March 18, 2010

Trathen Heckman will speak at the Sierra Green Days banquet. Courtesy photo Starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, Portland, Ore., artist Garett Brennan and his band, the Great Salt Licks, will play a free concert on the main stage at Ironstone Vineyards as part of Sierra Green Days, a three-day celebration of health, sustainability and community put on by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.

The International Code Council and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. have merged their efforts, rather than compete, to develop the nation’s first “green” model code for commercial buildings.

Buildings are significant consumers of energy and major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Â Organizations are discovering the importance of employing green building practices and principles not only to raise the level of its building’s operational performance but also to make it more environmentally friendly.

Western Nevada College will host a free green building seminar from 8:30-11:45 a.m. Thursday, March 25 in the Reynolds building, room 114. Learn about cost-effective and mainstream green materials and techniques and how to use them in any project to save energy, water, time and money. The instructor is Barbara Collins, a senior building science consultant with Energy Rated Homes, a company that …

Experts: Green building could save Jordan’s resources, create jobs

All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick’s Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.