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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Navigant Energy Articles
Big players in the consulting space
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Eco Font
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This font uses up to 20% less ink to print.
This font uses up to 20% less ink to print.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Energy Literacy presentation
This is a good video with some great images...
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
AB 811 - Funding for Residential Renewables
Government Funded Residential Renewable Energy Projects
Introduced by Assembly Members Levine and Beall, AB 811 is a bill that would promote residential installation of renewable energy systems by connecting property owners to financing arrangements within all California cities and counties.
Financed through low interest loans, these contractual agreements would allow residential property owners to finance the installation of renewable energy generating systems as well as energy efficiency improvements. The loans would be repaid as an item on the property tax bill.
While California residents are likely to be eager regarding installation of solar panels, this bill removes the obstacle of financing.
The bill reads: "This bill authorizes California cities and counties to designate areas within which city officials and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources, including solar, and energy efficiency improvements."
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Introduced by Assembly Members Levine and Beall, AB 811 is a bill that would promote residential installation of renewable energy systems by connecting property owners to financing arrangements within all California cities and counties.
Financed through low interest loans, these contractual agreements would allow residential property owners to finance the installation of renewable energy generating systems as well as energy efficiency improvements. The loans would be repaid as an item on the property tax bill.
While California residents are likely to be eager regarding installation of solar panels, this bill removes the obstacle of financing.
The bill reads: "This bill authorizes California cities and counties to designate areas within which city officials and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources, including solar, and energy efficiency improvements."
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Real Estate Leader's Sustainable Initiative
Enterprise, a large scale developer of low-income communities that provides "financing and expertise to community and housing developers" issued a press release today announcing a new initiative in sustainable development:
Enterprise Helps Make Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting Carbon Neutral, Offsets Pollution to Create Green Affordable Homes through Enterprise
October 29 2008 - Enterprise, today, announced that the 2008 ULI Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo will be completely carbon neutral as a result of funding from the Enterprise Green Communities Offset Fund(TM).
Enterprise will “offset” all the emissions of carbon dioxide generated by the meeting by providing funds to reduce an equivalent amount of emissions in environmentally sustainable affordable housing developments participating in Enterprise’s Green Communities(R) initiative.
“ULI’s commitment to offset its annual meeting means first and foremost that low-income families will experience the benefits of living in a green affordable home,” said Dana Bourland, senior director of the Enterprise Green Communities initiative and managing director of the Offset Fund. “It’s also a strong statement by the leaders of the real estate community that green buildings can and must be part of the solution to climate change.”
More than 5,000 real estate industry leaders from around the world are attending the ULI meeting, which will run Monday, October 27 through Thursday, October 30 in Miami, Fla. Enterprise estimates that the attendees will generate more than 5,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from their travel as well as the energy use associated with the hotels where attendees are staying and the convention center where the meeting is being held.
Through the Green Communities Offset Fund, Enterprise will provide funding by purchasing an offset from affordable housing developers to increase energy efficiency and utilize renewable energy technologies in their projects.
“The developments we will assist to offset the ULI meeting would have included energy-efficiency and environmental features anyway as a result of participating in the Enterprise Green Communities initiative,” Bourland said. “The additional funding we will provide through the Green Communities Offset Fund will enable the projects to achieve deeper carbon emissions reductions than they otherwise would have been able to realize.”
Among the contributors to the Green Communities Offset Fund that funded the ULI meeting offset were Bart Harvey, who donated a portion of his prize from the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development to the Fund, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate Class VII.
The ULI J.C. Nichols Prize, which includes a $100,000 prize, recognizes a person or a person representing an institution whose career demonstrates a commitment to the highest standards of responsible development. Harvey shares the honor with Enterprise, for which he worked for 23 years, serving as board chairman and chief executive officer.
Since the inception of Green Communities in 2004, Enterprise has invested more than $570 million in grants, loans and equity to create more than 13,500 highly sustainable homes that are either complete or in development in more than 300 communities; trained more than 3,000 affordable housing professionals in sustainable design and development practices and influenced more than 20 city and state affordable housing policies to support green affordable development.
Enterprise is a leading provider of the development capital and expertise it takes to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. For 25 years, Enterprise has pioneered neighborhood solutions through public-private partnerships with financial institutions, governments, community organizations and others that share our vision. Enterprise has raised and invested $9 billion in equity, grants and loans to help build or preserve 225,000 affordable rental and for-sale homes to create vital communities. Enterprise is currently investing in communities at a rate of $1 billion a year.
Visit http://www.enterprisecommunity.org and http://www.enterprisecommunity.com to learn more about Enterprise’s efforts to build communities and opportunity, and to meet some of the half a million people we have helped.
Enterprise Helps Make Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting Carbon Neutral, Offsets Pollution to Create Green Affordable Homes through Enterprise
October 29 2008 - Enterprise, today, announced that the 2008 ULI Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo will be completely carbon neutral as a result of funding from the Enterprise Green Communities Offset Fund(TM).
Enterprise will “offset” all the emissions of carbon dioxide generated by the meeting by providing funds to reduce an equivalent amount of emissions in environmentally sustainable affordable housing developments participating in Enterprise’s Green Communities(R) initiative.
“ULI’s commitment to offset its annual meeting means first and foremost that low-income families will experience the benefits of living in a green affordable home,” said Dana Bourland, senior director of the Enterprise Green Communities initiative and managing director of the Offset Fund. “It’s also a strong statement by the leaders of the real estate community that green buildings can and must be part of the solution to climate change.”
More than 5,000 real estate industry leaders from around the world are attending the ULI meeting, which will run Monday, October 27 through Thursday, October 30 in Miami, Fla. Enterprise estimates that the attendees will generate more than 5,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from their travel as well as the energy use associated with the hotels where attendees are staying and the convention center where the meeting is being held.
Through the Green Communities Offset Fund, Enterprise will provide funding by purchasing an offset from affordable housing developers to increase energy efficiency and utilize renewable energy technologies in their projects.
“The developments we will assist to offset the ULI meeting would have included energy-efficiency and environmental features anyway as a result of participating in the Enterprise Green Communities initiative,” Bourland said. “The additional funding we will provide through the Green Communities Offset Fund will enable the projects to achieve deeper carbon emissions reductions than they otherwise would have been able to realize.”
Among the contributors to the Green Communities Offset Fund that funded the ULI meeting offset were Bart Harvey, who donated a portion of his prize from the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development to the Fund, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate Class VII.
The ULI J.C. Nichols Prize, which includes a $100,000 prize, recognizes a person or a person representing an institution whose career demonstrates a commitment to the highest standards of responsible development. Harvey shares the honor with Enterprise, for which he worked for 23 years, serving as board chairman and chief executive officer.
Since the inception of Green Communities in 2004, Enterprise has invested more than $570 million in grants, loans and equity to create more than 13,500 highly sustainable homes that are either complete or in development in more than 300 communities; trained more than 3,000 affordable housing professionals in sustainable design and development practices and influenced more than 20 city and state affordable housing policies to support green affordable development.
Enterprise is a leading provider of the development capital and expertise it takes to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. For 25 years, Enterprise has pioneered neighborhood solutions through public-private partnerships with financial institutions, governments, community organizations and others that share our vision. Enterprise has raised and invested $9 billion in equity, grants and loans to help build or preserve 225,000 affordable rental and for-sale homes to create vital communities. Enterprise is currently investing in communities at a rate of $1 billion a year.
Visit http://www.enterprisecommunity.org and http://www.enterprisecommunity.com to learn more about Enterprise’s efforts to build communities and opportunity, and to meet some of the half a million people we have helped.
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