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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... Read more:Mandatory
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
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
California's Green Building Codes: Tahoe or Prius? 2008-07-21 00:12:07 Photocredit:labadieauto Good news! As of Thursday, we have GreenBuildingCodes
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...
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
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 DevelopmentToday
.
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
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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