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Sustainabilitylive! 2011

May 31, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Sustainabilitylive! 2011 was held between May 24th and 26th in Birmingham, Alabama. Sustainabilitylive! is the home of five leading environment exhibitions, including BEX, ET, IWEX, NEMEX and SB - The Event.

These exhibitions included hundreds of exhibitors, as well as seminars, conferences and interactive features. The show was well attended and the seminars were full to capacity.

Sustainabiltylive has been of great benefit to attendees and exhibitors. Sarah Boulton of Nomenca Ltd said, "As our first time exhibiting we have been amazed at how busy our stand has been with a fantastic range of opportunities, leads and contacts being made in both our core business and new clients."

For more information click here.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

Green California Summit Education Program

April 03, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The largest conference devoted to green government, the Green California Summit & Exposition is coming up on April 19 & 20 (pre-summit workshops on April 18) at the Sacramento Convention Center, Sacramento, California. The general session, keynotes and the exhibit hall with over 200 vendors are free.

The Green Market is a media sponsor for the event and our readers qualify for a 20% discount on the entire Summit which includes the education program.

The world watches California’s strategies, from green economic development at the local level, to the new CalGreen building code which is now mandatory, to a wide range of vital green initiatives. The Summit provides the unique opportunity for those in government, education, non-profit and the private sector to exchange ideas and to learn together.

Keynotes and featured speakers include:

-Terry Tamminen, who served as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and architect of the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

-Margret Kim, Deputy Secretary and Special Counsel for Green Business Development and International Partnerships at CalEPA, will address global competition for green innovation and jobs.

-Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson will discuss the new Greenwise initiative which aims to “transform Sacramento into the Emerald Valley.”

-Elton B. Sherwin, Jr., the Senior Managing Director of Ridgewood Capital and author of "Addicted to Energy—A Venture Capitalist’s Perspective on How to Save our Economy and Our Climate."

Pre-summit full-day workshop topics on April 18 include how to run a green building, LEED project management and a half-day seminar on the CalGreen building code. There will be 15 expert educational panels addressing topics including water management, renewable energy, facilities management and green purchasing.

For information or to register go to www.green-technology.org/gcsummit or call 626-577-5700. Green Market readers enter promo code GRMARKET when registering to recieve a 20% reduction.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit

March 24, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, entitled Innovate, Generate, Integrate, is an invitation-only event for senior executives, policy-makers and investors. The goal is to identify and address key issues facing the clean energy sector, and to help decision-makers identify opportunities that will enable them to succeed. The Summit will be held on April 4-7, 2011 at the Pierre in New York City.

Topics discussed at the conference are structured around the three key challenges of the clean energy industry:

Technology development
Building a clean energy infrastructure
Integrating into the world’s energy system

The list of confirmed speakers include:

Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Lab·

Yehudit "Dita" Bronicki, CEO/Managing Director, Ormat·

Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership·

Charles "Chad" O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman, Bank of America·

Michael G. Morris, Chairman/CEO, American Electric Power·

Rick Needham, Director Green Business Opportunities, Google·

Jonathan Silver, Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, US Dept. of Energy·

Marcelo Tokman, Head of Gov Relations, Vestas Latam & Former Minister of Energy, Chile

To see the full agenda click here.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

Green California Summit 2011

March 14, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The Green Market is proud to be an outreach partner for the fifth Green California Summit. This event is focused on identifying strategies and technologies that offer both economic and environmental benefits. The 2011 summit will take place at the Sacramento Convention Center on April 18-20.

Sustainability is increasingly being mandated or incentivized and as sustainability moves from concept to implementation, the government of California is leading the way. The Golden State has abundant renewable resources and an unmatched combination of forward-thinking green policy, technology expertise, voter support and purchasing power. Even in recession, it is one of the world’s largest economies. The right partnerships between the public and private sectors can enable California to develop a high-tech, high wage green economy.

The Green California Summit has emerged as the state’s most important annual forum for innovations in policy, technology and practice. With over 200 exhibitors, and more than 6,000 attendees expected, the 2011 Summit is shaping up to be the biggest green government conference ever.

Led by an Advisory Board that includes leaders from government and industry, the Summit brings to life the best in green policy and practice through education sessions, keynote presentations, an Expo featuring green products and services and the Summit’s annual Leadership Awards.

The Summit is the place to learn directly from policy makers, government agencies, facilities managers, architects, engineers and product suppliers. They will share valuable information about the future and how to make the most of what is coming. Educational sessions will cover topics ranging from energy efficiency and green purchasing, to plans for a smart grid and green economic development. New for 2011 is the “CALGreen Academy,” a special series of sessions focused on California’s new mandatory green building code.

The theme of the 2011 Summit is “Green Paths to Economic Recovery,” a topic that will be addressed in a variety of ways – from sessions highlighting the savings attainable through energy and water efficiency to a keynote presentation on green job creation by venture capitalist Elton B. Sherwin, Jr., author of “Addicted to Energy – A Venture Capitalist’s Perspective on How to Save our Economy and Our Climate.” General session attendees will also have a chance to get an update on the Greenwise Sacramento intiative from Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Readers of The Green Market will benefit from a 20 percent discount (group discounts are also available). For information or to register go to www.green-technology.org/gcsummit or call 626-577-5700. Green Market readers should enter the promo code GRMARKET when registering.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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2010 Green Schools Summit Workshop & Conference

October 03, 2010 Add Comment Edit

On October 4 & 5, the Colorado chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is holding an event known as the Green Schools Summit. The two day event will feature a workshop and conference.

Workshop

On October 4, between 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM, there will be a half-day preconference workshop titled Green Your District, Your Schools, and Your Teaching.

This workshop will capitalize on the experiences of three local experts. Interactive activities will keep participants engaged and provide opportunities for networking with other professionals. This workshop endeavors to help provide the resources needed to improve existing sustainability initiatives or to build a program from the ground up.

Brian Dunbar, Director, Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University will present the first segment about how to develop an SMS, SDG, and partner-enhanced integrated sustainable design.

Bill Franzen, SAGE 2 Associates, LLC is responsible for the second segment, he will focus on the process, importance, and benefits of green school design and operations.

Farah McDill, Green School Specialist will conduct the final segment. She will focus on the end-users, the teachers and students, and how they can best understand the built environment of educational facilities, through building-focused sustainability clubs and behavior change.

Reception

On October 4, between 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM there will be an evening networking reception that is open to the public (cash bar).

Conference

On October 5, between 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM there will be a full day educational conference providing professional development and continuing education credits. The conference is called the 2010 Green Schools Summit: Graduate to Green

The conference offers three tracks: Design (for architects, engineers, contractors and those involved in construction), Maintenance (for district personnel including facilities, administrators, energy managers) and Curriculum (for teachers, parents, students and eco-advocates). View Session Descriptions

There will also be updates from U.S. Green Building Council’s national green schools movement, Governor’s Energy Office, and the Colorado Department of Education.

Companies that work with schools are being asked to sponsor a school district to help them attend the Green Schools Summit.

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Montreal 2010 World Energy Congress

September 16, 2010 1 Comment Edit

The World Energy Congress is committed to working toward responsible growth that reconciles economic development, environmental protection, and the reduction of global inequalities.

The 2010 Congress, was held in Montreal, Québec (Canada) between September 13 -16. The World Energy Congress is the premier international multi-energy forum with exhibitors from the field. Every three years the World Energy Council organizes the Congress. It brings together approximately 3500 top world leaders in the field of energy, coming from industry, governments, and international organizations, as well as the media, universities and energy industry associations.

Throughout the duration of the conference, at precisely 8:40 AM, a well known speaker addressed the conference audience. On Monday, it was Daniel Yergin, the chairman of the IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Prize,” a history of the oil industry. On Tuesday it was Fatih Birol, the IEA chief economist and the principal author of the much-awaited annual World Energy Outlook. On Wednesday, Lester R. Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute. And on Thursday the concluding day of the Congress, Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organization.

Special efforts have been made to ensure that at this years Congress includes developing nations, youth and the public. Beyond discussions about the future of energy prices the Congress discussed some very contentious issues including assistance to the developing world.

It is more than a bit ironic that as OPEC was celebrating its 50th anniversary, the world's energy leaders were convening to discuss alternatives to fossil fuels. Although all the major names in the energy industry were present at the Congress, OPEC was conspicuously absent.

The energy industry is ready to begin building a future beyond oil, however, due to the urgency of the climate change issue, governments will have to get actively involved in the growth of clean energy.
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Conference on Pricing Carbon Emissions

September 13, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Wesleyan University, in conjunction with the Price Carbon Campaign, an umbrella organization of climate-policy advocates, is convening a fall conference that will address new approaches to carbon pricing. Wesleyan University’s College of the Environment was established in 2009 to help students become better stewards of the Earth.

Wesleyan's Carbon Pricing Conference begins Friday, November 19, 2010 and runs through to Sunday, November 21, 2010. Headline speakers include climatologist Dr. James Hansen, author-activist Bill McKibben, and environmental-justice lawyer and advocate Angela Johnson Meszaros.

Carbon pricing is vital to reducing CO2. According to economist Charles Komanoff, director of the Carbon Tax Center, “only with a predictable and steadily rising price on CO2 emissions—one that rewards sustainable forms of energy without harming Americans—will the US be able to curb our carbon emissions and oil dependence. A direct and transparent fee on fuels’ carbon content will give entrepreneurs and families the incentives they need to put industries and households on a profitable low-carbon diet.”

Despite the need for large scale reductions of CO2, carbon emissions continue to increase and this is destabilizing the Earth’s climate and driving global warming. The conspicuous absence of legislative progress in the US this summer makes the carbon emissions pricing conference prescient.

According to Laura Bonham, deputy director of Progressive Democrats of America.“With the continuing failure of the cap/trade/offset mechanism to gain support in Congress, it’s time for climate policy makers and concerned citizens to rethink carbon-pricing options. This conference will allow a broad spectrum of climate activists to seek a common agenda that will define the basic principles of good climate legislation, beginning with putting a clear price on carbon.”

A list of confirmed speakers and registration information can be found at www.pricingcarbon.org/.
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The Green Building Focus Conference and Expo

August 28, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Education was the focus of the 2010 Green Building Focus Conference and Expo. The event was a showcase for the latest in sustainable building development.

The Green Building Focus was held between August 24th and 27th, and hosted by the city of Birmingham, Alabama. The city of Birmingham is the largest construction hub in the Southeast, and it is quickly becoming the region’s hub for green building activity as well.

With the growing demand for green building, this year’s conference sought to inform and educate the region’s architects, engineers, home owners, construction professionals, faculty and students.

The Green Building Focus explored recent trends, technologies and materials available in the green building movement. The conference also addressed topics including, “The Greening of Corporate America,” “Private and Federal Incentives for Green Projects,” and “International Green Construction Code.”

There were workshops and a business expo with more than 150 vendors showcasing environmentally friendly products and services and featuring some of the world's leading authorities on sustainable development.

Speakers included Karan Grover, an internationally acclaimed architect and winner of the 2004 USGBC platinum award for greenest building on Earth. Another conference speaker, Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos said, "It takes leadership from the top all the way down to the public buying into it."

Despite the challenges reviewed by Mayor Petelos, the Green Building Focus was a window into the innovations that are driving the growth of green homes.
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The Clean Energy Manufacturing Summit

June 25, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The Clean Energy Manufacturing Summit (CEMS) is scheduled for June 25, 2010, it is a special feature of The 5th Annual Michigan Energy Fair. The CEMS is hosted by The Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA), a non-profit organization that educates, advocates, promotes, and publicly demonstrates renewable energy technologies. The Mission of GLREA is to increase the mainstream use of renewable energy technologies and sustainable energy practices

Featured speakers include Obama administration energy expert Matt Rogers, ‘Senior Advisor’ to Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and US Senator Debbie Stabenow will also address the summit.

The CEMS will host a pannel of experts who will discuss topics of interest for businesses. The event will also be of interest to professionals, local governments, students, and all citizens interested in the latest successes and visions of Michigan’s Clean Energy Sector.

Summary Agenda Friday, June 25th

11:00am Opening Address by Governor Jennifer Granholm

11:30am Address by Matt Rogers, Senior Advisor to US Department of Energy Secretary

11:30am Battery Manufacturing Panel

1:00pm Address by US Senator Debbie Stabenow

1:15pm Solar Manufacturing Panel

2:00pm Wind Energy Manufacturing Panel

3:00pm Energy Efficiency Programs, Incentives and Business Opportunities

4:00pm Review of Incentives and Policies

The Michigan Energy Fair runs Friday, June 25th- Sunday June 27th and is Michigan's largest 'Energy Event', with over 80 exhibitors, 60 workshops.

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