Industry Webinars

This session will share easy to grow crops and tips and tricks to maximize your container vegetable gardening

In this month’s webinar, instructor Bob Jennings discusses pump curves and how to optimize pumps to their system to achieve energy savings.

Please join us for a free webinar summarizing key findings from Berkeley Lab’s recently published report, “Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update.” The report, the latest in an annual series, describes income and other socio-economic trends among U.S. residential rooftop solar adopters. This latest edition is based on household level data for more than 3.4 million residential solar adopters across the country, with systems installed through 2022. With its unique size, geographic scope, and level of detail, this report is intended to serve as a foundational reference document for policy-makers, industry stakeholders, and researchers. We appreciate the funding support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office.

Re-engineering the classic look of brick and wood facades with prefabricated resin cast shapes that are durable, lightweight, easy to install, and offer the same curb appeal as natural brick or wood. This course examines the wood and brick aesthetic of resin cast shapes and demonstrates their sustainability and performance qualities. Case studies of noteworthy projects will illustrate the superior form and function of this Next Level Cladding alternative. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe resin cast shapes and their use for sustainable cladding 2. Design the benefits and performance characteristics of resin-cast shapes 3. Increase profitability with less labor-intensive materials to install, fewer trades to coordinate, and a reduced need for skilled labor 4. Identify the design and aesthetic versatility

Dr. Robert Dietz, chief economist and Senior VP for Economics and Housing Policy for NAHB, provides an expert status check on key macro issues affecting the economy and the housing industry, from productivity and inflation, interest rates and Fed policy, the state of construction labor, and market sentiment among housing professionals. The presentation includes a LIVE Q+A session for attendees!

As a retailer or brand selling your consumer products into the global marketplace, you know how challenging is to stay up to date on the complex legislations impacting your products.Chemical regulations in particular are constantly evolving to protect people and the environment. You must meet their requirements to sell safer, more sustainable products in your target markets.

Join to hear guest speakers from the farming community share their practical tips and insights into how anyone working in farming can prioritise mental health and wellbeing on a daily basis.

We are publishing a fourth report on the benefits of Green Municipal Aggregation (GMA, or Green Community Choice Electricity, CCE) in Massachusetts. GMA/CCE allows a community to negotiate a bulk purchase of electricity for residents, which saves them money on their electric bills. But crucially, it also adds more renewable energy to their electricity. The newest data: The winter of 2022/2023 was extraordinarily expensive for customers who received power supply from National Grid, Eversource, Unitil, or Rhode Island Energy. But customers receiving supply from aggregations saved more money than ever. Join this webinar to learn more about the report.

Presenter: Andy (Yi) Chen, John Innes Centre, UKOutline: Grain and spike development are two important developmental processes in wheat that can influence final grain yield. To better understand these two processes, we investigated the genetic basis of wheat subspecie and mutants that have different grain or spike morphology compared to cultivated wheat. The wheat subspecie Triticum ispahanicum (n = 14) have a major QTL, P2, on chromosome 6A. P2 increases the length of glume, maternal floral organs and grain. By using combination of positional-based cloning and gene editing, we discovered that T. ispahanicum has a unique 482-bp promoter deletion on the gene SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE-A1 (SVP-A1) which is sufficient to increase glume and grain length. EMS line ANK-15 and the Japanese landrace Nakate Gumbai have compact spike. To understand the genetic basis of spike development, we performed F2 mapping and identified a QTL on chromosome 5D. We performed RNA-seq using near-isogenic lines and identified a set of candidate genes that can influence spike development.References: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00122-022-04114-y

In our upcoming webinar, Preserving a Precious Natural Resource with Water Leak Detection, we explain how you can help protect water utilities from leaks and contamination using our technology-driven solutions. Our expert, Randy Lash, breaks down the importance of sound when detecting water leaks and how to best utilize our connected software and products to enhance leak detection, reduce loss, and maintain optimal water utility operations. Learn about our water leak detection solutions and register for this webinar.