g Green Design Center, 28 Bates Road, Mashpee Commons

This workshop, offered in conjunction with Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative, will address design methods and techniques for reducing water usage and improving water quality at home, encompassing areas such as conservation methods, irrigation, rainwater capture, stormwater management, landscaping, alternative wastewater systems, etc. This workshop will be presented by Scott Horsley of the Horsley Witten Group, a nationally recognized environmental consulting firm based in Sandwich.

Fee: $25, includes light refreshments. Pre-registration recommended.

Information: 508.477.7988, info@ggreendesign.com

Upper Cape Regional Technical High School, 220 Sandwich Road, Bourne

This training session focuses on the updated state building code with an emphasis on new requirements for high-wind areas applicable to residential construction throughout the Cape & Islands. The 3-hour session is a collaborative effort involving the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, Cape Cod District Building Officials, and the Boston Society of Architects.

Cost: $50, includes light dinner. Pre-registration and payment required.

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Phone Registration or Questions: 508.398.3900

Brewster Town Hall, 2198 Main Street

This training session focuses on the updated state building code with an emphasis on new requirements for high-wind areas applicable to residential construction throughout the Cape & Islands. The 3-hour session is a collaborative effort involving the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, Cape Cod District Building Officials, and the Boston Society of Architects.

Cost: $50, includes light dinner. Pre-registration and payment required.

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Phone Registration or Questions: 508.398.3900

May is National Bike Month and Massachusetts is doing its part to celebrate this event with Bay State Bike Week & Challenge, May 12th -18th, 2008. The goal of the challenge is for the Commonwealth’s commuters to collectively ride 50,000 miles during the week to help reduce carbon emissions, save gas, and save money. Those who register for the free challenge and commit to riding at least once during the week will be entered into a raffle for a new bike and a training session with a former Olympic cyclist.

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Provincetown Universalist Unitarian Meeting House, 236 Commercial Street, Provincetown

This free forum, presented by Safe Harbor Consulting, details town-by-town impacts expected to result from global climate change due to sea level rise, changes in terrestrial and marine habitat, and precipitation and storm events.

Information: Gordon Peabody, gordonsafeharbor@yahoo.com, 508.237.3724

Wellfleet Public Library

This free forum, presented by Safe Harbor Consulting, details town-by-town impacts expected to result from global climate change due to sea level rise, changes in terrestrial and marine habitat, and precipitation and storm events.

Information: Gordon Peabody, gordonsafeharbor@yahoo.com, 508.237.3724

Orleans Life Center, 47 Main St, Orleans

This free forum, presented by Safe Harbor Consulting, details town-by-town impacts expected to result from global climate change due to sea level rise, changes in terrestrial and marine habitat, and precipitation and storm events.

Information: Gordon Peabody, gordonsafeharbor@yahoo.com, 508.237.3724

Babson College, Wellesley

This comprehensive 3-day certification training course, offered by HeatSpring Energy, was developed by the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA). It combines combines classroom learning from a certified instructor having more than 20 years of U.S. geothermal experience with hands-on, step-by-step experience specific to a closed-loop system installation. The instructor, Dr. Charles Remund, is a professor at South Dakota State University, as well as an entrepreneur with several small businesses in the geothermal industry.

The workshop concludes with an open-book certification exam. Upon successful completion of the course and exam, attendees will be certified by IGSHPA and listed as an “Accredited Geothermal Installer” in the IGSHPA and HeatSpring Energy directories.

Cost: $1400 (includes all course materials)

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Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

More information on the May meeting of CIRenew to come … contact Chris Powicki at 508.362.9599 for information.

Salt Pond Visitor Center, Cape Cod National Seashore

Biofuels expert Curt Felix is featured speaker at the April meeting of CIRenew. He will discuss latest scientific understanding of the impacts of current and future biofuel usage on energy security, food production, and climate change challenges. His talk will reflect his recent efforts in Argentina and Brazil working with farmers, cooperatives, and agricultural firms to explore the feasibility of supplying biofuels to the Northeast U.S. on a sustainable basis. The forum, cosponsored by the Cape Cod Renewable Fuels Partnership, is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

Mr. Felix has over 25 years experience in the global energy industry. While working with the World Bank, he developed international energy conservation programs and innovative approaches for factoring environmental externalities into system planning and operations and environmental and economic considerations into fuel switching decisions. His career also includes development of a compressed natural gas vehicle facility at Logan Airport and 10 years in the petroleum exploration, refining, and production industry. Recently, he has been building an integrated team focused on supplying 50 to 150 million gallons of biodiesel from South America to the New England and Mid-Atlantic region.

The meeting will conclude with Q&A and time for conversation and networking. Information will be available on CIRenew membership and on local clean energy programs and activities.

Information: Clay Schofield, Cape Cod Commission, 508.744.1231