Light House Sustainable Building Centre - Events Feed

Solar and Wind Introductory Technical Course

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:03:34 -0700

Start: Oct 4 2008 - 8:00am

End: Oct 5 2008 - 7:00pm

RENEWABLE ENERGY – FUEL FOR THE FUTURE

Our next course will be Vancouver October 4th and 5th 2008.
Venue: Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University
500 Granville Street (corner of Granville & Pender)

Call (toll free) today 1 877 652 1442 to book your seat now.

In the next 15 minutes the sun will provide the earth with enough energy to supply all of humanity all of its energy requirements for the coming year!

Solar Freedom International would like to take you on a journey to discover how you can take advantage of this fact.

Film Presentation: Global Water Considerations

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:32:48 -0700

Start: Oct 9 2008 - 7:00pm

End: Oct 9 2008 - 9:00pm

Hosted by Metro Vancouver's Watershed Education team, these popular lectures and presentations are a forum for sharing knowledge and raising awareness of natural systems, capital works, and research relating to our drinking water supply. These programs examine current issues relevant to the management of Metro Vancouver's watersheds and assist in promoting sustainability within our region.

7 - 9 pm at the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. (Please see directions link below). The programs are adult-oriented. Admission by donation.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Endowment Lecture

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:45:58 -0700

Start: Oct 10 2008 - 6:00pm

End: Oct 10 2008 - 8:00pm

The Vancouver League and the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture present the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Endowment Lecture (Friday October 10, 2008 at 6:00pm in Robson Square):

Kongjian Yu, turenscape, Beijing, China
www.turenscape.com

Thanksgiving - Light House Closed

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:01:00 -0700

Start: Oct 11 2008 - 10:00am

End: Oct 13 2008 - 10:59am

Light House will be closed Saturday, October 11 - Monday, October 13 for Thanksgiving weekend.

Leadership For Change

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:43:02 -0700

Start: Oct 15 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Oct 15 2008 - 1:30pm

In partnership with UBC Continuing Studies and Vancity Credit Union, you can hear from key environmental and social leaders and learn their skills to create positive change.

Tzeporah Berman of enviro champion ForestEthics will outline how they took on billion dollar brand giant Victoria Secret and won, getting them to stop using old growth paper for their catalogues. To register visit www.hollyhockleadership.org/programs
or call 604-822-1444

The Pharos Project Green Materials Selection workshops- Vancouver

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:49:30 -0700

Start: Oct 16 2008 - 8:00am

End: Oct 16 2008 - 12:00pm

These half-day workshops tackle the issues and challenges inherent in understanding green building products. Through a focused lens of sixteen traits (wedges) of ecological concern, participants will learn about the influence of material selection on health, social justice and resource use. Join Cascadia's Research Director, Eden, for an overview of Pharos, including its operating principles, Framework - the performance metrics by which building products are evaluated - and how these can be applied to the day-to-day selection and specification process.

Vancouver (BC)

BC Home & Interior Design Show

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:47:24 -0700

Start: Oct 16 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Oct 19 2008 - 12:59pm

Light House will be closed from Thursday, October 16 - Sunday, October 19. Visit us instead at the BC Home & Interior Design Show at BC Place.

Solutions to Climate Change Inspired by Nature

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:38:58 -0700

Start: Oct 20 2008 - 2:36pm

End: Oct 20 2008 - 2:36pm

The Biomimicry Institute (www.biomimicryinstitute.org) would like to invite you to a very special conference covering the leading edge of climate change mitigation technologies. The conference is unusual in that it focuses on one of the fastest growing and most promising areas of climate change technology development: technologies inspired by models from the natural world.

This first-ever intensive will highlight new technological innovations inspired by 3.8 billion years of R&D which are helping us mitigate and adapt to a changing world, for example:

Sea-to-Sky Greenbelt from backyard to big wild

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:39:28 -0700

Start: Oct 21 2008 - 6:30pm

End: Oct 23 2008 - 9:00pm

You're invited to upcoming public
information sessions on the Sea-to-Sky Greenbelt
initiative!!

Canadian Environmental Leadership Program

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:17 -0700

Start: Oct 22 2008 - 6:00pm

End: Oct 29 2008 - 12:30pm

Offered for over 8 years, this seven day intensive program is held at the Hollyhock Centre on Cortes Island. You'll learn campaign,
communications, facilitation, leadership, personal development and group dynamics to help make you an effective leader for change.

To see the curriculum visit www.hollyhockleadership.org/programs

To register call 604-822-1444.

Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Introductory Workshop

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:52:13 -0700

Start: Oct 23 2008 - 8:30am

End: Oct 23 2008 - 4:30pm

The one-day introductory workshop provides a comprehensive
introduction to community-based social marketing and how it is being applied
throughout the world to foster sustainable behaviour. Those who attend the
introductory workshop will learn the five steps of community-based social
marketing (selecting behaviours, identifying barriers, developing strategies,
conducting a pilot, and broad scale implementation) and be exposed to numerous
case studies illustrating its use.

See attached pdf for details and registration form.

Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Advanced Workshop

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:33 -0700

Start: Oct 24 2008 - 8:30am

End: Oct 24 2008 - 4:30pm

Clifton Schooley - Guest Expert on Rammed Earth

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:04:21 -0700

Start: Oct 25 2008 - 2:00pm

End: Oct 25 2008 - 4:00pm

"Rammed Earth for Beautiful and Healthy Homes"

Clifton Schooley, Clifton Schooley & Associates

Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation in the Home

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:45:43 -0700

Start: Oct 28 2008 - 6:30pm

End: Oct 28 2008 - 9:30pm

This
workshop will give you a clear understanding of the wide spread effects
that electromagnetic radiation is having on human health. Learn what
electromagnetic radiation is, where it comes from and what health
symptoms and diseases it is causing. Understand how you can make your
home safe and protect you and your family from harmful exposure at
school and at work.

Laura Krohn - Guest Expert on LiveSmart BC

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700

Start: Nov 1 2008 - 2:00pm

End: Nov 1 2008 - 4:00pm

Details on this talk will be posted shortly.