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Phases of Commercial Real Estate Development

Construction Marketing

This can be done through a purchase or lease agreement. The developer will also work with other professionals, such as landscape architects, interior designers, and environmental consultants, to ensure that the project is sustainable and complies with all environmental regulations and laws.

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A Day in the Life of a Green Building Attorney

Green Building Law Update

This blog post is not as epic as A Day in the Life , the last song on the Sgt. My practice is almost exclusively sustainability including green building law, so a good response may be to look at a typical day. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album that Rolling Stone magazine ranked as the greatest Beatles song ever.

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Cooperative Living in the UK

Natural Building

The solutions to these interlocking ideas include measures made via policy, legislation and global agreements, and also the personal choices made by individuals and groups, like driving and flying less, consuming more ethically, eating a more plant-based diet, changing the way we work and live. You can read the original article at phys.org.

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Green Building Law Blog - Untitled Article

Green Building Law Blog

Since 2007, Shari has published Green Building Law Blog, a nationally acclaimed blog on green building and renewable energy law and policy, available at www.greenbuildinglawblog.com. Shari is very involved in developing sustainability in the Delaware Valley and beyond. Shari is a member of the Legal Advisory Board for the U.S.

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

There would have to be some agreement, that does not exist today of what it means to be net zero (e.g., And maybe that includes an agreement that zero is more like the historical absence in the number of columns counted by Sumerian scribes 4,000 years ago than a modern laboratory measure of non-detect? yes, this blog will continue).

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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

By way of example, a solar system can simply be purchased by a business and installed onsite or the solar system can be financed using a solar loan, lease, or power purchase agreement; or in the alternative green electricity generated by offsite solar panels can be purchased from an electric utility. yes, this blog will continue).

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The Second Best Way to Mitigate Your Risk in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

As I posted in this blog less than a year ago, Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts are Properly Drafted. For the first time, beginning in 2007, there was a single short clause in B101 contract document about sustainability in the project. that many suggest is still the best single guide to sustainable contracting).

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