Resources
Enhancing Resilience in Boston: A Guide for Large Businesses and Institutions
This report and its associated online toolkit provide building owners with information on 32 available resilience actions and technologies. It also provides a preliminary assessment of potential regulatory touch points within the City and state for resilience actions and considers initial ideas for district-level resilience strategies for the Boston area.
Green Leasing: An Effective Landlord-Tenant Strategy for Energy Efficiency
An Effective Tenant/Landlord Strategy for Energy Efficiency Published by A Better City, December 2014
Energy Efficiency & Commercial Real Estate Barriers and Opportunities in the Boston Market
This research paper is an effort to help inform policy makers, efficiency program administrators and the wider CRE community about the challenges and opportunities of energy efficiency in the Boston commercial property market. Section I of this report reviews statistics on three major commercial property sub-markets: Class A properties, Non-Class A properties, and hotels. Section
Green Labs Symposium White Paper
The Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s green labs symposium, co‐hosted by the GRC Higher Education Working Group (led by Harvard University) and the
Health Care Working group (led by Health Care Without Harm), brought together more than 150 lab experts from the higher education, healthcare, and
biotech sectors to explore shared challenges and successes in lab sustainability.
2014 Green Labs Symposium Summary
This document offers of the first Green Labs Symposium. For a look at all the materials related to the 2014 Green Labs Symposium, click here.
Climate Preparedness in Boston Higher Education Institutions
This report summarizes research on the climate change preparedness activities of three Boston-‐area universities: Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Boston University (BU). Prepared by Meister Consultants Group for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission February 2014
Powering The Future Of Health Care: Financial and Operational Resilience
A Combined Heat and Power Guide for Massachusetts Hospital Decision Makers
Powering The Future Of Health Care: Drilling Through the Barriers & Accelerating CHP Development
This document details the key outcomes from Health Care Without Harm’s Leadership Roundtable event in 2015 which convened experts to discuss barriers and opportunities for CHP growth in Massachusetts.