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The Art of Sustainable Living Week 3: Energy
Instructor - Richard Reep, LEED-AP
Workshop Series: The Art of Sustainable Living
Join us for an informative and empowering series of workshops to discuss and analyze sustainable living, and apply concepts to one’s own lifestyle.
Instructor: Richard T. Reep, LEED-AP
Workshops are offered as individual classes for $25, or enjoy the entire series for $125. Students will be provided valuable, practical information to integrate into their daily lives. Must pre-register as course is limited to 15 students.
Workshop 3: Energy
Students will complete the workshop with ways to reduce energy useage, ways to capture lost energy being created by their residence, and innovative ways to generate energy for production. Students will explore the ways they consume energy for heating, cooling, transportation, lighting, hot water, and other uses, and look at ways to reduce energy use.
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Goals/Learning Objectives:
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Understand how home design affects energy consumption
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their current energy consumption
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Understand energy efficiency ratings (Energy Star, HERS, and others)
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Understand energy efficiency measures
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Understand innovative energy technologies and tradeoffs (photovoltaics, etc).
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Workshop: Using their own residences, students will analyze their landscape and hardscape materials, as well as their own water useage, to determine how to reduce waste and increase productivity. Bringing in recent power bills and photos of their property, students will be able to analyze items such as:
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Current Electricity Useage
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Ways to Use Less Energy
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Ways to Make Energy (net metering)
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Green Power
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Students taking these workshops will gain an understanding of sustainability related to landscape, architecture, and interior design, both for their own residences and for their community.
Each workshop explores a different question, and the workshops can be taken individually or as an entire class series.
Sunday, Feb. 21st, 2010, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Florida School of Holistic Living Main Campus, Orlando $25 for individual workshop or $125 for six week series