In March of 2006, I began publishing greenbuildingsNYC, a blog that, over the past three years, has evolved to focus primarily on green construction projects, real estate transactions, and news items of interest to the New York City design, construction, and real estate industries. While I have been writing and speaking about green real estate law at gbNYC and elsewhere since 2006, much of that discussion was getting lost in gbNYC’s increasing focus on green design and real estate transactions. I launched GRELJ in November of 2008 in an effort to create a space for a more robust discussion of many of the emerging legal issues associated with green building and real estate.

gbNYC actually grew out of an article I wrote during law school about LEED, which was published by the UC-Davis Environs Environmental Law & Policy Review in 2005. In the fall of 2006, I became one of the first ten attorneys in the country to earn the LEED AP designation from USGBC. Since then, GRELJ has been featured across the web in such publications as the New York Times’ Green, Inc. blog, Treehugger, and Jetson Green. We draw a consistent and growing audience of industry stakeholders from diverse geographic and professional backgrounds and welcome the submission of articles for publication consideration.