It’s been awhile since I have written, but I am moving from San Francisco to Portland, the most sustainability conscious U.S. city, and I needed to take a vacation AND get everything moved. By the second week in October I should be settled in. More about that in my next post. First the good news. I wanted to bring to your attention a fact taken from a New York Times article entitled, An Investment... [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘energy’
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Investment in Sustainable Energy Sector Falls 53%
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Environmental Sustainability and Aging Skyscrapers
Often times in a conversation it takes just one example to communicate a meaning of a word or concept. In the case of environmental sustainability such an example is the retrofit of the Sears Tower in Chicago. As detailed in today’s New York Times article, the Tower is “4.5 million square feet of office and retail space, 16,000 windows and 104 elevators.” Environmental sustainability... [Read more]
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
McKinsey weighs in on Battery-powered Age
McKinsey Quarterly article Electrifying cars: How three industries will evolve My friend and alternative energy colleague, Paul Steinbroner of Energy.tv, has been documenting the electric car industry for years, knows EVERYBODY, and is in the process of raising funds for a major alternative energy documentary staring plug-in pioneer, Dr. Andy Frank. Here’s what McKinsey says about plug-ins: “are... [Read more]
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Sustainability as Critical Business Issue – 69%
Survey results by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle, November 10, 2008 as reported in The Earth Times.
Of the more than 400 Corporate Real Estate Executives (CREs) surveyed, 69 percent said sustainability is a critical business issue for their real estate departments. When CoreNet and Jones Lang LaSalle asked the same question in 2007, 47 percent said it was a critical issue. Furthermore,... [Read more]
