The prevalence of sustainability reporting is growing and has converged around the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s most widely used framework. Participants of GRI-certified courses will receive their course completion certificates directly from GRI.

Green IT has become an industry buzzword, but what does it mean? This class will explain the importance of greener IT policies. Solutions to a greener IT infrastructure will also be explained with coverage of virtualization as a green tool, procurement, disposal of computers and better desktop power management.

Understand a comprehensive set of business issues defining California's solar industry. Examine topics such as grid-tied solar photo-voltaic (PV) technologies, economic, political, and structural environment of the industry. Learn project financing and how to start a new business or add solar to a current construction, real estate, or financing business. Build your solar network, identify key market players, organizations and events, develop a road map and plan the next steps for your business. Prepare to take advantage of the explosive growth projected over the next decade.

Join Northern California's most popular and scenic fully supported ride dedicated to fighting air pollution and finding treatments for asthma, emphysema, and lung cancer. Three "breath-giving" and fully-supported routes to choose from. Choose from a 30, 66, and 100-mile route that leads through the beautiful back roads of Marin and Sonoma counties. There are fully stocked rest stops, SAG crews and mechanics, and spirited volunteers to cheer you on. Riders then return to the Village to enjoy a relaxing afternoon with a catered lunch, live music, wine and beer garden, massages, team photos, and celebrate how they made a difference in the lives of those with lung disease. Register today!

Waterkeeper Alliance – the international champion of clean water and strong communities, with 190 programs on six continents – will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in New York, the birthplace of the Waterkeeper movement. The celebration will bring together Waterkeepers and their supporters from around the world, including the New York Clean Water Advocates Hudson Riverkeeper, NY/NJ Baykeeper, and Long Island Soundkeeper, to commemorate a decade of clean water advocacy.

Waterkeeper Alliance Chairman and Founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will deliver a keynote address. Live entertainment will be provided by Daryl Hall of the legendary pop music duo Hall & Oates.

An organic and locally sourced hors d’oeuvres menu, including raw bar. Open bar with beer, wine and eco-friendly cocktails.

The Winter Garden is easily accessible by New York City mass transit. Parking is also available. Complimentary round-trip ferry service from Liberty Landing, at 80 Audrey Zapp Dr. in Jersey City, NJ, will also be provided.

Tickets are $75 per person. Visit www.waterkeeper.org to purchase tickets. For more information, call (914) 674-0622, ext. 30, or email events@waterkeeper.org.

www.boghill.com eco holliday weeks - experience cobbuilding (earth building technique) every morning, then there's loads of different nature and environmental activities in the afternoons.

Explore the possibilities of making art from used, discarded, discovered, demolished and recovered objects and materials. In this course, you create projects with found materials using a wide variety of approaches and methods including collage, assemblage, installation, video, photography, and performance. In addition, you learn about the historical and contemporary ideas behind the use of found materials in art, including social and political commentary, surrealism and the dream world, and nostalgia and memory. (June 29 to Aug. 6, Mon. and Thurs.) Cost: $445.

The China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 will be held on June 29th - July 1st ,2009 in Shanghai China. Overall we expect more than 300 high profile participants from property developers financiers, architects, designers, contractors, engineers, as well as building sustainability solution providers including technology and products vendors.

Yonkers Green Business Summit- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
9:30 am - 4:30 pm / Cocktail reception 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

We invite businesses in Yonkers and the Hudson Valley to embrace the new emerging green economy and sustainable development by engaging in a dialogue on how to implement environmentally responsible initiatives and find cost savings while supporting the local economy. The City of Yonkers has recognized the need to cultivate green businesses and this summit will be part of a community led effort to implement and ensure that sustainability is taking root.

Our summits are focused on attainable, measurable, and sustainable business practices. “Attainable- Measurable-Sustainable” ™ is not just a slogan for our brand, rather it is a standard by which we will deliver information in this summit and through perpetual available tools such as a dedicated website and downloadable information post-conference.

Attendees will include key decision makers at every level of Yonkers business, government officials, facilities managers, business owners, and corporate executives seeking to do business in Yonkers, New York while embracing the emerging green economy.

To register, please visit www.YonkersGreenBusniness.com

Energy efficiency is a basic step in meeting climate goals. Learn how EPA's ENERGY STAR program can help your organization manage energy well and how several U.S. industrial companies have been able to successfully impact their carbon footprints through good practices, tools and techniques learned as a part of their partnership with ENERGY STAR.

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.

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

Essential for anyone seeking a new career in the solar industry, this one-day course gives you a clear understanding of the solar industry, including insight into available technologies, its economic size and potential, policy and regulatory drivers, career paths, and training resources. You develop an awareness of where you want to be within the industry and how to take the next steps toward that goal. Develop your career strategy in California's exploding solar industry and be a part of the emerging green economy.