Leading building owners and investment advisory firms have joined corporate tenants in committing to a statement of principles and a Green Lease Action Plan to resolve the challenges of energy and sustainability in leased commercial office space.
Green, the catchall ecoconscious term, increasingly means greenbacks for businesses. Companies are eagerly climbing aboard the sustainablity bandwagon, as record unemployment, sluggish job growth and frozen credit markets sap business.
With new construction lagging, construction worker Matt Stefnik of Seabeck found himself unemployed this year, the construction company he worked for having gone bankrupt. So in the spring, he decided to get trained in the one sector of the construction industry that is actually growing: green building. Stefnik enrolled in Olympic College
Austin – Jeremy Martin, of RisherMartin Renovations, recently became one of the select group of professional builders, remodelers, and other industry professionals nationwide who have earned the Certified Green Professional (CGP) designation, identifying him as someone with knowledge of the best strategies for incorporating green building principles into homes.
GREEN BROOK Superintendent Stephanie Bilenker can’t wait for Aug. 3, the scheduled date for bids relating to the multilayered turf project at Green Brook Middle School to be opened in the Somerset County engineering office.
The Empire State Building today unveiled a $2 million interactive, multi-media sustainability exhibit at the second floor visitor’s center, which showcases a $20 million energy retrofit project that was announced in April 2009 with President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Shortly after unveiling footage from Green Lantern to an eager Comic-Con crowd, cast and crew gathered for a followup press conference. Director Martin Campbell joined Producer Donald De Line and actors Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Mark Strong (Sinestro) and Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond) to field questions about the big-screen origin story. Q: Is Green Lantern a …
Take Boston Latin School, and pack on top of its building a weather station, a greenhouse, two outdoor classrooms, a cafeteria, and a garden. Then add solar panels, wind turbines, and the outdoor elevator. Green roof – Wind turbine – Photovoltaic module – Business – Energy
The Green Building Council of Australia is NOT operating any program – federally funded or otherwise – to conduct audits of people’s homes.
Submitted by Courtney Brooks on Sun, 07/25/2010 – 6:44pm. READ MORE: Saturday the Cape Fear Green Building Alliance put on an oil spill fundraiser. The alliance had a book sale featuring “Carolina Perserves”.
