The Summer Institute in Sustainability is an intensive professional development program targeted to administrators in corporations, local and provincial governments, and universities and colleges who wish to integrate sustainability as a core value in their organization. Academic experts and working professionals will help you understand how to develop sustainability policies and procedures that are mindful of public policy, stakeholder interest, and the bottom line.

If you're struggling with how to fund the development and maintenance of environmental systems--like drinking and waste water systems--the How To Pay: Challenges and Solutions Of Environmental Protection is for you and your local government team.

GreenGov Conference 2008 is an operations-greening conference for government agencies at all levels. Themes like "Show me the funding," "Green purchasing," and "Green buildings" will provide information for agencies working to make their operations more efficient.

That's "pro" as in for, not as in paid for. This conference, put on by BikeWalk.org, the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, will bring together advocates, officials, planners, and others in almost a week of bike and pedestrian oriented workshops, meetings and presentations.

ASPO-USA hosts their fourth annual "Dialogue with the Experts," a high-level conference to discuss impacts of and responses to a peak in world oil production. ASPO Week will consist of three days of high-level energy discussions, including a pre-conference day, daytime and evening presentations, and mix & meet receptions with speakers and sponsors.

Recognized as the energy industry’s premier event, the annual WEEC is one the key opportunities of the year for end-users and decision-makers from business, industry, and government to learn about the newest technologies, hear industry’s leading experts, and network. This year’s event will cover energy efficiency, sustainable technologies, distributed generation, HVAC, building systems, facilities management, renewable technologies, energy service, and power marketplace.

The Playbook for Green Buildings and Neighborhoods: Strategic Local Climate Solutions, a web-based resource, provides strategies, tips, and tools that counties can use to take immediate action on climate change through: green building, green neighborhoods, and sustainable infrastructure. The Playbook is designed both for communities that are considering making the first steps toward these, as well as for those who want to take existing efforts to a new level.

The majority of the world’s population lives within sixty kilometers of the coast line - and this portion is steadily increasing. Yet the coastal ecosystem is fragile, and the combination of development and climate change can cause harm to the priceless natural resources that draw people to the oceans. This conference, for coastal city leaders, managers and academics, will feature discussions on many aspects of the human/urban piece of the coastal environment.

The theme of this year's U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is "Revolutionary Green: Innovations for Global Sustainability." Join architects, code officials, developers, green power providers, and many others in Boston, Mass. for this important conference on green building.

The 8th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities Conference will be held January 22-24, 2009 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

No city today can function efficiently without public transport. Indeed the development of public transport is a prerequisite for sustainable urban development. It is all the more critical in the light of growing urbanization, air quality concerns, peak oil, and climate change.