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20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity

Business Facilities

Green Building Council is expanding its LEED for Cities and Communities program with a new $500,000 grant from Bank of America. Read: 20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Modern Slavery Exists and We Must Stop It Now

Green Building Law Update

This law firm has worked with businesses, non real estate and real estate alike, in their disclosures required by the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 of their “efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from [their] direct supply chain for tangible goods offered for sale.”

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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

When the project team decided to go green during construction, high-performance coatings might not be the first thing on their minds, but maybe they should be. Green Building Council.”. All images courtesy Tnemec Company, Inc. by Jennifer Gleisberg, CSI, CDT. LEED and LBC. LEED v4, developed by the U.S.

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What is PACE Financing and Is It Doomed?

Construction Law Monitor

Started in the green revolution’s holy land, Berkley, California, PACE financing is shorthand for Property-Assessed Clean Energy Financing ( Wikipedia entry ). I am also a LEEP AP, and focus part of my practice on green building issues. I recently wrote a blog post called: Think Green Building is Irrelevant?

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5 Themes for the Future of High Performance Buildings

Stok

Five major themes in high performance real estate rose to the top from this year’s conference in San Francisco, presenting bold solutions for the sustainable built environment that tackle environmental, social, and economic challenges in California and at the global scale. #1: At the forefront is equity. 1: Embodied Carbon Comes First.

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

Business Facilities

Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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Stok Welcomes Christina Weber as Vice President of Growth & Client Solutions

Stok

Christina is based in the firm’s Bay Area headquarters and serves on the leadership team, covering all three of Stok’s current markets in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, and Colorado. She is joined by fellow new hire, Jeffrey Marshall , Director of Client Solutions in Southern California.