Building Sustainability  is a 2-day program of live and web-based presentations, panel discussions and workshops on Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30, 2010.

The Friday night conference opener, Onstage at McKim: Talking About Green Building, features an entertaining and informative introduction to green building at McKim Theatre with both on-screen and on-stage presenters.  The College of the Rockies campus in Kimberley will be host to ten different workshops on Saturday, with an exciting range of presenters.  Entries in the design competition will also be featured throughout the conference.

The full conference package, includes the Friday evening event, 4
workshops and lunch on Saturday, access to the Green Building
Showcase.  Full package price is $75 until January 15, after which it
is $95.  Single admission to Onstage at McKim is $10, tickets
available at Black Bear Books & Video in Kimberley, or at the door
for $12.  Single workshop seats will be available (space permitting)
after January 18th.  Single workshop fees are $20.

A full conference schedule can be download HERE.

For more information: Contact the Wildsight Kimberley branch at 250-427-2535 or email kimcran@wildsight.ca.

To register: Contact the College of the Rockies locally at 250-427-7116 ext 3752 or toll-free at 1-877-489-2687 ext. 3752.

Achieving sustainability requires a multi-disciplinary approach and a broad social commitment. It also requires the energy and passion of youth.

That’s why The Co-operators has launched an unprecedented partnership of business, academia and non-government organisations to bring together students from all fields of study from across Canada to develop and implement real sustainability solutions for their current lives and their future careers.

To register visit http://marketinsightsq42008.eventbrite.com/ now.

This quarter we focus on the green commercial real estate sector. What strategies are lenders using to assess risk? How can property owners mitigate losses to their asset value? What are the latest trends in green commercial real estate? Join us for a market overview, followed by panel discussion and keynote speaker.

This quarter’s panelists include:
Norm Taylor, Associate Vice President, Client Representation Group, Colliers International;
Bill Tucker, Managing Partner, Omicron and past president NAIOP;

For REALTORS®, staff, volunteers and visionaries, the Banff Western Connection has been a destination conference since 1994.

Powerful speakers, a dynamic trade show, first-class entertainment and unique networking opportunities deliver a valuable conference experience. With the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel as home base, delegates are surrounded by spectacular mountains and everything Banff National Park has to offer.

State of Fraser Basin Convention "The many faces of Sustainability"
Feb 19-20 2009. Vancouver Convention Centre

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:

May 15, 2008 - Make it Happen - Be Part of The Next Green Leap!