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Saturday
April 3rd |
$17, Cañada College, Redwood City, CA Cañada Student ASID Chapter presents Green Design and Living Fair This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your products to current and future interior design professionals who specify products and/or refer clients to you. It will also provide you with the opportunity to promote your business to the general public. Great opportunity for active and passive solar people to network and promote solar business. To participate as a vendor or for more information contact Denise Maisel at Greendesign04@aol.com. |
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Saturday - Sunday April 3rd - 4th |
Community Education, Columbia College, Sonora, CA Introduction to Strawbale Construction Class This introductory class will include one day of classroom work covering the history of straw bale construction in the US, construction techniques, fire and moisture issues, materials and a virtual tour of straw bale structures. The second day will be a hand-on workshop in which participants actually construct a bale structure and learn wiring and stucco techniques. The class will be taught by Maurice and Joy Bennett, strawbale owner/builders and Executive Directors of the California Straw Building Association (CASBA). For registration call the Community Education department of Columbia College at 209-588-5144 or visit the Columbia College website at http://columbia.yosemite.cc.ca.us/ |
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Saturday
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April 3rd - 4th |
9:00am - 5:00pm, $185.00 Includes Information Booklet & Test Samples you make and take home. Forest Knolls, CA in West Marin County Natural Paints & Plasters This is a two-day workshop, or you may attend one day for $100 Gain experience making and applying natural paints, plasters, & finishes for interior and exterior surfaces. In this hands on workshop, we will be painting and plastering the living room of a conventionally built house. Highlights include dispersal methods of natural pigments, work with traditional adobe Alis (clay paint), kaolin plaster, and casein washes. Instructors: Meka Bunch and Shannon Simpson Enrollment Policy and Payment Information Workshops are on a first come first served basis and fill up quickly, with a minimum of 6 people and up to 12 maximum participants. A deposit of $80 is required to confirm your enrollment, with full payment due at the start of the workshop. Specify which workshop you want to attend, make checks or money orders payable to: Michael Bunch Mail deposits to: PO Box 671 Bolinas, CA 94924 For more information, email: mekaman333@Yahoo.com -OR- phone: 415 868-1965 Camping: Accommodations: Food @ Forest Knolls Workshops: Camp among the redwoods in Samuel P. Taylor State Park (approx. 3.5 miles away ). Reservations required, call: 415 488-9897 or 1-800 444-PARK or Reserve a room at the Valley Inn, San Geronimo 488-0105. Morning and afternoon Tea/Snacks will be provided. Lunch is potluck. Evening meals will be potluck and/or eat out locally in Lagunitas/Fairfax |
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Tuesday April 6th |
7:00pm - 10:00 pm, $35, 812 Page Street, Berkeley, CA Bamboo Building Instructor: Darrel DeBoer Strong as steel in tension, timber bamboo can grow three feet in a day, be sustainably harvested every year and uses a small fraction of the land required by trees. Turning greywater into a construction material is possible if you know how to work with it. Darrel will cover proper tool usage and joinery as well as design ideas that avoid the more difficult, time-consuming joints. For more info please visit http://www.bldgeductr.org . |
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Tuesday - Thursday April 6th - 8th |
Kellogg West Conference Center on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Davis, CA AEEES (The Association for Efficient Environmental Energy Systems) presents: Green Building Technologies Conference This conference is designed for contractors, builders, engineers, architects, utility staff and other professionals who want to increase their knowledge of Green Building technologies and expand their role in the industry. Workshop topics include: energy evaluation systems; geoexchange; solar technologies; other green building technologies; building commissioning; the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, focusing on one or more of the four LEED categories--Energy & Atmosphere, Indoor Environmental Quality, Materials and Resources and Water Efficiency. Presentations will cover the following: LEED Certified Green Building case histories from the Bren Engineering Building at UCSB, as well as the East End and EPA Buildings in Sacramento; water and water efficiency; air quality; recycling and use of recycled materials; green building products and services; geoxchange and other HVAC systems; energy efficiency; Green Building comfort, safety, health and efficiency as compared to a conventional structure; and overall green building design, construction, operation, maintenance, and monitoring considerations. The conference offers highly visible exhibit spaces and sponsorship opportunities. Early registration allows for broader exhibit space location selection. Contact Barbara Langlais at the AEEES office (Phone: 530-750-0135 or E-mail: info@aeees.org) if you would like to register to attend. For more program information or if you wish to learn more about exhibitor/sponsor opportunities, contact Guy Nelson, AEEES Conference Planner, at 541-994-4670 or gnelson181@aol.com. |
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Saturday April 10 |
10am - 1pm, $10 EC members, $15 general, no one turned away for lack of funds. Wildheart Gardens, 463 61st Street, @ Telegraph, Oakland. Introduction to Permaculture Come find out about using permaculture principles in your garden in this introductory class great for beginners and intermediate permaculture designers. We’ll cover the philosophy, ethics, and principles of permaculture. With a working permaculture garden tour and hands-on swale building. The class is taught by Christopher Shein. Christopher runs Wildheart Gardens, an edible, native, medicinal and other useful plant permaculture nursery, design and landscaping business in Oakland. He teaches at Merritt College, and helps run the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library and SPACE, as well as other urban agriculture projects. For more Info: 510/548-2220 x233. |
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Wednesday April 14th  
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6:00 pm reception, 6:30 pm lecture, Donation $3 members - $7 non-members no one turned away for lack of funds PG&E's Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103 ADPSR's Building Ecology Forum: co-sponsored by Pacific Energy Center, Solar Energy and Waste-to-Hydrogen Terry Galloway will discuss his new book Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer. Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house. The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices needed for the design, operation and maintenance of the solar home. Of equal interest to our audience may be Terry's career as a chemical engineer where he worked for may years on hazardous waste disposal and conversion of waste into Hydrogen. Angered by the fossilized direction of the Bush/Cheney Energy Plan, his group gave several hours of testimony on Hydrogen alternatives at the White House before Cheney's Energy Task Force. Terry R. Galloway: PhD Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA., President of Intellergy Corp. for 20 yrs, 10 years faculty University of California, Berkeley and Section Leader Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab., 125 technical publications, 2 books, 18 patents – all in the field of energy and environment. Call ADPSR 510-845-1000 to confirm event dates and topics. |
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Thursday
April 15th |
Refreshments 6:00pm to 6:30pm, Presentation: 6:30pm to 8:00pm, Free The Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Shifting From Green to Sustainable Design Dr. Ray Cole, internationally recognized expert on environmental building practices, leads an exploration of the changing environmental, technological, and cultural context of sustainable design and the way it may shape future building design. Dr. Cole will offer a more detailed presentation on this same topic the following morning, April 16. For more information and to register please visit: http://www.pge.com/pec/ |
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Friday April 16th |
Presentation: 9:00am to 1:00pm, Free The Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Shifting From Green to Sustainable Design Dr. Ray Cole, internationally recognized expert on environmental building practices, leads an exploration of the changing environmental, technological, and cultural context of sustainable design and the way it may shape future building design. Dr. Cole will offer a more detailed presentation on the same topic he covered the night of April 15. For more information and to register please visit: http://www.pge.com/pec/ |
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Friday-Sunday April 16th -18th |
$100-$175, Matilija Hot Springs, Ojai, CA Please register in advance to allow us to plan meals etc. The California Straw Building Association (CASBA) Spring Conference Keynote speaker is David Eisenberg - from the Develpmental Center for Apporpriate Technology in Tucson, AZ. Conference details are on the website: |
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Saturday
April 17th |
2:00-6:00pm, Free, Eco Design Resources Showroom: 633 Quarry Road, Ste. A San Carlos, CA 94070 Eco Design Resources' Spring Lecture Series presents Greg VanMechelen, Green Architect For more info call 650.591~1123 or visit www.ecodesignresources.com |
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Saturday April 24th  |
10:00am - 3:00pm, $45.00 plus $2 to instructor for materials, Class HG300 City College of San Francisco, Downtown Campus, Room 424 Energy Primer
for People Living around the Sun: Renewable Energy for Your Home To
register go to http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments/ed_programs.html
look under Continuing Education - Home & Garden, Class
#: HG300 or |
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Thursday
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April 30 - May 2, 2004 |
Thursday Evening Potluck & Check-in, Friday & Saturday 9-5 pm, Sunday 9-2 pm Cost: $185.00 Bolinas, CA in West Marin County Natural Building Primer: Straw Bale, Adobe, Cob/Cordwood & Light Straw Clay This is an exciting workshop for those wanting experience using a variety of natural building materials and techniques. Learn how multiple mediums work together, constructing simple outdoor walls in a unique camp setting with a view of MT. Tamalpias. An added highlight is the building of a Rumford style fireplace incorporated into the design! Instructors: Meka Bunch Note: Additional workshops may be added, May 15-16 and/or June 5-6. Enrollment Policy and Payment Information Workshops are on a first come first served basis and fill up quickly, with a minimum of 6 people and up to 12 maximum participants. A deposit of $80 is required to confirm your enrollment, with full payment due at the start of the workshop. Specify which workshop you want to attend, make checks or money orders payable to: Michael Bunch Mail deposits to: PO Box 671 Bolinas, CA 94924 For more information, email: mekaman333@Yahoo.com -OR- phone: 415 868-1965 Camping: Accommodations : Food for Bolinas Workshop: On site camping is provided for a flat fee of $25 or Reserve a room at Smiley's Schooner Saloon, 415 868-1311, downtown Bolinas. Morning and afternoon Tea/Snacks and Lunch, will be provided. Evening meals will be potluck and/or eat out in Bolinas. |
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