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Residential solar sales training, materials, estimate calculations and presentation tools. If you're going to sell solar, we give you all the technical training and sales tools you need. This residential solar sales training course is well-documented for your reference. It gives you what you need to know quickly and easily.
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Learn about your options for turning sunlight into electricity. You can power your home or business, and get credit for putting your extra power into the grid.
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Free 3-hour workshop about the environmental and economic benefits of reusable transport packaging.
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THE FORECASTLE FESTIVAL is where the Midwest connects™. Founded in Louisville, KY, the annual gathering is equal parts Music, Art, and Activism. A symposium for musicians, artists, and environmentalists, Forecastle connects the progressive Midwest. The 2009 fest is expected to draw 10,000 patrons to the Louisville Waterfront ~ part of a scenic, $60 million dollar riverfront investment which draws 1.5 million visitors a year. With national headliners and expanded line-ups, the festival will provide an unforgettable experience for all Forecastle travelers, converging in Louisville from the Midwest and beyond.
July 10th - 12th
The Riverfront Belvedere
Louisville, Ky 40202
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Green building experts from the 7group consultancy and integrative design pioneer Bill G. Reed provide a clear, practical manual on the whole-building approach to sustainability.
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Natural Logic CEO Gil Friend brings together 52 crucial facts and insights leaders must know to successfully go green. This book delivers quick, plain-English explanations that executives, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs can actually use, no matter what kind of businesses they’re running, or what their environmental and profit goals are.
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Replete with charts, diagrams and photos, this new guide can serve as a one-stop resource for designers.
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Writing from direct experience in building a sustainability program at the Aspen Skiing Company, in "Getting Green Done" Auden Schendler offers a peek under the hood of the green movement, showing what it means to implement climate solutions in the real world.
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In this new book, brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed over two dozen "ecopreneurs" from a broad range of industries -- home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage, energy, real estate, finance, and fashion -- to offer a rich source of wisdom for green businesses getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.
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This report from the North American Green Purchasing Initiative of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation offers a primer on sourcing renewable energy, including six steps a buyer should follow to purchase green power.
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This 49-page report outlines the basics about on-site renewable energy generation. It also provides easy-to-understand explanations of how to take maximum advantage of incentive programs and public-private partnerships.
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An outline to designing, implementing and measuring the benefits of partnerships between companies and non-governmental organizations.
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This report from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Cement Sustainability Initiative summarizes the work thus far in the nearly 3-year-old effort by the council and the industry's largest companies to make global cement production cleaner and greener.
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The executive summary to this report asks: What would it take to aggressively scale up clean energy to have a major impact on job growth, energy independence and climate change over the next 10 years?
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This report from the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts explores how investments of $150 billion per year in energy efficiency, building retrofits, clean technologies and public transportation can create 1.7 million new jobs in the United States.
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This comprehensive report examines the array of water-saving opportunities available for the commercial, industrial and institutional sector (CII) to reduce water use in the nation’s most populous state. Although based on the water-saving potential in California, the report's recommendations are in many ways universal and the technologies can be applied to other regions.
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This brochure offers a guide to the objectives and benefits of the Eco-Patent Commons, a non-profit environmental information-sharing project created by IBM, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and a growing number of environmentally minded companies.
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A coalition of IT industry groups is seeking a LEED standard for datacenters with help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which has developed a draft for performance criteria.