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Tuesday February 3rd |
4:30 to 5:00: Check in and get food, 5:00 to 6:00: Presentation, 6:00 to 7:15: Program Discussion/ Questions, Answers, Comments, Free, Odin’s Hammer Conference Room 2261 Fifth Street, Berkeley. Dinner included at no charge if you RSVP by the deadline. Green Remodelers Guild Presents: Solar Energy Systems Speaker: Gary Gerber Sun Light & Power Co. Learn all about photovoltaic (PV) systems:
RSVP to: Wes Sullens
at wsullens@kema-xenergy.com
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Tuesday February 3rd |
6:30 8:30 pm, at Jillian's in the Metreon, 101 4th Street, Suite 170 San Francisco Solar Happy Hour Phone: 415.369.6100 http://ncsea.c.tep1.com/maabS0qaa3Sg6a4tAhAb/ Organized by Zach Nobel, zach@sunsolver.com |
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Wednesdays
January 7th - March 3rd |
11:30am - 1:00pm, Free, lunch is included, in the Reuse Education Center Recycletown, 500 Mecham Road, (at the Sonoma County Central Landfill) Building with Used Building Materials . . . A Lecture Series As part of a grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Garbage Reincarnation will host a lecture series about used building materials. Sessions will be held every other Wednesday from Contractors as well as private homeowners and the general public are invited to attend this lecture series, to learn how to use used building materials in home construction and other creative projects. Participants are encouraged to attend all the sessions, but it is not required. Following is a schedule of session dates and topics:
To RSVP, or for more information, please contact Brian at (707) 795-1395 or www.garbage.org |
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Thursday - Thursday February 5th - February 26th |
6:00pm - 8:00pm, YWCA of Oakland, 1515 Webster Street Oakland, CA The Eco-City Sessions This six-week course taught by eco-visionary Richard Register is open to anyone interested in helping to create a better world for people and nature through the reshaping of the built human infrastructure. Basic ecocity theory will be presented, as well as an overview of the city in evolution, the city in nature, the city in history and the city today. We will focus on an ecocity toolbox of reshaping methods and strategy guidelines for activism. Come prepared to listen, think, ask questions and get to work drawing, mapping and testing out your new ideas! Ecocity Builders Email kleighmi@flash.net Phone 510-419-0850 Website http://www.ecocitybuilders.org |
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Friday February 6th |
Noon - 1:30pm, Lunch is $9 - includes optional tour of CoHousing community Swan's Market CoHousing Common House 930 Clay Street, Oakland (Between 9th & 10th Streets) Sustainable Business Alliance Networking Lunch Entry directions at front gate. Registration is required!! We can only accommodate 40 people at lunch. If you want to attend, please sign up now at the link below. RSVP: http://sustainablebiz.org/cgi-script/CSMailto/forms/FebruaryLunchSignup.htm |
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Saturday February 7th |
10:00 am - 12:00 pm, $5, Fountain Room San Ramon Community Center 12501 Alcosta Boulevard San Ramon Green Building Features and Materials for Home Remodeling Projects
Sponsored
by: County of Contra Costa & City of San Ramon |
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Thursday February 12th |
7:00pm - 10:00 pm, $35, 812 Page Street, Berkeley, CA Introduction to Sustainable Landscape Design Instructors: Karen Butts & Rebecca Smith Create an environmentally-friendly oasis in your yard using the principles of sustainability. Learn the fundamentals of the design, construction and maintenance of a sustainable landscape. Use of native plants and recycled materials, water conservation techniques, and integrated pest management will be covered. For more info please visit http://www.bldgeductr.org . |
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Friday
- Friday
February 13th - 27th |
Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand 2 Week Natural Building Workshop in Northern Thailand Help Thailand's leading earthen builders create their home and seed-saving center. Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand (at Ban Mea Jo) Instructors/Facilitators: Jon Jandai (Thailand), Thai (Thailand), Peggy Reents (USA), and Michel Spaan (Holland). Join Thailand's leading earthen builders on their new land and sustainable seed-saving center. Friends and supporters will join from many countries to play in the mud and create 3 earthen dwellings at this tropical paradise. This workshop will also help raise funds to pay off the land and be debt-free. The huts will include adobe, bamboo, and wattle and daub. Materials will be from the land itself including: earth, rice straw and husk, bamboo, water, round wood, thatch, and stone. Other topics will include seed-saving and organic gardening. A little about Jon Jandai...Thailand’s leading earthen builder who has inspired thousands of fellow villagers to move toward a simpler, happier way of life. For more information visit http://www.kleiwerks.com |
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Sunday
Feburary 15th |
11:00am to 5:00pm, $5 - $25, 5801 Fleming Ave at Seminary/Foothill in the backyard, in East Oakland, (possible greywater.pond down the street) Greywater Workshop Help with a constructed wetland installation. Hands-on plumbing to garden hose For more information call 510.496.6023 |
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Monday
- Saturday
February 16th - 21st |
$600 US, Rancho Mastatal, Costa Rica Renewable Energy for the Developing World -- Hands On SEI (Solar Energy International) presents a special opportunity to study renewable energy in a beautiful natural setting in Costa Rica! Rancho Mastatal is an environmental learning and sustainable living center, retreat and lodge located in the last virgin rainforest of Costa Rica's Puriscal County. This workshop will be open to only 20 students, so register early. This six-day workshop will include classroom sessions and labs and have a strong hands-on component. The workshop will focus on three main areas: solar electricity, solar hot water, and solar cooking. There will also be survey coverage of wind and hydro-electric systems, and the social and financial issues surrounding RE in the developing world. Our focus will be on simple system that work in the real-word conditions in less overdeveloped countries. For more info or to register, see www.solarenergy.org Solar Energy International PO Box 715 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-963-8855 Fax: 970-963-8866 sei@solarenergy.org For info on Rancho Mastatal, lodging, travel see: http://ncsea.c.tep1.com/maabS0qaa3Sg7a4tAhAb/ Lodging, food, and local information: Tom McDonald, Tropical Adventures in Education LLC E-mail: tae2001@hotmail.com Phone: 206-660-4193 |
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Wednesday February 18th 
Building |
6:00 pm reception, 6:30 pm lecture, Donation $3 - $7 PG&E's Pacific Energy Center 851 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103 ADPSR's Building Ecology Forum: co-sponsored by Pacific Energy Center The 1% Solution John Peterson principal of Peterson Architects as well as Founder & Chairman of Public Architecture, a non-profit. While many-perhaps most-architects give of their expertise from time to time, the profession as a whole has not structured its pro bono endeavors as clearly as has, say, the legal profession. In conversation with architects across the country, Public Architecture is developing the notion of the "1% Solution"- the goal of devoting 1% of all architects' working hours, on a nation-wide basis, to matters of public service. Based on a 40-hour workweek, the 1% Solution represents a modest 20 hours per year per person. Were every architecture firm in the U.S. to sign on, however, the collective resources would be the equivalent of a 2500 person firm working full time for the public good: 5,000,000 hours of work in the public interest annually. Call ADPSR 510-845 1000 or to confirm event dates and topics. |
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Wednesday
February 18th |
6:30pm - 9:00pm, $35 for NARI members (if reserved by deadline) $45 for non-members or walk-ins. First time guests are free, but only IF they call to reserve by 2/13/04 (limited to one per company, and they must be a "prospective member". Santa Clara's Network Meeting Center, 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA. Building
Green in the South Bay:
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Sunday
- Wednesday
February 22nd - 25th |
Maho Bay Camps, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, 28 AIA credits available! Biomimicry and Architecture What you'll learn:
What you'll do:
What you'll take home:
Reserve your spot
today! For additional information on the course, visit http://www.biomimicry.net/virgin_islands.htm
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Tuesday
February 24th |
5:30pm - 7:45pm, $8 for SBA members, $10 for non-members, Free organic hors d'oeuvres and cash bar, Oakland City Hall, 14th Street and Broadway Alameda County Green
Business Program and the Sustainable Business Alliance present:
Register Online or call Susan Sakaki, (510) 531-5377 |
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Saturday
February 28th |
9:00am - 5:00pm, free, Morning refreshments and a catered dinner will be provided, .at a current project in Paso Robles, CA Semmes and Co. Builders, Inc. and the San Luis Sustainability Group are sponsoring A Straw Bale Home Building Workshop This hands-on, interactive workshop is open to all who wish to learn about the methods of straw bale construction. Space is limited, so please RSVP soon! To reserve a spot and obtain site directions contact Ryan Herchenroether Office Manager Semmes and Co. Builders, Inc. at 805-466-6737 ext 201, or email ryanh@semmesco.com or visit our website for more information, www.semmesco.com. |
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