Conference Theme: Affordable Efficiency

Creating affordable and energy efficient buildings and homes is always a challenging task. Reconciling efficiency and cost-effectiveness is crucial for competitive business and meeting goals related to mitigation of climate change. Our theme this year invites you to share what you've done in the past, what you're doing, and strategies for overcoming barriers.

Here are some topic ideas collected from past attendees:

• More presentations from those in the field doing the work. How do you overcome the challenges of implementation?
• More marketing strategies for energy efficiency.
• More commercial projects and techniques.
• Creating affordable housing for middle and low-income Vermonters, and renovation of current housing stock.
• Lower cost ventilation strategies for multi-family buildings.
• Weatherization
• Environmentally friendly materials

We will be looking for these key components of a good presentation:

• Slides should have fewer words, more pictures.
• Big fonts and main ideas are ideal.
• No product specific information, and no self-promotion.
• Length of session and number of slides should correspond. Ideally no more than one slide per minute (total of 90 per session, unless there is an extended session or there are a lot of photos to tell the story).

Submitting a Proposal: Presentation proposals will be accepted online only. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, July 23, 2018 at 11:59 PM, EST. Please be aware that the online form will close at that time and lock submitters out of the system. Please plan to finish the submission process prior to that time. Only complete submissions will be considered.

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