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20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity

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Green Building Council is expanding its LEED for Cities and Communities program with a new $500,000 grant from Bank of America. Read: 20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity at BusinessFacilities.com.

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15 Cities, Counties Join Green Buildings Leadership Program

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In partnership with Bank of America, USGBC LEED for Cities certification has provided over $2 million to accelerate action on climate change, resilience, and social equity.

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3 Takeaways from Living Future 2021

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Once again, Living Future 2021 convened a brilliant group of thought leaders and practitioners to discuss the intersection of climate, health, and equity in the built environment. Policies include setting a U.S. 2: ZERO CARBON REQUIRES INTEGRATED EMBODIED CARBON.

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

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Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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Team USA Goes for Gold

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The key ingredients for the impending FDI feast can be summed up in the “three E’s”–energy, education and equity–which, combined with the world’s largest consumer market give the U.S. ”European banks are going through their third round of stress tests, something we did four years ago.

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Wyoming Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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The business must provide a bank “letter of credit” to guarantee payment of the bonds. Through this program, qualified businesses can obtain capital in the form of debt or equity financing. These bonds are issued within the State’s IRS allocation of tax-exempt bond financing.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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Green Building. Negative equity is not a good sign for any segment of our market – new construction, existing home sales, new construction, commercial work as well as the support services that cater to the real estate market. On the commercial side, there are plenty of Private Equity funds set up to purchase Class A facilities.