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Dear Climate Smart Community Leader:

FYI.

This message provides details about upcoming webcasts offered by the federal agencies and others. All webcasts are offered free of charge, but space may be limited.

ENERGY STAR Webcasts

April 23, 1:00-2:30 PM (EDT) – Portfolio Manager Office Hours, Focus Topic: Responding to a Data Request

Portfolio Manager "Office Hours" is a live webinar that gives all users an opportunity to ask their questions directly to EPA in an open forum. We will plan to spend the first 20–30 minutes of each session discussing a specific focus topic. The remaining hour will be used to answer any questions you have about Portfolio Manager.

April 28, 1:00-2:30 PM (EDT) – Portfolio Manager 101

Join us as we introduce and demonstrate the core functionality of EPA’s new ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool. Attendees will learn how to: navigate the new Portfolio Manager; add a property and enter details about it; enter energy and water consumption data; share properties; generate performance reports to assess progress; and respond to data requests.

April 29, 1:00-2:30 PM (EDT) – Portfolio Manager 201

Continue to learn about EPA’s new ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool, with a deeper dive into more advanced functionalities such as: managing and tracking changes to your property uses over time; using spreadsheet templates to update property data; setting goals and targets to plan energy improvements for properties; generating and using custom reports; and using the Sustainable Buildings Checklist.

April 30, 1:00-2:00 PM (EDT) – How to Apply for the ENERGY STAR

Join us to learn about applying for ENERGY STAR Certification in Portfolio Manager. Understand the value of the ENERGY STAR certification, see the step-by-step process of applying, and gain tips to avoid common errors, thereby helping your property get from application to award in less time.

DOE Webinars

April 7, 3:00-4:00 PM (EDT) – Zero Energy Buildings: What Are They and How Do We Build Them?

During this DOE webinar, Better Buildings' partners, Walgreens, Rocky Mountain Institute, and the National Institute of Building Sciences will share details of their zero energy building efforts and their collaboration experiences to examine the feasibility of zero energy quick serve restaurants, as well as recent advances in the development of an industry definition for the term zero energy.

April 30, 2:00-3:30 PM (EDT) – Benchmarking Data Cleansing: A Rite of Passage Along the Benchmarking Journey

Hosted by DOE’s Technical Assistance Program (TAP), this webinar will train analysts, energy planners, and community officials on the principles used for identifying potential problems associated with benchmarking data, and a methodology for cleaning the data prior to analysis. This training session is intended for cities, communities, schools, and states that have implemented an internal or community-wide building benchmarking program and are working to better understand energy use trends and design targeted and effective energy efficiency programs.

Speakers include Shankar Earni, program manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division and Mona Khalil, policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy.

NOAA Webinars

April 13, 1:00-2:30 PM (EDT) – The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Learn about the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. This series is co-sponsored by the NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP), US National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), Water Research Foundation, Water Environment Federation (WEF), Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), American Water Works Association (AWWA), the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) and EPA’s Climate Ready Water Utility Initiative.

Arizona State University and the Security & Sustainability Forum

April 24, 1:15-2:45 PM (EDT) – Growing a City to Meet Current and Future Needs: What Led to the Urban Resilience Movement

This is the first webinar in the "Along the Urban Path" four-part webinar series, a collaborative effort between Arizona State University and The Security and Sustainability Forum. Along the Urban Path serves as a practical primer on the burgeoning topic of urban resiliency. Attendees will take home points that go beyond the vernacular to get to what “resiliency” actually means now, and what it could achieve for the future. Presenters representing different disciplines will then take participants down different avenues using three resilience mechanisms―social, ecological, and technological―and where these avenues converge. The result will be a workable framework using S.E.T.S. (Social, Ecological, Technological Systems) that decision makers can use in planning for a more sustainable future. In this first webinar, panelists will introduce attendees to “urban resilience,” including insights from the practitioner perspective.

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