Author Archives: ddresden

Greywater: Legal Liability or Untapped Resource?

March 23, 2010 – 1:40 pm

You know how things are in the West. People are a little more independent, a little more likely to take things into their own hands… And conditions are a lot more arid, which makes people a lot more concerned about squeezing the last drop of utility out of every – you guessed it – last [...]

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Do Building Appraisers Understand the Value of Green?

March 18, 2010 – 6:17 am

If you think it’s not easy being green, try measuring it. In fact, establishing the financial benefits of green building and making sure they’re accounted for in a building’s appraisal is one of the more significant challenges facing the industry today. When appraisals for green construction don’t reflect the value of the technology used to [...]

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Katrina Victims Sue Oil Companies for Causing Hurricanes

March 16, 2010 – 8:47 pm

What gave Hurricane Katrina its extra-special punch?  Was it global warming, a crumbling infrastructure, official bungling, something else or some combination of it all? These questions might sound like fodder for grad students or pundits, but they could soon be explored in a court of law, thanks to a class action lawsuit filed by a [...]

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Winds of Change? Could a National RES Keep Growth Going?

March 13, 2010 – 9:26 am

The sun may shine and the wind might blow without government support, but some green industry advocates say long- term policy initiatives are necessary to boost the fledgling wind power industry. In an effort to encourage Congressional support for passage of a strong national Renewable Energy Standard (RES), and to show that politicians aren’t the [...]

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Investors Use Green to Make More Green

March 10, 2010 – 4:18 pm

Everyone knows it takes green to go green. Now it seems some investors are discovering that taking an environmentally aware approach to property investing could make them some green in the not-too long run. Take Jamestown Properties, a German real estate investment company, which has said it will invest $3 – $10 million to retrofit [...]

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