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Watt It Takes: Turning Real Estate Into Clean-Power Assets

GreenTechMedia

Blueprint works with real estate companies to turn their buildings into clean energy power plants. Robyn has a long history in the worlds of tech, real estate and energy. She later went into the world of real estate, where she oversaw venture investments at Lennar. This podcast is brought to you by CPower.

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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore.

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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

Let’s consider a relatively simple market, such as commercial real estate. It can be extremely complex to match up carbon emissions reductions purchased through carbon offsets, renewable energy certificates or direct purchases of zero-carbon energy under contract or on the spot market with your use of such energy.

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Why Aren’t Home Efficiency Scores Standard in Online Real Estate Listings?

GreenTechMedia

Portland, Oregon is the best real-world example in the U.S. A dozen cities or states, including Berkeley, California and Austin, Texas, now ask for at least some form of home energy information disclosure during residential real estate transactions. GTM asked Janna Green, a realtor with John L.

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NASCAR installs EV chargers at Daytona Beach headquarters

Charged

This is one step in the organizations Impact plan, which aims to reduce NASCARs carbon footprint to zero across its core operations by 2035. Electrifying real estate like parking at NASCAR headquarters puts these assets to work, accelerating the transition to sustainable mobility.

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How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation

GreenBiz

When I started poking around to identify other for-profit ventures in the business of land conservation, two other organizations that have been working with Microsoft jumped to mind, both of which provide technology for mapping and measuring forests : Pachama and Silvia Terra. .

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Science Based Targets Initiative backs new real estate decarbonisation push

Business Green

SBTi teams up with Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor initiative to develop fully aligned 1.5C decarbonisation pathways for the real estate sector. pathways for operational real estate emissions. CRREM and the SBTi said they have agreed to fully align their existing methodologies to 1.5C