West Coast Green Residential Green Building Conference & Expo
Sept. 25–27, San Jose, CA
The Healthy Home: A Virtual Walk-Through
Join a conversation between Mary Cordaro, environmental consultant and certified Bau-Biologist, and author Jennifer Roberts, as they take you on a virtual walk-through of Cordaro’s own healthy home. Using video clips, they will show her ongoing “lab,” a 1950s Southern Californian house that she has been renovating over the past 18 years using principles that integrate Bau-Biologie and building science. In the process, they will highlight fundamental strategies for identifying and remediating common home-health problems.
Although the topic of healthy homes could easily fill a week-long course, Cordaro and Roberts will distill the subject down to four core concepts: 1) choosing safer interior materials and products, including flooring, finishes, plaster and paint; 2) retrofitting to improve ventilation and reduce indoor air pollution; 3) controlling moisture intrusion to reduce health hazards associated with moisture and mold; and 4) reducing exposure to electromagnetic fields.
For registration information and schedule details, go to www.westcoastgreen.com.
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American College of Surgeons 94th Annual Clinical Congress
Oct. 14, 2008, San Francisco, CA
Jennifer will be presenting top tips for making your home healthier and greener. Open to conference attendees and their guests.
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To inquire about Jennifer’s availability and fees for your event, please email info@jenniferroberts.com.
Jennifer Roberts gives informative and engaging lectures and workshops to homeowners, architects, designers, builders, product manufacturers and others.
Topics include putting your home on a carbon diet, green kitchen design, eco-friendly remodeling and construction, green interior design, indoor air quality, healthy finishes and furnishings, recycled and reclaimed products and materials, pollution prevention, energy efficiency and more.
- “Creating Your Dream Green Kitchen,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC
- “Is Green Good Enough?” Dwell on Design conference + exhibition, San Francisco
- “Creating Your Dream Green Kitchen,” West Coast Green Residential Building Conference + Expo, San Francisco
- “Recipes for a Healthier Kitchen: How to Create Kitchens That Sustain People and the Planet,” West Coast Green
- “Urban Permaculture Design & Community: Practical solutions for a changing world,” sponsored by Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), Pacific Energy Center, San Francisco
- “Green or Greenwash? Making Informed Decisions about Home Design,” University of California at Berkeley, Dept. of Architecture
- Green design presentation to kitchen cabinetry dealers and kitchen designers, sponsored by Signature Custom Cabinetry, Inc., Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio National Park, San Francisco
- “What Makes It Green?” presentation to the Glasstile Collaborative meeting at Coverings conference, Orlando, Florida, sponsored by Oceanside Glasstile
- Lectures to design and construction industry trade associations, including International Interior Design Association (IIDA) of Northern California, Home Builders Association of the Central Coast, Construction Specification Institute of the East Bay, San Francisco Mart, National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
- “Color Your House Green” at the Sierra Club’s national convention and expo
- “Color Your Home Green: Eco-Friendly Interior Design” and “Once Is Not Enough: Creating Beautiful Homes with Salvaged and Recycled Materials,” Good Living Home and Garden Show, Eugene, Oregon
- “Size Matters: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Large Houses” series of workshops for County of San Mateo RecycleWorks
- Decorative Center Dallas, continuing education classes taught to interior designers
- Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, San Francisco
- Peninsula Home & Garden Expo, San Mateo, CA
- SF Bay Area National Association of Remodelers, Professional Green Building Certification classes on indoor air quality and green home design
- “Dream Green Kitchens,” City of Sunnyvale, CA
- “Remodel or Retrofit to Live Well,” City of Petaluma (CA) and Daily Acts
- “Green: The New Color of Interiors” lecture at Eco Design Resources showroom, San Carlos, CA
- “Green Remodeling” lecture and panel discussion, Mechanics Institute, San Francisco
- Talks and book signings at bookstores, libraries and other locations
Media appearances include:
Jennifer was featured on the television program “Your Green Life: Building It Green,” produced by KBWB YourTV20, San Francisco. She has been a guest on numerous radio programs and podcasts, including a Dwell Podcast on the growing green movement (www.dwell.com), EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg (Air America Radio), Home Wizards (NewsTalk 870 KRLA), Your Call (KALW-FM), On the House with the Carey Brothers (national AM syndication), RadioActive (KRCL-FM), the Green Hour with Harry O, and the Lazy Environmentalist (Sirius Satellite Radio).
