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Environmental Blog
http://www.lisagalley.blogspot.com
This blog is for the green commercial real estate finance and investment community and covers climate change, market trends, sustainability, politics, regulation, triple bottom line investing.
Recent Posts
Powerful leasing stats for green buildings — on two continents
Strong evidence continues to build showing that green buildings can deliver better investment value, both now and later. Moreover, the strength of this assertion is underscored when you see confirmation of leasing performance from unrelated internati...
More on green lease clauses: Out with the bad, in with the good
Today’s post shares details about that “bad” green lease featured last Friday. Also I’m sharing a few green lease tips from BEPN that talk about ways green lease language can help support value creation in environmentally ce...
Task force to Mayor Newsom: “Your 7 keys to existing building efficiency in San Francisco.”
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom together with Dan Geiger, Executive Director of the USGBC Northern California Chapter and members of Task Force for Existing Building Efficiency. How can green finance help increase existing commercial building effici...
The little clause that killed a green building sale
Here’s a live action green building underwriting story. Basically, it underscores the need for property owners and lenders to make sure their underwriting processes are tailored to certified green and/or Energy Star qualified buildings. Tonight...
Green building investment an ‘affordable truth’
Did you catch Paul Krugman’s op-ed in the NY Times this past Sunday? Essentially, he says that going green is more affordable than certain folks would like for us to realize. Moreover, he thinks that the investment that would be required by bui...
Mandatory NY green retrofits R.I.P, but does it really matter?
Blowback from NY building owners forces Bloomberg to drop mandatory retrofit proposals. But, does this really matter for green building? Mayor Bloomberg had to scale back his announced plans to require New York building owners to obtain energy audits...

