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Watt It Takes: Turning Real Estate Into Clean-Power Assets

GreenTechMedia

Blueprint works with real estate companies to turn their buildings into clean energy power plants. Robyn has a long history in the worlds of tech, real estate and energy. She later went into the world of real estate, where she oversaw venture investments at Lennar.

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Sustainability Guide for Real Estate: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

With sustainability taking the forefront of many company agendas, the real estate industry is due for a seismic shift. Demand for real estate companies that practice sustainability is rapidly increasing and is expected to accelerate upwards as younger generations enter the housing market. Invest in Electric Vehicles.

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Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund closes $42 million for inclusive real estate in New England

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 4 – Boston-based environmental advocacy organization Conservation Law Foundation and Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp., The post Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund closes $42 million for inclusive real estate in New England appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Science Based Targets Initiative backs new real estate decarbonisation push

Business Green

SBTi teams up with Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor initiative to develop fully aligned 1.5C decarbonisation pathways for the real estate sector. pathways for operational real estate emissions. CRREM and the SBTi said they have agreed to fully align their existing methodologies to 1.5C

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Iroquois Valley Farmland Trust raises $2 million to accelerate shift to organic

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 2 – Iroquois Valley Farmland Trust encourages farmers to shift to organic practices with access to capital, mortgages and long-term land leases. Rodale Institute, an agricultural research nonprofit, invested $2 million from its endowment and operating budget in the Evanston, Ill.-based

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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore.

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Now is a great time to optimize energy in buildings. You'd think.

GreenBiz

Despite being mostly empty, commercial real estate energy bills are mostly unchanged. . But as we’re still grasping the extent of the economic fallout, commercial real estate owners are cautious. Now is a great time to optimize energy in buildings. You'd think. Sarah Golden. Fri, 05/08/2020 - 00:43.