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A Ceres roundtable on energy efficiency retrofits resulted in three types of recommendations for spurring movement.
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If we heed the hurricane's devastating warning, we'll get serious about upgrading the U.S. electrical grid, increasing our use of renewable energy, and improving energy efficiency.
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Though the French Quarter and Bourbon Street are booming, as much as 40 percent of eastern New Orleans is vacant. Six years after Katrina, work continues to revive the community.
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Amidst the bleakest economy in memory, the construction industry in the US needs all the good news it can get. Fortunately, there have been a couple glimmers of hope in recent weeks.
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While American media and pundits are bemoaning our inability to create any jobs or compete on green technologies, Asian countries are putting to work -- with great results -- the same ideas that have been killed in US political skirmishes.
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The president will make a high-profile speech on Thursday night that is expected to focus entirely on job creation. Here are several easy building energy-efficiency programs that will create significant economic growth and employment.
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With the debt ceiling negotiations bringing all eyes to bear on the $3.5 trillion federal budget, it's prime time to look at how a measly $12 million investment can boost building energy efficiency for years to come.
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Controversial budget-related in legislation in Wisconsin, criticized for the restrictions it would place on collective bargaining rights of state and local employees, could also have a broad ripple effect on investment in commercial real estate and green properties.
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Over the past two weeks, the Obama Administration has unveiled policy proposals affecting green real estate that have left me cheering in one case and gravely concerned in another.
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Green real estate has gone mainstream but finding financing for it -- as with conventional property and projects -- can be challenging. The Urban Land Institute Conference offered strategies for pursuing scarce dollars in a tight economy.
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Rigorous environmental product declarations are relatively new in the U.S., and Bekaert Specialty Films is among the early adopters of the practice. BSF completed a climate declaration with the lifecycle analyses of 32 of its solar window films.<br />
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Environmental product declarations, though in their infancy in the U.S., are becoming must-haves in the German building industry. As the demand for transparency in product design and manufacturing grows, can standardized environmental labels be far behind?
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Green building is a growing staple of international commerce, and German-American collaboration is a theme that's gaining resonance on the green building and products front.
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As a recently-minted author, I now understand you can never receive enough publicity for your new book. I've resolved to do my part to promote other new books on the sustainable real estate front. Here, then, are some recommendations for insightful green reading.
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While the real estate economy faltered between late 2008 and early 2009, I was writing a book about building retrofits, the sector of the property market that will likely bring us through and out of the downturn. Here are six important lessons learned in the process.<br />
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What's in store for green business, building and sustainable sites in 2010? Here are my predictions for the year's emerging trends in retrofits, energy efficiency, alternative energy and more.
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It's been an interesting several days on the green building policy front. Is the glass half empty or half full? I'm an optimist, so I opt for half full, but you be the judge.
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With the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, America lost a vigorous supporter of clean energy and the environment.
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While there's a dearth of new capital and precious few new projects pending, property owners are eyeing energy efficient retrofits to make their portfolios competitive, writes Leanne Tobias after returning from the Urban Land Institute's Developing Green conference in Beverly Hills.
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A recent white paper by the institutional real estate asset management arm of Deutsche Bank concludes that although the recession will limit the medium-term supply of new green projects, the sustainable real estate sector will outperform the conventional economy and the conventional real estate market.
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As this column was being written, Senate and House conferees were ironing out the final version of the stimulus bill. An unresolved issue is funding for school construction and related technology improvements -- the House bill provided $21 billion, $15 billion of it for grades K-12; the Senate provided no funding.
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Looking for a respite from the hectic holidays? Leanne Tobias takes you on a virtual tour of El Monte Sagrado. The green haven in the high desert of New Mexico is a testament to sustainable development and was conceived long before the term gained popular currency.
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As corporate America seeks to control real estate costs during a time of economic crisis, are green buildings still relevant? Leanne Tobias just returned from a panel at CoreNet's 2008 Global Summit in Orlando, which examined just that.
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'Whomever you supported for president, this much is clear: The Obama win is a clear victory for green buildings,' writes Leanne Tobias, an expert in green commercial real estate.