How the commercial real estate sector is building a greener future
GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2022
The reasons to take action to cut carbon emissions from real estate are overwhelmingly greater than the reasons to do nothing.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2022
The reasons to take action to cut carbon emissions from real estate are overwhelmingly greater than the reasons to do nothing.
TechXplore
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Historically, access to geothermal energy has hinged on real estate's famously three most important factors: location, location, and location.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2023
Chief executives from some of the world's largest real estate companies pledge to 'Green Building Principles' in bid to halve emissions by 2030.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Hear from financial firm Trillium Asset Management's head of ESG strategy and real estate company Veris' lead on sustainability and ESG.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 12, 2020
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.
Energy Storage News
APRIL 17, 2024
Community-scale battery storage developer Ninedot has been supported in purchasing project sites in New York by specialist real estate investment trust SolarREIT.
Green Business Bureau
OCTOBER 19, 2022
What Is Sustainable Real Estate? Sustainable real estate includes commercial and residential real estate property that is designed, built and operated in a way that minimizes environmental impact. The Benefits of Sustainable Real Estate. The Challenges of Sustainable Real Estate.
Energy Storage News
MAY 29, 2024
Real estate development company Gardner has signed an agreement with technology provider Torus to deploy flywheel and battery-based energy storage systems at its commercial properties in Utah, US.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act is pushing to remove natural gas use in homes, but it's mostly up to industry to advance electrification for commercial buildings.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Commercial real estate developers, owners and operators are embracing net zero for a competitive edge. Leaders from CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and Transwestern weigh in.
Green Business Bureau
JULY 8, 2021
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.
Green Living Guy
MAY 23, 2022
The sustainable trend is specifically big in the real estate segment because its benefits extend to land developers and buyers alike. It affects their brand perception and makes the buyers stick around for the long haul. But living […].
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2020
Fifth Wall, the biggest venture fund dedicated to funding disruptive ideas in real estate and retail, this week revealed that it has become a Certified B Corporation (B Corp) — a move that requires it to embed concerns about equity, inclusiveness and sustainability into its portfolio. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/25/2020 - 02:00.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 17, 2021
Thus, making your real estate practice focused on the green home market will show eco-conscious clients that you’re the go-to agency for sustainable real estate. In real estate, this could be a realtor trying to sell a house as sustainable even though the only green aspect of the home is its LED lighting.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Prologis, a logistics real estate company, is integrating ESG into its business strategy and decision-making by prioritizing team collaboration and investment in data systems.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 19, 2020
-based Capital Impact Partners, a community-development real estate lender, and CDC Small Business Finance in San Diego are teaming up to boost community financing in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the Washington, D.C. The post Can real estate financing + small-business lending = equitable community growth?
Impact Alpha
JULY 3, 2024
The post The Brief: Real estate revitalization in West Baltimore’s ‘Black Butterfly’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break for the Fourth of July holiday in the US. We’ll be back in your.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 30, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 30 – When it was just a few well-connected plutocrats making headlines for questionable real estate projects, it was still possible to hope that Opportunity Zones would prove to be a major new source of capital for community-based businesses in underserved neighborhoods.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Portland, Oregon is the best real-world example in the U.S. A dozen cities or states, including Berkeley, California and Austin, Texas, now ask for at least some form of home energy information disclosure during residential real estate transactions. GTM asked Janna Green, a realtor with John L.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
real estate impact fund with £10 million appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, November 28 – U.K.-based based asset manager Schroders Capital launched a new fund focused on investments in some of Britain’s most depressed regions. The post Schroders launches U.K.
Business Green
MAY 8, 2025
Corporate Power Purchase Agreements are one of the most powerful and overlooked levers to drive the shift to renewable energy for in the commercial real estate sector, writes Sonal Jain at Workspace
GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2021
Let’s consider a relatively simple market, such as commercial real estate. It can be extremely complex to match up carbon emissions reductions purchased through carbon offsets, renewable energy certificates or direct purchases of zero-carbon energy under contract or on the spot market with your use of such energy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 11, 2021
Rekstur is tackling NYC’s 578 miles of coastal real estate with a floating container home off Rockaway peninsula in Jamaica Bay.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 9, 2021
The disparities in the real estate industry, which controls the levers of how entire communities are shaped, The post Redefining risk to catalyze capital for community-based real estate developers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Corporate America’s diversity problem is well-established.
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The post Landmark study finds negative impact of wind farms on real estate values is temporary at worst appeared first on RenewEconomy. Study finds impact of wind farms on nearby property values finds is restricted to “homes located within 1 mile of a commercial wind turbine”, and only soon after announcement.
TechCrunch: Climate
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Founded by an expert on geography and globalization, Climate Alpha’s AI-based platform helps real estate owners and investors analyze the impact of climate change on their portfolios.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Sponsored: The construction sector consumes large amounts of precious resources, but it’s also a sector that can break new ground and accelerate the circular economy in real estate.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Data collected from AI and IoT technologies can empower companies to make better decisions about their energy consumption.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The post ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in real estate + BIPOC-led climate startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome back to ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly dose of news, trends, deals and people moves in the impact economy. ?.
TechCrunch: Climate
OCTOBER 29, 2024
But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate — which collectively amount for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
The Jian Mu Tower was designed to fill the last real estate open in Shenzhen's Central Business District. Carlo Ratti Associati have released the design of an office tower in Shenzhen, China whose entire façade will be a vertical hydroponic urban farm.
Solar Industry
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
King Energy’s business model involves real estate owners receiving rent for their rooftops, while tenants and common areas receive renewable power at discounted rates. “At ClearGen, we are more than financiers; we are catalysts for growth,” says Rob Howard, CEO of ClearGen.
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2021
As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. In the U.S. alone, 2 million acres of land are used for golf courses. In the U.S. In the U.S.
PV Tech
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Solar real estate company SolaREIT and alternative investment manager AB CarVal have closed an investment of up to US$250 million to grow its renewable land, lease and loan financing solutions.
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 14, 2024
The North Carolina Real Estate Commission finalized the rule to require sellers to provide potential home buyers with information about flood history and risk before they buy a home, and it will go into effect July 1, 2024.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 9, 2021
The post The Reconstruction: An equitable path forward to redress racial injustice in real estate (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha August 9 – Black Americans make up nearly half of the people living in affordable homes financed by the federal government.
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
SolaREIT’s mission is to acquire, develop, & manage climate-friendly land assets
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Hong Kong real estate specialist enters Australia renewables market with deal to help fund Maoneng's $2 billion portfolio of battery and solar projects. The post Hong Kong real estate fund backs $2 billion of battery and solar projects in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 11, 2020
The project will reuse luxury real estate mockup structures as garden buildings, sheds, classrooms and more.
GreenBiz
JULY 29, 2021
Keaton’s involvement isn’t just money; he’s participating in a venture called Trinity Sustainable Solutions, which also includes Nexii and commercial real estate developer Trinity Commercial Development, a specialist in redeveloping brownfield sites that has done work for companies including Walmart, Rite Aid, Goodwill and CSX Transportation.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 1, 2025
Of the sectors included in the research, it is Local Authorities that are ahead of the curve on their sustainability journey, with 32% saying they are in the implementation phase, compared to 20% for Infrastructure, 19% for Real Estate and Retail & Leisure and just 13% for Architecture & Engineering.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
The post Ross Baird’s blueprint for equitable real estate in southern ‘Zoom towns’ (Q&A) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Feb. 2 – Ross Baird has made a career of plugging capital gaps for promising ideas in their earliest stages. Before “accelerator” and.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The post Real estate developers in Baltimore test strategies for inclusive growth and community wealth appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, December 1 – On the west side of downtown Baltimore, a $45 million rehabilitation of Lexington Market is turning the once-languishing food.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The post Sorenson’s Catalyst Fund crafts real estate opportunities with public funds and impact strategies appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Feb. 23 – Decades ago, Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood descended into gang violence and disinvestment, driving longtime residents away. Now, remaining residents face.
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