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Blockchain has come to Real Estate

Green Building Law Update

A California based private company, Propy, contracted with Ukraine’s e-government agency to serve as a duplicate official ledger facilitating the $60,000 Kiev apartment sale in September. And progressive owners of green buildings and the like will all but certainly be at the forefront of this technological revolution.

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Could Solyndra Happen To Green Building Policy?

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Solyndra is the solar panel manufacturer in California that qualified for a $535 million federally-backed loan. As I started thinking about the broader implications of the Solyndra collapse, I could not help but draw parallels to a similar federally-funded green project that has not panned out as expected: Destiny USA. It already has.

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Net Zero Certification Program Announced by USGBC

Green Building Law Update

And there are ‘real’ definitions in statute, including in California and in legislation pending in Washington DC. Green buildings are the geoengineering solution to many of the environmental issues of the day. USGBC will now be a catalyst for new, cutting edge technologies with the moonshot to net zero buildings.

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ESG is an Opportunity for Commercial Landlords

Green Building Law Update

Carbon reporting will be required by organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in supplying a product or service in California. It offers a positive that the supply chain contract, the lease, is in writing. This is much more than only applying to Amazon and Walmart, and their supply chains.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The key to that positive change resides in the same place in California it did in North Dakota—buried more than a mile underground in the middle of a huge shale deposit. Thus far, California hasn’t dived head-first into an embrace of fracking. Source: Energy Information Administration based on data from various studies.

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Implementing an ‘asset drawdown strategy’ for site decarbonization

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The trend toward electrification is being accelerated by upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements for large publicly traded companies as well as by the ongoing greening of the grid. The green power market, a subset of the larger electricity market in the U.S.,

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Black Gold Rush

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While Dakotans have been thriving up North, few states were hit harder by the national downturn than California. Last year, a State Budget Crisis Task Force headed by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker estimated California’s long-term debt at a staggering $370 billion. Map of U.S. shale gas and shale oil plays as of May 9, 2011.