Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]
I know that there is debate in the community on the quantifiable value of the value of green-labeled buildings. And even the number when it is quantified, but here is a 2009 study from the Henley School of Business which reports that Energy Star buildings sell for 10% more than comparable non-green-labeled buildings, while LEED [...]
I ran across a great website and blog, Jetson Green last week after I was sent his post about the 4th Annual Green Building Survey. By the way, the survey was conducted in February 2010 (yeah, recent and current opinion polls) and covers 1600 respondents. The full Green Building Survey is here. The Jetson Green [...]
According to new U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) data, nearly half of all LEED certifications in its eight-year history have occurred in 2009 (2089 of the 4,327 LEED-certified projects in existence). That number may actually top 50% since those numbers were only through December 5, 2009. Forty-two percent of the registrations (11,172/26,385) also occurred in [...]
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 [...]
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