The 4th International EcoMaterials conference is in Cuba, November 24-27 2009. The organizers of the conference, EcoSouth, provide information and small equipment for making building materials such as microconcrete roofing, puzzolanic cement, earth brick construction, and more.

I’ll be delivering the Friday night keynote presentation at the sold-out CIRQUE’09 conference, January 30-31 2009. CIRQUE is the annual Conference on Industry and Resources at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is “Extreme Engineering”. My talk is going to be about industry and resources alright, about the permanent decline of both and [...]

Ontario’s fifth annual public sector energy management conference hosted by Peel Region will take place April 20-21 in Mississauga. Building on earlier years where strategic planning and changing mindsets were themes, this year’s focus is on implementation, primarily energy management. Designed to foster the best practices that make today’s public agencies greener places to work [...]