In celebration of WRISE Week (Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy) this June, please join WRISE’s Seattle Chapter for a night of socializing and networking at Marten Law in downtown Seattle. Many of WRISE’s 35 chapters across the U.S. and Canada will be hosting events this week. WRISE's community has grown quite a bit over the last year and this is an excellent opportunity to plug in with WRISE's local Seattle Chapter if you haven’t done so already.

Event Details
The evening will provide a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues and peers within the renewable energy industry outside of more formal WRISE events to engage, learn, and socialize with one another. There will be some prompted discussion on topics relevant to the renewable and sustainability industry, but otherwise it will open up for regular networking. Wine, beer and hors-d’oeuvres will be served, and the Seattle Chapter leaders will also provide information about upcoming events.

Includes Happy Hour & Prompted Discussion

Join the Smart Buildings Center (a project of NEEC) & the NW Chapter of the Building Commissioning Association for a conference on June 18, 2019 in Seattle. The conference, aimed at commercial building owners and managers, building operations and engineering staff, commissioning agents, architects, engineers, and property developers, offers opportunities to gain knowledge, connections and success regarding building performance through smart technologies and practices.

Attendees will learn how smart technologies and practices improve building performance, increase tenant and occupant productivity, enhance security, and provide sustained operational cost savings. Hear about real world examples of smart technology applications and practices from building professionals in the industry. Conference sessions will focus on IoT (Internet of Things) for building performance, what tools people are using to increase building performance, and what the industry is doing with these advances in technology. Click for details and to register. 

The 6th Annual CleanTech Innovation Showcase will bring the industry together to discuss the latest cleantech innovations, ideas and initiatives on June 24. The CleanTech Innovation Showcase attracts cleantech industry leaders from across the U.S., Canada and beyond to see technology innovations and featured presentations from industry notables. Click for more details and to register.

Consistent with its reputation as the Conference of Champions, the Pac-12 is the first collegiate sports conference to convene a high level symposium focused entirely on integrating sustainability into college athletics and across college campuses.

All of the Pac-12 athletic departments have committed to measuring their environmental performance, developing strategies and goals to reduce their impact, monitoring their progress, and engaging fans and communities in greener practices. The Pac-12 Sustainability Conference signals an elevated approach to enhancing sustainability efforts within collegiate athletics departments, designing new collective initiatives, and sharing best practices to transform college sports into a platform for environmental progress. Click for more details and to register. 

On October 5 & 6, 2019, hundreds of people who have gone solar across the nation will open their homes and businesses to engage their communities around the power of solar energy.

Solar homes, businesses, non-profit organizations, municipal buildings, religious institutions, schools, and community solar gardens are all invited to host solar open houses as part of the National Solar Tour. Click for details.