9:00 am – The River That Made Seattle
Once teeming with bountiful salmon and fertile plains, Seattle’s Duwamish River drew both Native peoples and settlers to its shores over centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Unfortunately, the very…
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10:30am – The Need for Affordable, Sustainable Housing
We have dual climate and affordable housing emergencies bearing down on us as a community and a world. In order to be truly sustainable, our communities must make note of…
10:30am – Concrete Carbon Solutions
The top 50 architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) firms, and other key professionals responsible for well over one trillion dollars of global annual construction have rallied around establishing building sector emissions…
12:00pm – Blowing the Lid Off Affordable Net Zero Housing
The C Street Co-op packs a punch: Affordable Housing at 60% AMI? Check. Affordable homeownership? Check. Permanently affordable homeownership? Check. Net Zero Energy? Neighborhood walkability? And all this with about…
12:00pm – How Buildings Can Reverse Climate Change
Emissions arising from manufacturing building materials for North American homes add around 65 million metric tonnes of GHGs every year. And the drive to improve energy efficiency in homes may…
2:00pm – Housing Solutions Across the Edge
Well before the current housing crisis, creative developers and grassroots communities were busy advancing a broad movement. Largely inspired to create housing, also moved to establish a profound sense of…
2:00pm – Climate Change, IAQ and Energy Efficiency
Climate change, wildfires, excessive heat and a life-threatening pandemic - life as we have known it, no longer exists. Many people from all walks of life and who live in…
9:00am – Single Family Electrification Retrofits
The benefits of electrifying your home are numerous: improved health from reducing air pollution inside your home, increased comfort from using heat pump heating and cooling, and lowering your impact…
9:00am – Strategic Energy Planning for Resilience
The focus of this session is on best practices for developing a strategic energy plan that is centered on equitable outcomes, while promoting community energy resilience. Learn more about recent…
10:30am – Interrupting the Wood Waste Stream, for Good
Significant amounts of usable wood are going to landfills and being burned in our region. (300,000 tons of clean wood go to waste in King County, alone, each year.) Additionally,…
10:30am – A Landscape Befitting a Legacy
When a Bainbridge Island client approached her about working on the home they were building to reflect their lifelong passion for art and environmental sustainability, Hoda Sheikh, founder and owner…
12:00pm – Transforming the Way We Deliver Hot Water
What if we could cut greenhouse gas emissions, invest in underserved communities, and create thousands of good-paying jobs? Turns out we can by leading water heating into the future. We…