Educational Seminars
Need a speaker for your business, convention or special event? Consider hiring Healthy Homes.
President, Robin Pharo, provides dynamic presentations that engage audiences and educate them on critical building topics. Robin speaks nationally on various subjects related to the creation and selling of healthier buildings. No matter what your needs are, the message can be customized or you may choose from one of the speaking topics listed below.
Healthy Homes is currently partnering with the Wisconsin Builders Association to provide training for Lead Safe Renovators. For more information, see the WBA informational website here.
CE Workshops for local Home Builder Associations! Click here for information: HBA CEUs.pdf
Recommended Seminars:
Understanding the National Green Building Landscape
Learn what is happening on the national level within the green building industry. Review the three different national programs —the NAHB Model Green Building Guidelines, the ICC/NAHB (International Code Council/National Association of Home Builders) National Green Building Standard, and USGBC’s LEED (US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes. Also look at the marketing and product certification programs including Water Sense, Cradle-to-Cradle, and others. Finish with ways a business can incorporate information from these programs as part of their marketing initiatives.
Greening Your Bottom Line
Being a green business is an opportunity for companies to put themselves ahead of competitors, increase profits, reduce their cost base and differentiate their company to gain more customers. In today's market, there is an application for sustainability in just about every sector of our economy. This session focuses on how sustainability is transforming our society and gives an overview of major green concepts. Attendees will learn not only about how to incorporate greater levels of sustainability into their own businesses, but also how to better understand homebuyer behaviors and purchasing decisions.
Introduction to Green Building
Green Building Seminar intended to give a introductory overview to green building practices, programs, products, and techniques. Participants will review the key areas of green building with emphasis on the top three green areas - Energy Efficiency, Resource Conservation, and Indoor Air Quality. Find out what these concepts really mean and simple ways to integrate them into existing homes or new building projects.
Building Blocks of a Healthy Home
Learn simple, easily-implemented best practices for building healthier. Today, many standard materials and practices are known to have environmental and health impacts. Learn which standard building materials could have issues as well as mainstream and specialty replacement products and procedures. Content covers the practical application of how to control moisture; reduce or eliminate chemicals; protect against dangerous gasses; and ensure clean air.
Making Buildings that Last
This session will identify conditions that a building created today, will have to endure if we stay on the same course. Learn how to build a better product, reduce construction costs & waste, improve performance & comfort, eliminate “Call-Backs”, sell your services, and help the environment all at the same time.
Green Remodeling, a step-by-step guide
Follow the progress of two very different homes being remodeled to make them more energy and resource efficient. The first is a modern constructed home where the family needed additional room and a healthier environment. The second is a 1840’s farm house within a city that had very little changes since being built. Take away practical tips to incorporate green practices into your next project.
Defining Sustainability -What does Success look like for a Green Business?
How do you outline company values and integrate sustainability principles to drive creativity within an organization? Learn the key principles for incorporating sustainability in a business and how they compliment other company initiatives such as quality management and lean manufacturing. In addition, this session shows the components of effective sustainability vision and shows examples used by other companies.
Being a rainmaker; how to get customers and employees to value sustainability
Being a rainmaker requires initiating and nurturing relationships, planning, communicating and following through. Learn the twelve steps in rainmaking and how they relate to incorporating sustainability within your business.
Green Building: The Whole Building Approach
Seminar teaches residential building professionals, looking to understand the value of including building science in green practices, what they need to consider when thinking of the building as a whole. High performance builders and contractors who are looking for the best products and construction techniques to help them achieve their energy and quality goals will receive value from this seminar. The market for energy-efficient high performance homes is continuing to grow, in a residential new construction down-turn, because homeowners understand the value of a durable, energy efficient home that is safe and comfortable.
Water Conservation and the Green Movement
This session covers conservation of water by following the water cycle process and the new technologies, products and behaviors that are shaping future conservation efforts. Topics covered include: water efficient products and new technologies and effective ways of reducing household water consumption. Also includes storm water runoff and septic system design in the prevention of water table pollution. Additional areas of review include recycled water, rain water and gray-water, and an introduction to household water audits.
What Does it Mean to be Green?
The trouble with Green is that there are many different opinions on what is green and what isn’t. There is a growing movement of people who are thinking about their finances, managing their money and making choices for their future in a new way. They are making choices based on whether or not products and services are earth-friendly, ethically-produced and made, recyclable and energy-efficient. Are you part of the quickly growing “going green” movement? Do you look for an organic label on your food, energy saver sticker on your appliances and ways to lower your “carbon footprint?”
Whether you are committed to the principles of environmental stewardship or if you have given little thought to your lifestyle’s impact on the environment, this session is designed to demystify the “green” movement and help you think about how you could make different choices to lessen your impact on the environment. Using the Ten Key Values of Green, it will help show you that being more environmentally-friendly is possible even in the midst of a busy lifestyle and tight finances.
