April 19, 2010

WICHITA Compass Star Montessori is inviting the public to tour its energy-efficient, “all green” school building as part of its weeklong celebration of Earth Day.

As green buildings become more common in the real estate sector and climate-change-related regulation develops, two issues are arising in real estate transactions: new financing mechanisms and the need for green building due diligence.

San Francisco, CA Green:Net 2010 examines how the tools created for the Internet, computing and IT revolutions will be crucial for fighting climate change.

Apologies to Pete Seeger, but last Monday, when I checked in at registration for Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Green conference and was handed the magazine’s latest issue, I didn’t expect the cover to be grey with an image of an unnerved executive, chair blasting into space (at least I hope that’s what the picture is supposed to be, the delinquent in me has other ideas).

“Impacting public awareness on green building is considered a priority in our future investments and projects, alongside a number of experts, we designed a strategy and a work plan, through which an awareness campaign will be implemented consisting of different awareness courses focusing on the importance of standardization and regulation codes besides different types of lectures and studies …

ITC Welcomgroup turned to the experts at Carrier Airconditioning & Refrigeration Ltd. to provide an energy efficient cooling solution for the ITC Hotel Royal Gardenia, Bengaluru, which was recently awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum Rating by the Indian Green Building Council, making it the world’s largest and Asia’s first LEED Platinum Rated Green Hotel …

AMERICAN CANYON — The 650,000-square-foot Kendall Jackson Family Wines Distribution Center earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it one of the largest LEED projects in the state.

Stop by the home of Chandu Visweswariah and Patricia Buchanan, and it looks like many other homes in a rustic neighborhood just north of the village of Croton-on-Hudson.

San Francisco’s Green Toys makes all its toddler tea sets, building blocks and toy trucks out of plastic recycled from milk jugs. It uses minimal packaging – just simple cardboard with no twist ties, shrink wrap or plastic bubbles. But its biggest “green”… San Francisco – Milk – Plastic – Shrink wrap – Toy block

San Francisco’s Green Toys makes all its toddler tea sets, building blocks and toy trucks out of plastic recycled from milk jugs. It uses minimal packaging – just simple cardboard with no twist ties, shrink wrap or plastic bubbles. But its biggest “green”… Milk – San Francisco – Plastic – Shrink wrap – Toy block