Topic Archive: Commercial Real Estate
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The Boston Globe: With flashier floods and stronger hurricanes, ‘I don’t think we know what normal is anymore’
Climate scientists say the extreme rainfall and flash floods in Leominster are now expected on a warming planet — and there’s much more to come
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Boston Real Estate Times: Boston Among North American Cities Best Positioned to Withstand Climate Change Impacts, Reports CBRE
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The Boston Globe: Once seen as opponents to climate action, utilities and the business community are making changes. Is that a sign the tides are turning?
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GRCx Webinar: Leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act to Advance Institutional Climate Action
Large institutional property owners (higher education, health care, cultural institutions) play key roles in advancing climate action. They are major energy users and asset owners, investing in resilience and decarbonization on their own property; they invest in climate “applied R&D” that can be shared with others; and they are respected voices in climate policy deliberations. …
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WBUR: Why Mayor Wu says Boston’s ‘hands are tied’ on tackling the city’s biggest source of emissions
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is chipping away at the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions: buildings. But she’s growing a little restless she can’t move faster.
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The Boston Globe: Mayor Wu signs executive order banning fossil fuels in new city-owned buildings
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State House News Service (via NBC Boston): Public beach stewards bracing for ‘obvious destruction’ of rising seas
Massachusetts is planning for a scenario that projects sea level rise of 1.2 feet by 2030, 3.2 feet by 2060, and 7.6 feet by the year 2100
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WBUR: Massachusetts’ new ‘green bank’ for climate-friendly housing, explained
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Boston Real Estate Times: AGC MA Announces Member Firm EV Charging Station Pledge
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Boston University’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences Receives LEED Platinum
The 345,000-square-foot collaborative research and teaching center is the University’s first LEED Platinum building and Boston’s largest fossil fuel-free building.
