LEED Gold office for sale at sustainable Victoria dev.

BIZ  Real Estate  •  Office  •  British Columbia

A showcase LEED Gold-certified office property in Victoria’s Inner Harbour has been placed on the sale block. The three-storey, 14,383-square-foot, class-AAA office building at 376 Harbour Road was completed in 2019. It sits just across the road from the waterfront.

Give it up for these examples of net-zero innovation

Real Estate  •  GreenBiz

There are two corporate initiatives prioritizing investments in on-site technologies that actually move buildings toward that elusive net-zero operational status, a remodelled McDonald’s restaurant at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and the NHL Seattle franchise Climate Pledge Arena.

Commercial PACE lending in US growing rapidly

Energy  •  Clean Energy Finance Forum

C-PACE was growing at breakneck speed before the pandemic. In 2019, cumulative C-PACE investment surpassed $1.5 billion, and annual activity increased 150% to $670 million, according to data from PACENation, a national nonprofit that advocates for PACE financing.

Green infrastructure can revive post COVID-19 world

Real Estate  •  ipolitics

This brief is produced by the Building Back Better Post-COVID-19 Task Force, experts affiliated to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and its UNESCO Chairs Network. Their goal is to bring together sustainable economic recovery ideas in a post-COVID-19 world.

Ontario launches Climate Change Impact Assessment

Real Estate  •  Daily Commercial News

The Ontario government has selected a consulting team led by the Climate Risk Institute to conduct a climate change impact assessment for the province. Over two years the institute will conduct research and develop an engagement plan for public consultation.

Geothermal energy and its potential in Canada

Energy  •  Clean Energy Canada

Many parts of Canada are home to the natural conditions required for the extraction of geothermal energy, specifically in parts of Western Canada also home to many workers with a skillset that could also be applied to the geothermal industry.

What’s needed to combat flood risk in Canada?

Real Estate  •  Insurance Business Canada

One roadblock preventing more successful flood risk mitigation in Canada is the lack of data and knowledge sharing. Researchers at Environment and Climate Change Canada found only 6% of Canadian homeowners surveyed were correctly able to identify they are living in a high-risk flood area.

Celebrating CDP at 20: A Q&A with Paul Dickinson

Real Estate  •  CDP

Paul Dickinson co-founded the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in 2000 with an ambition of creating a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental boundaries. CEO of CDP from 2001 to 2010, he then took on his current role of Executive Chair.

Long way to go to reach zero waste goals in Montreal

Real Estate  •  Montreal Gazette

Montreal’s aim is to keep 85 per cent of its trash out of landfills by 2030. But there’s a long way to go considering Montreal, its boroughs and the rest of the municipalities on the island currently only divert 47 per of waste.

TEQ and GENA form hydrogen-focused partnership

Energy  •  H2-View  •  H2-View

Energy Transition Québec (TEQ) and the German Energy Agency (GENA) have launched international cooperation to boost the energy transition through the use of hydrogen technologies. Experts are exchanging views on greater energy efficiency in industry and buildings.

JetBlue Airways reaches carbon neutrality with offsets

Energy  •  CAPA Centre for Aviation  •  Air Canada Sustainability Report

JetBlue Airways is the first US airline to reach carbon neutrality on all domestic services by offsetting CO2 emissions from jet fuel for seven million metric tonnes of CO2 in support of landfill gas capture, renewable energy, and forestry conservation.

Recently released company sustainability reports

Energy, Real Estate  • 

Aecon Group Inc., ARE-T, Inaugural sustainability report

Air Canada, AC-T, Citizens of the World, Sustainability Report

Fisher River Cree Nation unveils Manitoba’s biggest solar farm

Real Estate  •  Canada Newswire  •  Winnipeg Free Press

Fisher River Cree Nation has launched the biggest solar project in Manitoba. The 1-megawatt facility, built entirely by Indigenous employees, has almost 3,000 solar panels.  It will generate revenue for the community and inspire other First Nations to pursue renewable solutions.

Why NextEra’s green hydrogen pilot is a big deal

Energy  •  GreenBiz

NextEra’s announcement is exciting because of its growth potential. Its subsidiary, FPL has plans to deploy 30 million solar panels by 2030 and it has an enormous fleet of gas plants, a lot of places where NextEra potentially could site hydrogen electrolyzers.

LS Power energizes World’s biggest battery

Energy  •  Green Tech Media  •  Power Engineering

Stealthy grid infrastructure developer LS Power now operates the largest grid battery in the world. The Gateway Energy Storage project launched earlier this summer, with an initial tranche of 62.5 megawatts/62.5 megawatt-hours, the most powerful battery in the U.S.

California cities want communities to control microgrids

Energy  •  MicroGrid Knowledge

A coalition representing 14 cities and 23 counties in California urged state regulators to give communities a chance to control community microgrid pilots and not restrict them to utilities arguing the state’s current “top-down” approach is not working.

Princeton researching carbon-free electrical grids

Energy  •  Environmental Leader

A Princeton research team will develop a technical blueprint for rapid and affordable emissions reductions to the grid that controls electricity flows for 13 U.S. states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland, while also securing reliable electricity supply.

RMI, major oil and gas companies support methane monitoring

Energy  •  Rocky Mountain Institute  •  Ceres

At Rocky Mountain Institute, we don’t often agree with major players in the oil and gas industry, including BP, Equinor, Exxon, and Shell. However, today we forcefully supported their condemnation of the US EPA’s decision to end methane emissions monitoring.

Senator Warren urges SEC to mandate climate risk disclosure

Real Estate  •  Ceres

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to tackle climate change as a systemic financial risk, and to heed the recommendations in a report from the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets.

The Delaware, a promising new era for urban river clean-up

Real Estate  •  Yale 360

An island on the Delaware River offers an expansive view of an industrial landscape and a procession of jets landing at Philadelphia Airport. Yet, it’s no concern to families at the island to wade and swim on a sunny day.