Title: AzBizGreen 2010 “Connecting Green to the Community for Profit & Sustainability”
Location: Glendale, AZ
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Description: 3rd Annual AzBizGreen 2010 “Connecting Green to the Community for Profit & Sustainability”. Please visit http://billclaydesignstudio.com/azbizgreen_2010.html for registration, topics, speakers, sponsors, agencies & businesses represented. Online
registration required, free to attend.
Date: 2010-10-07

Title: Urban Beekeeping
Location: Hopland CA
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Description: In this introductory course, students will learn the basics associated with starting and managing a sustainable bee hive in an urban setting. Though a somewhat unlikely setting, cities are excellent environments for keeping bees if permitted by municipal code. This course will introduce students to the basic concepts and terminology associated with urban beekeeping, as well as the equipment necessary for keeping a successful hive. Students will learn what steps are necessary for establishing their own hive and ensuring its success over the ensuing beekeeping season. This course will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and hands on.

Students will install a package of bees into a new hive body in an urban setting. Students will have the opportunity to work with the equipment necessary for establishing a hive
Date: 2010-08-28

Title: GreenBiz Innovation Forum 2010
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Description: Is your business well positioned to take advantage of the convergence of innovation and sustainability as a fundamental strategy?
Join leaders in sustainability and GreenBiz.com for a landmark event, the GreenBiz Innovation Forum. The GreenBiz Innovation Forum is the first event for global companies focusing on how to embed innovation into their DNA to achieve both environmental and business goals.

What sustainable innovation means — including technology, product, service, and business model innovation — and how it is becoming core to business strategy
How companies manage for innovation, including the internal and external partners needed for success, mapping pathways and overcoming barriers, and utilizing tools and technologies to accelerate implementation.
Key success factors for making your company a sustainability innovation leader.
Presented in collaboration with Adaptive Edge, a leader in sustainability future thinking and innovation, the GreenBiz Innovation Forum features an innovative program, combining world-class discussions, facilitated workshops, hands-on exercises, and small-group consultation to provide you with insights and tools that can be put to work inside any company. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own green innovation challenges to the Forum to share — and learn — with others.

Start Date: 2010-10-19
End Date: 2010-10-20

Title: Green Home & Living Show
Location: Portland Expo Building
Description: From simple solutions for reducing energy bills, to the latest green products and services, you’ll find it all at The 2nd Annual Maine Green Home & Living Show. Visitors can check out over 175 eco-exhibits while gathering information and inspiration from seminars, demonstrations and other activities for all ages and every shade of green.
Start Date: 2010-10-23
End Date: 2010-10-24

Title: Northwest Environmental Conference & Trade Show
Location: Red Lion Hotel Jantzen Beach
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Description: 2010 Northwest Environmental Conference & Trade Show is the premiere venue where Northwest environmental professionals update their knowledge on regulations, interact with peers on problem solving, get CEU credits and additional training and access vendors. This is the perfect time to increase your company’s vicinity and gain two days of exposure to a very receptive audience. With over 400 environmental professionals attending, the exposure for your company to a concentrated group of diverse environmental leaders and professionals will provide you with a great return on your investment.
Start Date: 2010-12-6
End Date: 2010-12-7

Title: Rainwater Revival
Location: Roger Hanks Park, Dripping Springs, Texas, USA
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Description: A brainstorm of the Hays County Water Conservation Working Group, The Rainwater Revival supports the mission to spread the good word on rainwater harvesting and water conservation, the importance of which grows with our ever increasing population.

Date: 2010-10-9

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: Alternative Energy & Building Efficiency Conference & Exhibition
Location: Schaumburg, IL
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Description: Alternative Energy & Building Efficiency West is a completely unique event because we are bringing the Alternative Energy industry together and integrating it with the Energy Efficient Building industry.These events (Boston, Santa Clara, Chicago) will draw Attendees from throughout North America. AE&BE is the Show for promoting Alternative Energy technologies along with products for constructing energy efficient buildings. Energy efficiency and sustainability is a major part of any alternative energy design and thus these two industries complement each other.

Date: 2010-9-24

Title: Earth & Fire: clean, affordable, heat
Location: Coquille, OR
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Description: In Russia, Scandinavia and much of Northern Europe houses are heated by huge upright brick stoves, often floor to ceiling, weighing several tons. Some incorporate a bread oven, some a cooking stove. Known as Russian Stoves, Finnish heaters etc., they can be faced with decorative tiles (kachelofn). From a single daily firing with wood, they provide 24 hour slow heat to the whole house. They are clean burning and use little fuel. In North America until now your only choices have been to pay $10-25,000 to a specialist mason or buy a kit shipped from Finland and try to get it right yourself. Flemming and Karen Abrahamsson, famous for this stove work in Denmark, will come from Copenhagen to offer an 8-day professional course, possibly the first ever in the Western States. They will explore how owner-builders can use European traditional geometrics with adobe and Oregon Cob for a much cheaper version. Limit is 10 participants – so reserve yours space early!

Start Date: 2010-9-23
End Date: 2010-9-30

Title: Natural Building Workshops with Michael Smith
Location: Boonville, CA
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Description: I’ve got two week-long natural building workshops coming up in the next few months. There are still openings in both of them, and I would appreciate help getting the word out quickly, since the first workshop which is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Both workshops cover multiple wall systems using earth and straw as well as earthen plasters and more. They will be excellent opportunities to learn a lot of natural building systems in a short time, including techniques that are appropriate for remodeling existing structures.

The first is June 14-19 in Covelo (Northern Mendocino County)

We’ll be building a bath house/sauna addition to a straw bale house on a small herb farm. Wall systems will be cob, slipstraw or light straw-clay, clay wattle, and wattle and daub. The cost of the workshop is $450-$600 sliding scale, including all meals and camping. For more info or to register, phone Monelle at 707-354-0176 or email gaiaspirit9@gmail.com.

The second is August 7-14 here at Emerald Earth

We’ll mainly be working on our new common house, a large to-code hybrid building which is about halfway done. We’ll be building cob, slipstraw, clay wattle, and slip-and-chip walls, as well as building an earthbag retaining wall, pouring an earthen floor, doing base and finish earthen plasters and clay aliz paint. The cost is $640 including all meals and camping. For more details, see our web site: www.emeraldearth.org, email workshops@emeraldearth.org, or call 707-972-3096.

peace and gratitude,
Michael G. Smith
Start Date: 2010-08-07
End Date: 2010-08-13