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The Green Building Finance & Investment Forum: First Movers, 9 Ideas & Some Challenges
2008-02-26 12:13:34
So today is a two post day, just to stay on top of the info deluge that is besieging my inbox. I’d posted before about the Green Building Finance & Investment Forum , which took place the latter half of last...
Read more: First , Movers

Energy Efficiency German-style & LEED Grows Legs
2008-03-15 19:39:25
Photo by Popaver. This Passivhaus is the winner of the 2007 Solar Decathlon. It was created by a team led by Professor Manfred Hegger, mentioned below in today's post. Last week, I moderated an energy efficiency symposium that brought together...
Read more: Efficiency , Energy , Energy Efficiency , German

San Francisco Once Step Closer to Mandatory LEED
2008-03-21 01:30:59
Mandatory LEED in San Francisco is a critical step closer to being fully approved, according to yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle. The Building Inspection Commission signed off on it last night. Its now at the Board of Supervisors for approval. Bare...
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Its New! Its Green! Its Finance! Residential Property Tax Assessments as a Solar Finance Mechanism
2008-05-01 22:39:51
Photo credit: istockphoto I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the road recently. And there are a lot of great green finance ideas percolating out there (still…), but they all lack the key buzzwords: committed capital (heavy stress on...
Read more: Green , Solar

Heard at the Fisher Center: Connecting Energy Price Risk with Real Estate Values
2008-05-06 23:54:40
So I was at the Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference today, where the focus was “the state of real estate” from both an academic and practitioner point of view. The slant was residential, with high quality data and insights....
Read more: Connecting , Energy , Heard , Values

Green Finance Innovation from Japan: Sumitomo Trust’s Lending Products for Sustainable Real Estate
2008-05-08 23:35:03
Meet Masato Ito! We have a post from an honored guest today! I had the great pleasure of watching a presentation by Masato Ito, of Sumitomo Trust, earlier this year during the Responsible Property Investing Summit. He gave us an...
Read more: Estate , Green , Innovation , Japan , Lending , Products , Real Estate , Sustainable

Zeitgeist: Fuel scarcity makes the bus cool again and the media’s suburbia deathwatch
2008-05-15 11:55:27
So today I drove all the way over the Golden Gate bridge to get gas at the supposedly “cheap” gas station and paid $4.02/gallon. And that’s a good deal - closer to my house, gas costs about $0.20/gallon more. So...
Read more: makes , media , Zeitgeist

Finance Industry Spin or Denial on Sustainability?
2008-06-02 00:36:56
I thought I'd share some of the latest that has made its way over to my inbox over the past few days. Take a look and let me know what you think. Is it spin? Denial ? Spinial? The Mortgage Bankers...
Read more: Sustainability

Gadgets & Video: Energy Neutral Green Affordable Housing
2008-06-17 03:00:58
So while the rest of the known universe makes their new iPhone plans, I'm headed for a Flip Video Ultra Camcorder. And I've discovered that green videos on YouTube are the best way to cultivate a new camcorder obsession. But...
Read more: Energy , Green , Housing , Neutral

UN 's New Report on Responsible Property Investing
2008-06-17 11:14:53
Today, multiple posts are required just to stay on top of the good news onslaught. Earlier this year, I put out a bunch of posts about the good work of the Responsible Property Investing Center and why it is so...


Persuasive 'Everyday' Sustainability Case Studies
2008-06-19 17:02:49
To lots of companies, sustainability can seem like a pretty exotic exercise. This perception can make it hard for us to convince clients and colleagues about the benefits of green building. That may not have to be the case. 'Tackling...
Read more: Studies , Sustainability

Jean's Question: Anybody Actually Getting Carbon Credits for Green Buildings?
2008-07-03 00:36:02
Gotta love the creative local church marketing campaign! Photo credit: Mykl Roventine In any situation, you always wanna hang with the folks that ask the tough questions -- they're usually closer to the real answers. Like Green Journey reader Jean...
Read more: Actually , Buildings , Carbon , Credits , Question

Green Roof Incentive in New York
2008-06-30 15:45:02
Photocredit: dreamymo Folks love the green incentives that have immediate, easily calculated cash value. Environmental Leader (a green newsletter we dig) has put out the word on New York 's new green roof tax credit of $4.50/sf, up to $100,000 for...
Read more: Green , Incentive

Carbon March Tempo Quickens: California Cap-N-Trade Plans Announced
2008-06-28 12:57:19
The photo by Mick Montara is not a sci-fi special effect. Its the sun seen through the thick wildfire haze in mid-daytime here in NoCal yesterday. No kidding! The haze blanketing many cities comes from over 100 wildfires that we...
Read more: California , Carbon , March , Trade

California's Green Building Codes: Tahoe or Prius?
2008-07-21 00:12:07
Photocredit:labadieauto Good news! As of Thursday, we have Green Building Codes in California -- on a voluntary basis till 2010, when they become mandatory. The two step-process to mandatory green building codes probably looks like a politically necessity today. Many...
Read more: Prius , Tahoe

Banks, Climate Change & Green Real Estate: Money Talks
2008-07-19 14:12:59
Mindy Lubber, head of Ceres, talks about how the big US banks are taking responsibility to reduce the negative effects of climate change. You'll notice that she mentions the banks being signatories to the Carbon Principles and changing the way...
Read more: Change , Climate , Estate , Green , Money

Al Gore: Big Vision or Unrealistic?
2008-07-19 03:47:36
Photo credit: World Resources Institute, on Flickr Re: Al Gore's 17 July speech: 1) Lead Article title by Environmental Leader, emailed around earlier today: "Gore Calls For 100% Clean Energy by 2018, Keeps Straight Face" 2) Quote from Time Magazine...


Dan Geiger Recommends: USGBC's Green Building Policy Database
2008-07-31 12:13:25
Ah, the wisdom of crowds! If you follow the author who made this phrase famous, then you know that having a large group of people solving a problem is better than an elite few (his words). And that thinking has...
Read more: Building , Database , Green , Policy

The Rapid Growth of Green Building Ordinances
2008-07-30 00:33:21
I was teaching a workshop a couple of weeks ago, and a participant who was also a municipal employee raised his hand and asked if anybody knew of a website where he could download green building ordinances. He wasn't kidding....
Read more: Building , Green , Growth , Rapid

Retailers Increase Customer Loyalty with Green Initiatives – The Landlord’s Angle
2008-08-27 14:32:00
With the economy weathering tough times, all eyes in commercial real estate have been on declining retail performance. So it’s no surprise to see recent reports about how retailers are using green initiatives to improve both store performance as well...
Read more: Angle , Customer , Green , Initiatives , Landlord , Loyalty

Check out our green finance interview on Sustainable Land Development Today
2008-09-29 23:03:52
Lisa Michelle Galley talks about the current state of the green real estate capital markets within the article “Oases of Capital”, published by Sustainable Land Development Today . An excerpt here: “Galley favors the concept of responsible property investment — the triple-bottom-line approach — which is socially and environmentally progressive while generating market r
Read more: Check , finance , interview

ULI on the Financial Bailout as the Swedes Shake Their Heads Knowingly
2008-09-29 19:46:03
Tired? I know, I know… Staying on top of political theater and the daily collapse of banks can wear a body down.  Watching the never-ending series of CNN breaking news, checking your own bank’s solvency and reading the papers leaves nearly no time for work! Well, we won’t tell you how to vote, but here’s a couple [...]
Read more: Financial , Heads , Shake

Green Real Estate Investing 101 - Cashing in on water savings
2008-09-29 02:11:56
One of our new favorite blogs, Multi-family Guide, just alerted us to a recent article in Green er Buildings about the top ways commercial building owners can save money through better water management. We think you should take a read and send it along to your property staff for a quick check up on water management [...]
Read more: Estate , Investing

Renewable Energy Market Status
2008-10-09 14:40:38
“Where you stand depends upon where you sit.” A famous politician might have thought he was dispensing pithy political wisdom when he said this, but he was also, perhaps inadvertently,  framing our understanding of the relative potential of renewable energy markets going forward. Growing renewable energy markets from a staggered start Remember, it has only been a week [...]
Read more: Energy , Market , Renewable , Renewable Energy , Status

Federal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Incentives: How They Boost Your Green Business Case (Special Update for GEC Clients)
2008-10-07 12:07:58
This is a special update for Galley Eco Capital clients concerning the extension of sunset dates for both federal energy efficiency and renewable energy tax credits. Specifically, these provisions provide significant benefits to investors and developers of sustainable real estate and our incentive and tax benefit studies can help you plan to maximize your [...]
Read more: Boost , Business , Clients , Efficiency , Energy , Federal , Green , Incentives

How Oil Prices Literally Drive the Mortgage Crisis
2008-10-06 15:37:08
We’ve blogged before on the disastrous connection between fuel pricing, vehicle miles traveled and residential foreclosures. And after those posts, it was interesting to see some economists shift away from discussing this problem, focusing almost exclusively on the impact of oil speculators. Nonetheless, we stayed on the case, since advancing  true green real estate finance has [...]
Read more: Crisis , Mortgage , Prices

Are You Funding Green Sprawl?
2008-11-05 20:00:06
Today’s post is dedicated to all our euphoric green finance and investment friends who are suffering from PEWS — post-election withdrawal syndrome. Here’s a delicate question: >>Are you funding green sprawl?<< Sustainable Industries recently published an article about the dilemma of having green homes and buildings built in suburban locations. Their set-up: While
Read more: Funding , Green

Part 1: Lessons for Future-Proofing Property Values
2008-11-03 06:00:04
Since when has any firm achieved competitive advantage by just goin’ along with the crowd? Even in the current tough capital markets environment, excellence in real estate demands a continuous search for the newest ways to protect and advance asset values. This first installment of our Special Series on the Green Building Finance and [...]
Read more: Future , Lessons , Values

John Knott and Andrew Nelson Show RPI in Action
2008-10-29 11:17:28
Greetings from the Miami International Airport Island Grill, which — given my options — is currently rocketing up my three item list of decent airport food! I had the opportunity to attend a great talk by John Knott, of the Noisette Company,  here at the ULI Fall Meeting. Hearing him reminded me that there are a [...]
Read more: Action , Andrew , Nelson

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