Title: Congress of Innovation on Sustainable Construction
Location: Curia, Portugal
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Description: The Congress of Innovation on Sustainable Construction – CINCOS’10 is an event organized by the Portuguese Platform for Sustainable Construction.
The congress aims to gather companies, municipalities, R&D units and other agents with a particular interest in the Built Environment Sustainability as a driving force for Innovation and Competitiveness.
An event for the Portuguese Sustainable Habitat Cluster in order to actively promote synergies and partnerships for innovation, whilst highlighting the work done so far by the Cluster agents and contribute to its differentiation and internationalization.
Aiming the dissemination of projects and activities of companies, local governments, R&D units within the Habitat Cluster, the congress program is based on Workshops, Thematic Sessions and an Exhibition Point.
Start Date: 2010-11-4
End Date: 2010-11-6

Title: Wind Power Finance & Investment Congress
Location: American Square Conference Center, London, UK
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Description: This event will bring together top experts and major players from the finance and investment community, along with utilities perspectives, leading wind farm owners, developers, manufacturers, regulators and politicians and provide an interactive, high-level event focusing on wind power investment and development for both onshore and offshore.

Start Date: 2010-07-06
End Date: 2010-07-07

Title: TEDGlobal 2010 Conference
Location: Locations throughout Oxford, UK
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Description: Headlines remind us daily of the political, economic and environmental woes facing the planet. But behind the scenes lie an amazing array of new ideas, new science, new technology, new social and political thinking, new art and a new understanding of who we are. When you put it all together, an entirely more hopeful view of the future emerges.
Many of the remarkable architects of that future – those who are pushing the boundaries of what is known and expanding the possible – will join us at TEDGlobal 2010, from all over the world.
Start Date: 2010-07-13
End Date: 2010-07-16

Title: World Water Week 2010
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Description: Hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the World Water Week in Stockholm has been the annual focal point for the planet’s water issues since 1991.
The Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, economic and poverty reduction agendas
Start Date: 2010-09-05
End Date: 2010-09-11

Title: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition
Location: Valencia, Virginia, Spain
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Description: This World Conference will unite the three most important scientific and strategic PV conferences: the 25th European PV Conference and Exhibition, the 36th US IEEE PV Specialists Conference and the 20th Asia/Pacific PV Science and Engineering Conference.

Start Date: 2010-09-06
End Date: 2010-09-10

Title: Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2010
Location: Euromed Management School, Marseille, France
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Description: Sustainability Management in a Diverse World. The conference covers the diversity of topics in the field of corporate responsibility and sustainability by inviting contributions from a broad range of schools of thought driven by rigorous thinking beyond rigid disciplinary borders.
Start Date: 2010-09-15
End Date: 2010-09-17

Title: Cleantech Investment World Asia 2010
Location: Shangri-La Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Description: This is Asia’s biggest event that aims to connect Asia cleantech companies with global and regional investors. Some of the key features of this event are regulator-investor dialogue, China focus session, India focus session, investment and funding track, IP licensing track, venture capital exchange, private equity exchange, investment showcase, cleantech company showcase and more.

Start Date: 2010-09-27
End Date: 2010-09-30

Title: GRI Certified Sustainability Reporting Course
Location: M. Goldsmith School of Mgmt, Alliant University, San Diego, CA
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Description: The course is based on the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) standard methodology, the most widely recognized standard in the world today! The course is aimed at providing participants with the tools needed to fully assess the sustainability of various activities and to reduce the negative impacts of day-to-day operations.

Start Date: 2010-10-02
End Date: 2010-10-03

Title: An Evening with Juliet Schor, author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.
Location: Portland, OR
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Description: The Natural Step – US, Illahee and Powell’s Books are bringing you an opportunity to meet Juliet Schor, co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to ecologically and socially sustainable lifestyles. Schor isalso a professor of sociology at Boston College, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth by Juliet Schor

Drawing on recent developments in economic theory, social analysis and ecological design, as well as evidence from cutting-edge people and places putting these ideas into practice, Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts – nature, community, intelligence and time – Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.

Haseltine Building – Admission (including book) – $26 TNS-US/Illahee members, $36 general admission
Start Time: 5:45 pm
Date: 2010-05-25
End Time: 7:30 pm

Title: GreenStock Expo & Concert
Location: WestWorld of Scottsdale
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Description: GreenStock Expo & Concert Series allows us to bring green communities together to share green products, green inventions, green ideas, and new green ways of EcoFriendly living. This concert series integrates music, green products, services, and education and allows us to support green initiatives with community action programs. The road to green begins here by bringing communities and companies together, one city at a time.
Date: 2010-09-17