On Friday, Florida’s embattled Governor Crist signed into law that state’s PACE financing bill. Now, the local jurisdictions just need to opt-in to allow for the financing to come through. If you forgot what PACE financing is, check out our earlier blog post titled, “What is PACE financing?”. A recent study from Johnson Controls estimates [...]
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In anticipation of the day, I offer you the following articles for good reading: Green leader Whole Foods plans to go greener The Company has plans to reduce its energy consumption 25 percent per square foot during the next five years. Save energy and money by retrofitting [...]
I like contrarian points of view as much as the next guy (perhaps more my friends would say), but this guy brings contrarian to a whole other level. This CNN/Money video is worth a look. Embedded video from CNNMoney.com Video This VC is invested in a company which turns CO2 into building materials.
The huge department store chain, Kohl’s, announced last week that they are opening nine new stores this spring and EIGHT of the nine are built just like their LEED Silver prototype. They are planning to open 30 total new stores in 2010. They have almost 1100 stores nationwide. And even better, they are also remodeling [...]
In this Sustainable Industries article, they talk about another new research report which quantifies the impact on the bottom line of greener buildings. This study from 2009 was a joint project between CBRE and the University of San Diego which focused on 154 buildings in ten widely dispersed geographic markets. All the buildings had earned [...]
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