Rhoyal Roads University, Victoria, BC

Instructor Interdisciplinary Team of local Green/Natural Builders, LEED Project Developers, Alternative Energy and Systems designers, Futurists…and you!

http://ourecovillage.org/our-activities/education-2/royal-roads-university/

Tuition $63 CAD

Whether building community, building buildings, or building any kind of sustainable relationship …this is a participatory discussion for folks who wish to contribute to the development of a “Sustainability Mecca” in this local bio-region. Southern BC is becoming widely known as the Green Building capital and the south islands in particular have incredible innovation examples. With unique multi-featured green rezoning projects, conservation communities, sustainable food projects, LEED awarded buildings and neighbourhoods, and a wide example of ecological and green design….the community will come together to describe a number of examples and then to discuss how we might showcase this work in a more collective way. Possibilities include bringing together an international tour and developing a “Building As If People Mattered Conference” …..we each can be part of the process. The day includes a panel discussion with a wide variety of professionals who work on premier showcase projects locally.

Please bring your project work, literature, info booth, and consulting contact for sharing at this event.

Online

Instructor: Ann Edminster

http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2009/5/16/LEED-for-Homes-Tips-for-Successful-Projects

Tuition: FREE

Who could be more qualified than one of the principal authors of LEED for Homes to provide insight on the best ways to make the program work?

“LEED for Homes, like other rating systems, is an assessment tool. This means that while it provides some ‘how-to’ information (at the level of individual strategies or ‘credits’), it doesn’t offer any guidance for how to approach the design and construction of a high-performing home differently than a conventional project. Ann Edminster will offer some of that missing guidance in this webinar.”

It gets better. Not only do you not have to jet off to some city to sit in some auditorium during some high-priced conference to take this in… it’s free. Just sign up and it’s yours for the taking on June 2, at 2:00 pm Eastern (1:00 pm Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 am Pacific), right on your computer. A gift from GreenBuildingAdvisor.com.

The presenter, Ann Edminster, is a longtime green building mover and shaker. In addition to being one of the main people who developed LEED for Homes (she was its co-chair through most of the early days), she’s also a past member of the LEED Steering Committee, and a member and past co-chair of the USGBC’s Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group. She co-authored Efficient Wood Use In Residential Construction: A Practical Guide to Saving Wood, Money, and Forests, has written bunches of technical papers and articles, and has been an invited speaker at dozens of regional, national, and international green building conferences over the past 15 years. She’s the founding principal of the environmental design consulting firm Design AVEnues.