The oil and gas industries’ routinely flares and engineers vents release unexpectedly large amounts of methane gas despite emergent regulations. Yet the business opportunities from capturing those emissions and turning them into value could be worth tens of billions of dollars a year. Such business-led, market-driven methane abatement would also create large and rapid environmental benefits. In this 90-minute webinar, Amory Lovins will l...

SSF will be offering Master Classes in Sustainability taught by the leading practitioners from our webinars. These 2 hour live online events will teach you a set of actionable skills in important sustainability disciplines, such as financing resilience, using big data to answer sustainability questions, effective science communication techniques, energy project finance tools, and others. Please join me in an introductory webinar to learn about...

Solar energy can be used in several ways to heat water for domestic, commercial and industrial uses. Examples include photo voltaic cells to generate electricity for hot water heaters and both passive and active thermal solar systems for direct heat. With the cost of solar equipment dropping, there are significant savings in solar hot water, but what are the considerations in determining which technology is best for your situation? In this 60-...

Join American Public Health Association, PHI Center for Climate Change and Health, Island Press This year, 2017, is the American Public Health Association's "Year of Climate Change." Please hold the date for a very special kick-off webinar on "Climate Justice: Local, Tribal, Global, and Generational". You'll hear from speakers who are engaged in the fight for climate justice and healthy communities, to explore how climate justice is the best s...

Disaster risk reduction, development, diplomacy and defense communities have increasingly identified climate as a risk – and not just in the long term. For example, in the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, the Pentagon states that climate risk “poses immediate risks to national security.” But beyond acknowledging the risks involved, what do these communities actually do to address thes...

There is likely no disagreement that "objective and grounded" is a hard standard to meet when designing metrics to measure and characterize a complex socio-political-techno-economic enterprise, such as the future of transportation energy and fuels. Still, an objective, grounded approach that integrates diverse stakeholder viewpoints and facilitates coordination and responsiveness, begs for measures, even if at times they are qualitative rankin...

Alex Wilson, Founder, BuildingGreen Inc. and Resilient Design Institute, provides context for why we need to be considering resilience in looking at the built environment during the coming decades. Alex will give an overview of practical measures that can be implemented today to create more resilient buildings and communities. These measures include: • Improvements to the energy performance of building envelopes (ensuring that buildings w...

Often overlooked in the dialogue about how to combat climate change, yet vital to this discussion, are the metrics used for climate accounting. Relevant for the discussions at the upcoming Conference in Paris of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, these climate metrics lie at the heart of treaty negotiations, government policies, carbon registries, and corporate goal-setting. They are the basis for evaluating how bill...

Can individuals and small-scale initiatives really have an impact on global sustainability? In this webinar on September 25th, discover why changes to a community don't need to be large-scale and expensive to have a transformative impact. Join the Security and Sustainability Forum and Island Press for a special conversation with visionary architect and urban planner Jaime Lerner and City College Professor, architect and author, Hillary Brown,...

Get 1 AICP Credit (No. e 28330) What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? In this webinar we explore the vital relationship between healthy ocean environments and the coastal communities that depend on marine-based resources. Modern society is dependent upon ocean resources in more ways than people realize – from oil and gas extraction and wind energy, to global fisheries production,...