The 5th International Specialized Exposition of green construction technologies and eco-friendly residential buildings ECO House & ECO Building Expo 2015 will be held in Japan on February 25 – 27, 2015. The most advanced products, technologies and solutions in the field of eco-construction, the use of pure energy technologies (energy saving, renewable energy sources) for construction and maintenance of buildings, bio-construction, productionof integrated and mobile residential constructions made of wood and other eco-materials will be brought to the attention of professional visitors. The exposition will be supported by the ECO HOUSE & ECO BUILDING EXPO Technical Conference.

The International Conference“Systems of solid domestic waste management: legal, financial and technical solutions” will be held in Moscow in May 2015.

The conference is aimed at arrangementof a platform for efficient dialoguebetween business, investors and authorities, sharing of accumulated experience and innovation approaches in the field of processing and recovery of solid domestic waste, as well as selection of rational solutions of the burning problems in the field.

Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center together with the Republican Olympiad Center of the Republic of Tatarstan is holdingthe Social and Ecological Contest“Let’s save nature of Tatarstan!”. The contest is aimed at propaganda of careful attitude to nature wealth, its rational use, and involvementof children in nature protection activity– these are integral parts of patriotic upbringing of children. Children and adolescents studying at educational establishmentsof forms 1-11 who show interest in study and preservation of nature of the motherlandcan participate in the contest. The contest will be held in two categories:
- nature protection campaign“Let’s save nature of Tatarstan!”;

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan (Volga) Federal University invite anyone who feels like it to undertake a tendering procedure for the award of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan named after Victor Popov for 2014for the best research workimplying great significance for solution of the most burning problems related to ecological safety of the Republic of Tatarstan. 
Contest conditions:
1. A piece of work (or a series of monothematic pieces) can be nominated on behalf of senior authors (no more than three) if it has never been awarded with state awardsbefore.

The International Project “Ecological culture. Peace and consent” is implemented in Moscow by the Ecological fund named after V.I. Vernadsky, the International Ecological Public Organization “GREENLIGHT”and the Interregional Ecological Public Organization “GREENLIFE”.The project is aimed at revelation of developed projects and ideas that imply practical importance for formation and development of ecological culture of population of theRussian Federation.
The project is implemented in the following categories:
1. Ecological education.
2. Ecological upbringing and enlightenment.
3. Preservation of biodiversity and landscape sanitation.
4. Ecological culture in industry and energetics.
5. Mass media and ecological culture.
6. Health ecology.

The Center for Intellectual Development“Zvezda.RU” (“Star.RU”) holds and international contest “Ecological boomerang”. The contest is held both for children and adults. Presentations, photos, video materials, stories, poems, and essays about ecological situation on the Planet, and ecological attitude to all spheres of life on the Planet in the following categories:
1.Taiga guard.
2.Live sea.
3.Russian forest watch.
4.School of ecological education.
5.Ecological monitoring.
6.The Planet is in danger.
7.This mysterious biofield.
8.Study of the “human – plant” relationship.
9.Bionics.
10.Give forest a chance.
11.Medicinal herbs.
12.Protection of animals.
13.Ecology of fungi.