GreenBuild Blog

Green Building Market Put at $50 Billion

Friday, March 02, 2007

LOHAS Market Report for 2006, covering more than 2,000 US Consumers, puts the market for green buildings at $50 billion.

Thunder from Down Under

Sunday, February 25, 2007

The Australia “Green Cities 07” conference highlighted the growing commitment toward green buildings, amid widespread concern over climate change from global warming in that country.

North to Alaska!

Thursday, February 01, 2007

The green building movement is taking hold even in the frozen far north, as my recent visit to Alaksa showed.

The Investors are Coming! The Investors are Coming!

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Today’s Wall Street Journal (January 17th) carries an article, “Green Builders Draw Funds,” that documents the rising level of interest by private equity investors as well as individuals in putting money into green building products, materials, systems and companies, especially in the last six months.

Solar Cell Efficiency of 40 percent reached

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that DOE funding had produced a 40% efficient concentrating photovoltaic solar cell.

A green (building) letter day

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Three important articles on green building caught my eye today, involving private equity investments, green building renovations and the City of Palm Desert (California) imposing tougher energy conservation rules on new housing that state law.

I’m releasing my 2007 green building predictions! What are yours?

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Today, I’m releasing my 2007 predictions for major developments in the green building industry this coming year. As a consultant to many leading companies in this industry, I have a great vantage point to see what�s been happening and what’s likely to occur in the coming year. I wanted to release these predictions to encourage others to share their expectations for the growth of green buildings. What are yours?

California Launches $2.2 billion Solar Electric Program

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Effective the first day of 2007, the California investor-owned utilities will buy down the cost of residential and commercial solar power systems in the first phase of a $2.2 billion program to install solar on one million rooftops over the next 10 years.

Green Home Market Ready to Surge

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

All indications are that the green home market is going to surge in 2007 and 2008. My recent article gives 12 trends at work to promote green homes…

If it’s not a green building, is it obsolete?

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

This week’s Barron’s financial weekly has a great story making the business case for green buildings. Basically, if it’s not green it’s obsolete the day it opens.

The 10 million home Internet power drain

Friday, December 22, 2006

Worldwide Internet servers’ energy use is the equivalent of 10 million homes and growing rapidly. Time to do something about it.

Banned In Boston

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Boston will effectively ban any large-scale construction (over 50,000 square feet, basically more than a two-story office building) that is not at a minimum LEED-Certified.

Show Me the Money, or What the �Do Nothing� Republican Congress Just Did

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Little noticed in the hoopla about the Democrats’ pending takeover of the House and Senate is what the lame-duck Congress did earlier this month that will benefit green buildings. What, you say? They did. Yessiree, they sure did. Read on�

Are green homes endangered by market conditions?

Monday, December 11, 2006

Industry insiders report that major homebuilders are pushing suppliers to lower costs by 10%, in a bid to keep some profits from home sales.

Should green buildings be mandated?

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

The Washington, DC, City Council this week required private developers of more than 50,000 sq.ft. of new buildings and major renovations to meet the LEED certification standard by 2012.

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