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Award-winning apartment design is built 90% out of wood

Inhabitat - Innovation

SAWA designed by Mei Architects and Planners won the Experimental Future Projects category. SAWA is an apartment building dripping with green roof and balcony plantings. The World Architecture Festival 2021 just took place December 1 to 3.

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SET awards honour five start-ups in the fields of climate protection and energy transition

Envirotec Magazine

The winners of the SET Award 2020: instagrid , Germany (category Renewable Energies and Materials): instagrid develops portable battery power supplies, enabling clean energy to replace small combustion engines anywhere. As a result, EcoG enables building a viable business model out of EV charging.

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USGBC Receives 100 New LEED Net-Zero Building Certifications

Green Living Guy

Milestone reflects growing demand for net-zero buildings June 14, 2022 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Green Building Council announced nearly 100 net-zero certifications earned under the LEED Zero program, representing more than 23 million square feet of space.

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Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks?

GreenBiz

Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks? Last February, I began empirical research to discover the reasons people don’t change to green banks. In the first focus group, the conversation moved to how could they really believe anything a bank says, including the well-known green banks? Diane Osgood.

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The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance

GreenBiz

The bonds alone come in a veritable rainbow of flavors: green bonds; climate bonds; sustainability bonds; social bonds; ESG bonds; blue bonds (related to oceans); and more. Green bonds are used to finance projects and activities that benefit the environment. There are, no doubt, other flavors, with more to come. Loan arrangers.

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Sustainable Real Estate: Trends and Trajectories

Green Business Bureau

There are a variety of ways to make a property more sustainable such as using green building materials , following a regular maintenance schedule, upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and appliances , and investing in onsite renewable energy systems (e.g. solar photovoltaic, wind, microhydropower and hybrid systems).

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Avery Dennison’s new electrode fixing tapes for EV battery cells

Charged

Electrode fixing tapes represent a highly specialized category of adhesive tapes. The new electrode fixing tapes feature electrolyte-compatible acrylic adhesives, and sport a highly visible green color. Various widths are available on plastic cores.