and play

PLAYING: I love spring — especially this spring, which has finally arrived, seemingly overnight, after a long, wet, cold winter. I was lucky enough to celebrate it this past weekend with my favorite 6-year-old, teaching him to dye eggs.

WORKING: My favorite climate work is developing education and teaching about energy, emissions, and electrification. I have two of those projects coming to fruition this spring.

  1. The Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN — a collaboration of California’s San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties) is offering a certificate series comprising six classes on “High-performance Fundamentals.” My fellow class developers and instructors are high-performance rock stars Peter Yost, Judy Rachel, Dan Perunko, and Gary Klein. The series launched last week with “High Performance Buildings and Careers.” Peter is up next, on April 20, from 1 to 3pm Pacific Time, teaching “Using Building Science to Design and Build High Performance Homes.”The rest of the classes are on May 4, May 18, June 1, and June 15. All are virtual and FREE to residents of the Tri-County region. Please spread the word to folks you know in the area.

    For series info and registration, visit 3C-REN.org/events.

  2. Also on April 20, from 8am to 3pm Pacific Time, I’ve assembled another all-star cast — Ted Tiffany, Jack Rusk, and Vaclav Hasik — to teach an AIA-approved virtual workshop, “The Architect’s Roadmap to Net Zero,” offered by America Training Solutions. This event will satisfy the State of California’s new requirement for architects to complete five units of continuing education on NZE design to qualify for license renewal.Registration is a reasonable $150-200, and here’s a code for a $50 discount: NetZero-50. Sign up HERE.

BW2: Brilliant Weekend @ BuildWell 2014

120 green building leaders and innovators in the built environment gathered last weekend at BuildWell 2014 in Sausalito, CA. Kudos to Ecological Building Network‘s Bruce King, co-producer Sarah King, and their dedicated band of volunteers for producing a brilliant event. The speaker line-up included keynotes from Architecture 2030‘s Ed Mazria, science wiz John Warner from the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, and ecological footprint creator Mathis Wackernagel of the Global Footprint Network — visionaries all.

Highlights — besides the keynotes — included talks by at least two dozen inspiring individuals. Organizations represented included the USGBC, International Living Future Institute, Healthy Building Network, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, the US EPA, University of San Francisco, University of Santa Clara, BuildingGreen Inc., Gensler, Arup, Webcor Builders, Pankow Blue, and a host of other leading AEC firms.

Hosted at the gorgeous Cavallo Point resort (a star in its own right), this intimate meeting of the minds was the antithesis of the Greenbuild crush, where you’re lucky to spend 90 seconds with your favorite gurus. With most of the participants staying on premises, there were countless impromptu meetings and gabfests on porches, in hallways, and by the firepits.

Invite yourself to BW16 — sign up for the mailing list at http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/contact.

Better yet, join the organizing team or become a sponsor for this exclusive event!

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BuildWell 2014 Attendees at Cavallo Point, March 22, 2014

 

ZNE Home Retrofitting Classes in San Diego

Gas & Electric will be hosting our 4-part class series on retrofitting existing homes to achieve deep energy reductions while targeting zero net energy. Here’s the schedule:

  • May 9: Overview – yours truly (Ann Edminster)
  • May 23: Mechanical Systems – Rick Chitwood
  • May 30: Enclosure – Rick Chitwood + Gavin Healy
  • June 6: People & Plug Loads – Chris Calwell + Chris Hunt

Register here.

Habitat X 2013 Summer National Conference

Come Join us at Habitat X

Tuesday, July 30, through Friday, August 2, 2013

Just for HouseTalk readers, Super Early Bird registration has been extended until April 22nd.

Trainer-par-excellence Chris Dorsi writes:

The most common comment I hear from people who have attended the Habitat X Conferences is that the solid network of colleagues is the most important reason to attend. People who attend these events often end up collaborating with others in attendance throughout the year, whether to ask questions, share ideas, or transact business. The “network” — that big connected set of professionals who work in your field — is now more critical to everyone’s personal and professional success that it has ever been in the past.
 
We’d like to help keep that collaboration alive. And there is no better way to collaborate than to be in the same room with like-minded professionals. The agenda for Summer National this year is designed to maximize the professional connection among attendees. Here’s what we’re committed to this summer:

 

  • We’ve built an interactive element into each session. You’ll get to participate in some way in every workshop or class.
  • We’ve built in social events every evening so you can connect with everyone in both professional and casual formats.
  • We’re building a new collaborative platform — Habitat X 3.0 — that will be launched at the Summer National Conference.
And there are of course the expert facilitators and presenters that make these events so powerful: Ann Edminster, Ben Cichowski, J West, Gary Klein, David Brown, Kevin Beck, Bill Spohn, Don MacOdrum, Alex Glenn, and others. This will be an amazing event.
Email: cdorsi@habitatX.com
Phone: 406.439.8659
Website:   www.habitatX.com

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