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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 design software giant introduces a suite of tools that marry cloud computing and on-premise solutions to provide insight into products and building projects from their inception to end of life.
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Autodesk is on a mission to dispel any doubts about the power and possibilities that cloud computing brings to sustainable design. The technology and its impacts on design are Topic A at company's user conference in Las Vegas.
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The second full day of the 2011 Greenbuild conference brought a steady flow of news, with Marriott Hotels earning LEED volume certification for three of its brands, a challenge to the USGBC's 2012 update to LEED, and other news.
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The first day of the world's biggest green building event brought out more news from more companies and organizations than could conceivably be covered. Here are some of today's highlights.
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Japan's industrial firms offer cleantech solutions to step up recovery efforts from the earthquake and tsunami last spring, environmental groups slap the EPA with lawsuits over pollution standards, and more make green headlines today.
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The U.S. Green Building Council's streamlined LEED certification for large groups of existing buildings became official this week, and Cushman & Wakefield, Bentall Kennedy and Kohl's are already reporting strong savings from the program.
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This week's episode of Energy Now! looks at the creation of sustainable buildings, from the well documented Empire State Building project to the post-tornado green reconstruction of Greensburg, Kansas.
by energyNOW !
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In the environment, as in business, timing is critical. This is perhaps no more true than in the issue of anthropogenic climate change, and GreenBiz articles this week discuss the alarming news on carbon emissions and their impacts on cities.
by Rob Watson
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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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With this week's news of seven major companies dropping their support for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a war of words has heated up between SFI and the Forest Stewardship Council, the other wood products certification on the market.
by Marc Gunther
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Despite the boom in green buildings, finding highly technical spaces like research laboratories designed with sustainability in mind is still a rare occurrence. UCSF, however, bucks that trend with its commitment to LEED labs.
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I covered the messy breakdown of the Carousel/Destiny USA project, which was selected as a green demonstration project under the 2004 Green Bonds program. I've also written at length about creating effective green incentives and regulations. For me, the most interesting part of this debacle is what it reveals about a major green incentive program.
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Why do some green buildings perform as designed or better, while others might barely make the grade, even if certified? It turns out that even the most sustainably designed, intelligent building is only as smart and green as the people who occupy and operate it.
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Procter & Gamble has pledged to seek LEED certification for all new facilities in the company's latest move to pursue its recently announced sustainability vision. The consumer packaged goods behemoth made the commitment as it broke ground on manufacturing plant in China.
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An ambitious but long-stalled project to expand a shopping center in Syracuse, New York, into a green megamall could become the focus of a rash of litigation.
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The recent State of Green Business Forum in Washington, DC, featured interviews with key players in the campaign to green the U.S. government, from its purchases to its properties. This we have those accounts as well as news about a novel effort to build greener communities by revitalizing disused urban land.
by Rob Watson
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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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Real estate finance forecasters believe 2011 will be a year to buy back into the real estate market. If their predictions come true, structuring financing for green building and renewable energy projects will still require more legal creativity and effort than financing more traditional projects.<br />
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Basically, there are only a few mechanisms for financing projects. Self-finance (your bank account); equity finance (someone else's bank account); debt finance (the bank); government finance (Uncle Sam's bank account); and grant finance (<strike>your parents'</strike> third party bank accounts). These mechanisms are no different for green projects, but there are some interesting variants.
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New rules require federal agencies to sign leases only in energy efficient buildings, which is good news for landlords at green properties, companies that specialize in energy efficiency improvements and the green job market.
by Andrew Burr
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While green has become the new black and cleantech is now viewed as sexy, affordable housing -- as fundamental to societal well-being as energy security -- maintains a reputation as a dowdy old aunt. But that can change as new views emerge of the social return on investment provided by green, affordable housing.
by Sara Olsen