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New report says venture capital investment in low-carbon building startups hit a record $2.2 billion in 2022.
by Amber Rolt
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Here's an update on conflict minerals reporting, a portrait of small companies' biggest climate fears, and insight into sustainable product planning.
by Elsa Wenzel
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Since 2008, Harvard's Office for Sustainability has unified the campus around its ambitious set of sustainability goals.
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Green construction and architecture has gone mainstream; here are some notable examples from around the world.
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The plans for Apple's new headquarters will choke off street connections and potential walking routes in Cupetino, making bicycling and walking more difficult -- and likely encouraging people to keep driving, writes NRDC's Kaid Benfield.
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As of this month, the more than 3,750 properties that are part of Hilton Worldwide are participating in the company's LightStay sustainability management program. Christopher Corpuel, Hitlon's green guru, tells GreenBiz how they made it happen.<br />
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The importance of the handoff of a new building to its operators is often undervalued, misunderstood and overlooked. A poor transition can mean that building operations get off to a bad start and never fully recover.
by Jim Sinopoli
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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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An international roster of leaders from city and state governments and business shared their best strategies for financing large-scale deployment of low carbon technologies in the built environment to create smarter grids, buildings, transportations systems and urban infrastructure.
by Molly Webb
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PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of the largest hurdles to investment in clean energy -- the upfront cost. This post, the first of a three-part series, looks at how the fate of PACE programs could determine the future of the clean energy economy.
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The combination of retrofit, accelerated tax depreciation and carbon tax risk analyses needs to become an integrated part of portfolio assessments. Whether a portfolio includes millions of square feet, or a series of small facilities, it invariably has untapped values in these areas. As Richard Locke said of sustainability, "You pull a thread and everything comes together."
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Los Angeles may have the most green buildings in the U.S., but San Francisco has the best market conditions across a range of considerations, according to new research.
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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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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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I'm reading Gavin Menzies' fascinating book "1421" and was thinking about the challenges of early explorers: How do you get somewhere without a compass or a map? And if you could have only one, which would you prefer?
by Rob Watson
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I'm reading Gavin Menzies' fascinating book "1421" and was thinking about the challenges of early explorers: How do you get somewhere without a compass or a map? And if you could have only one, which would you prefer?
by Rob Watson
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The vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally.
by Joel Makower