Timeline

2017

• August 18^th MOVING ROOM 0

2016

2015

• December 1^st Get Compensation For Many Types Of Injuries Using A Personal Injury Lawyer 0
• August 28^th AppleTV 0
• February 3^rd Do Green Building Investment Practices Impact Choice of Project Delivery Model? 0

2014

• August 31^st Berkeley Study Questions Increased Office Worker Satisfaction Claims in LEED-Certified Buildings 0
• August 24^th Personal Injury At Work And How Accident Claims Work 0
• June 20^th New Federal Legislation Portends Push for P3 Delivery of Water Infrastructure Projects 0
• May 14^th Green Lease Leaders Recognition Program Announces Inaugural 2014 Class 0
• May 2^nd The Top 5 Legal Issues for Building Green in Public-Private Partnerships 0
• March 5^th Federal Circuit Reverses Metcalf v. United States and Renders Important Ruling for Design-Builders 0
• February 19^th In India, Costs & Lending Climate Seen Inhibiting Growth of Green Building Sector 0
• February 10^th IMT’s Green Lease Library Launches Green Lease Leaders Recognition Program 0
• February 4^th 2014 Reboot: Reintroducing the Green Real Estate Law Journal 0

2013

• November 21^st Better Buildings Partnership Adds MOU, Unveils Updated Green Lease Toolkit 0
• November 8^th In Ground Zero First, 4 World Trade Center Set to Open Its Doors 0
• November 1^st The Missing Link: More Data Is Key for Building Energy Retrofit Market 0
• October 30^th At 510 Madison, BXP Lands Freakonomics Firm in Triple-Digit Penthouse Deal Comments Off
• October 23^rd Penn 2023: Making the Case for a New Penn Station, MSG, & Midtown West 0
• October 17^th The Top 5 Issues For Technology Companies Leasing Office Space in New York City 1
• October 10^th First Dibs: Online Auctioneer Is First Tenant at LEED Gold-Hopeful 51 Astor Place 0
• October 9^th On Long Island, Sag Harbor Passes $1 Million Green Building Tax Exemption 0
• October 6^th City Rolls Out “LEED for Broadband” Certification Program for NYC Office Buildings 0
• October 1^st City of Dreams: Finalists Announced for 2014 Governors Island Pavilion Design Competition 0
• September 29^th Big Tower, Small Spaces: 1 WTC to Subdivide 2 Full Floors for 18 Office Tenants 0
• September 25^th In Midtown, Two More Class A Office Buildings Earn LEED-EB: OM Certification 0
• September 17^th Old is New: Verizon HQ Makes Midtown Move to 1095 Sixth Avenue 0
• September 12^th Downtown Download: Data Center Provider Signs Lease at 375 Pearl Street 0
• September 10^th WTC Construction Update: With Transit Hub on Horizon, Office Towers, Museum to Open By 2014 1
• September 4^th In Montclair, Auto Dealership to Transform Into LEED-Rated Mixed-Use Development 0
• August 22^nd Big, Bright, & Green: A Closer Look at the Future of Midtown West 0
• August 20^th Targeting LEED Gold, Mixed-Use 837 Washington Street Tops Out in Meatpacking District 0
• August 15^th IMT & RILA’s Industry Primer Takes Aim At Defining Retail Green Leasing 0
• August 11^th On West 43rd Street, Tech Firm Quickly Expands at Former New York Times Building 0
• July 29^th The Top Five Possible Locations for a New Madison Square Garden 0
• July 25^th Netherlands-Based 3D Printer Doubles Park Avenue South Office Space 0
• July 22^nd Green 2.0: NYC to Open Clean Tech Startup Incubator in Brooklyn Tech Triangle 0
• July 11^th With Term Sheet Signed, Richard Rogers’ LEED Gold 3 WTC Almost Ready to Rise 0
• July 9^th Stream On: Internet Music Providers Ink Major Manhattan Leases 1
• July 3^rd In Paris, Natixis Signs Green Lease for Gare de Lyon Office Space Renewal 0
• June 24^th Hello, Silicon Triangle? Plan for Downtown Brooklyn Aims to Grow Borough’s $6B Tech Industry 1
• June 11^th In Helsinki, Finnish Real Estate Concern Closes Its First Green Lease 1
• June 6^th 770 Broadway Friended: Facebook NYC Expanding at LEED Silver Vornado Tower 0
• June 4^th Former WOR Building at 1440 Broadway Earns LEED-EB: OM Gold Certification 0
• May 28^th Times Square Tech Takeover Continues with New Yahoo! NYC Offices 0
• May 23^rd Cornell NYC Tech to Bring Net Zero, LEED Platinum to $2B Roosevelt Island Campus 2
• May 20^th With 1 World Trade Center Topped Out, Industry Expects Rest of Tenants Will Come 1
• May 14^th Mid-Sized Midtown Office Buildings Earn LEED-EB: OM Certification 1
• May 8^th Connecting with 100K: LinkedIn Continues to Expand at Empire State Building 0
• May 3^rd Midtown South Buzz: Tech Firm Doubles Space in Move to 200 Fifth Avenue 1
• May 1^st Transformative East River Waterfront Blueway Responds to Sandy, Design Challenges 0
• April 24^th In Hudson Yards, Major Tenants to Join Coach at LEED Platinum South Office Tower 1
• April 18^th 375 Pearl Street Continues Transformation Into Intergate.Manhattan Data Center 0
• April 15^th In the United Kingdom, Major Retailer Unveils “Transformative” Green Lease Policy 0
• April 2^nd With REIT Conversion Still Pending, Shutterstock Makes Move to Empire State Building 1
• March 26^th Midtown Double: Office, Retail Leases Finalized at 11 Penn Plaza, 11 Times Square 0
• March 21^st A New Generation: Pepsi’s First Manhattan Office Lease is at 350 Hudson Street 0
• March 20^th SUNY-Buffalo’s Engineering School Aims to Transform Nickel City Into Tech Hub 0
• March 15^th North of Johannesburg, South Africa’s 30th Green Star Building to Implement Green Leases 1
• March 12^th Gotham’s Charge to Nation’s EV Infrastructure Leader Begins in Battery Park City 0
• March 7^th Smart City: Hoboken to Become Laboratory for Use of Tech-Driven Urban Data 1
• March 6^th City Council Green Lights Bjarke Ingels’ 57th Street Pyramid Project 0
• March 4^th With Court’s Approval, Empire State Building REIT Conversion Takes Important Step Forward 0
• February 25^th Office & Retail Tenants Sign Four More Deals at 11 Times Square 1
• February 7^th Tech Moves: Advertising Firm Signs 5-Year Deal at Former NY Times HQ in Times Square 0
• February 1^st Near Penn Station, Brookfield Breaks Ground On Planned LEED Gold Manhattan West Development 1
• January 24^th With a Year to Go, Leasing Efforts at 1 World Trade Center Are Heating Up 0
• January 18^th In Midtown, Boutique Green Building Trades Hands in $128M Deal 0
• January 16^th The Perfect Storm: Green Light New York Releases Report on Retrofitting Daylight Controls in NYC Office Buildings 1
• January 14^th New Mobile App Contains, Compares Energy Star Scores for 1 Billion Square Feet of Real Estate 1
• January 10^th Manhattan LEED Buildings Land Large Q4 Leases with Sandow, AECOM 1
• January 7^th In City’s 3rd Largest 2012 Deal, Microsoft Boots Up 11 Times Square Lease 0

2012

• December 27^th New York City’s Top 5 Stories in Green Building: 2012 0
• December 17^th Tech Tenant Makes Midtown Move From 568 Broadway to Former NYT HQ 1
• December 13^th JV Secures Construction Financing and Breaks Ground on Planned LEED Gold 837 Washington Street 0
• December 11^th Is a 3D Printing Boom on City’s Horizon? European Printer Inks Park Avenue, Long Island City Leases 1
• December 6^th An Early Holiday Gift for You: GRELJ Green Leasing White Paper Available for Download 0
• December 6^th Transformation of Far West Side Begins as New York City Breaks Ground on Hudson Yards 1
• December 4^th Malkin Holdings Settles Empire State Building REIT Conversion Lawsuit for $55 Million 0
• December 3^rd In Good News for NYC’s Green Building Industry, Malkin Settles Empire State Building REIT Conversion Lawsuit 0
• November 27^th In Europe, Investors Are Seeking Green Real Estate Strategies, Not Simply Sustainability Certifications 0
• November 15^th Citing Costs, San Francisco Officials Grapple with City’s LEED Lease Requirements 0
• November 13^th Construction to Proceed at First LEED Platinum Hudson Yards Office Tower After Related Reigns in Financing 1
• November 8^th Chrysler Building Joins Other Midtown Icons in Earning LEED-EB Gold 4
• November 1^st Devastation in NYC & NJ Demonstrates Why Government Must Make Investments in Infrastructure a Matter of National Security 1
• October 25^th WilmerHale Lands LEED Gold for Energy Aligned Clause-Backed 7 WTC Office 0
• September 19^th In District of New Jersey, Hedge Fund Settles Suit in Connection With Purchase of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates 2
• August 16^th While Senior Citizens Are Waiting, Brooklyn Green Building Triples in Cost 1
• August 16^th In Long Island City, (Somewhat) Controversial JetBlue Signage Lands On Historic LEED Silver Brewster Building 0
• August 14^th Skygrove: NYC Architects Reimagine Office Building for World of Water 0
• August 7^th DOB Approves Zoning for Planned LEED Gold Office Tower at 837 Washington Street 0
• August 2^nd Urban Green Council Prepares FAQ for NYC’s Energy Aligned Lease Clause 0
• August 2^nd Urban Green Council Releases FAQ for Energy Aligned Lease Clause 1
• July 30^th New York State Passes Real Property Tax Exemption Legislation for Green Buildings 1
• July 19^th In First Appellate Decision to Consider EPCA Preemption, Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington State Energy Efficiency Code 0
• July 19^th GSA Finally Signs 20-Year Lease and 1 WTC Is 55-Percent Filled 1
• July 17^th At Empire State Building, LinkedIn Expands Its Office Space By Nearly a Third 0
• July 10^th Giveaway: Green Building Council of South Africa’s Green Lease Toolkit 0
• June 28^th In Third Parties We Trust? The Growing Antitrust Impact of Third-Party Green Building Certification Systems for State and Local Governments (Abstract) 0
• June 27^th New York City Buildings Continue Preparations for Dumping Number 6 Heating Oil 2
• June 19^th New York Academy of Sciences Examines Implications of Data-Driven Built Environment 0
• June 15^th Despite Uncertain Markets, Hines Secures Construction Financing for 7 Bryant Park 0
• June 14^th BOMA Objects to Philadelphia City Council’s Green Score Ordinance for Commercial Buildings 1
• June 13^th NYC’s Urban Rooftop Farming Boom to Continue With World’s Largest in The Bronx 1
• June 8^th Next Step in Empire State Building Retrofit is Exterior LED Lighting Installation 0
• June 5^th House Committee Holds Important Hearing on Science Behind Green Building Rating Systems 1
• June 1^st Historic LEED Gold 148 Lafayette Street Trades Hands for $132M 0
• June 1^st In Durban, Green Building Council of South Africa Unveils Green Lease Toolkit 0
• May 29^th Brooklyn Navy Yard Lands Two Tenants in Bid to Become NYC’s Green Manufacturing Hub 2
• May 25^th LEED 2012 versus LEED 2009: USGBC Delays Vote to Approve Updates Until August 0
• May 19^th Digital Map of New York City’s Tech Industry Demonstrates, Aims to Continue, Sector’s Expansion 2
• May 16^th Though Mandatory, LEED Gold-Hopeful 51 Astor Place Close to Landing First Tenant 0
• May 11^th First Quarter 2012 Green Real Estate Report Now Available 0
• May 2^nd Belgian REIT Follows French Legislation By Incorporating Environmental Appendix Into Parisian Net Lease 2
• April 24^th West Side, Sixth Avenue Setting the Pace in NYC’s LEED-EB Race 1
• April 20^th Going-Going-Green: Strategies for Fostering Sustainable New Federal Buildings: Is Revising the FAR the Key? 0
• April 17^th New York City Ranked Sixth in List of Cities Earning Energy Stars in 2011 0
• April 13^th Port Authority & Durst Unveil (London-Developed) Logo for 1 World Trade Center 4
• April 11^th LEED 2012 versus LEED 2009: Public Comment Period Closes in Advance of November Greenbuild Launch 0
• April 5^th Toronto Real Estate Industry Continues to Lobby Against Green Roof Mandate 1
• March 30^th Green Lease Library: DOE Launches Resource for Commercial Green Leasing 1
• March 29^th In SoHo, Historic 568 Broadway Becomes Beacon for New York City Tech Start-Ups 2
• March 29^th Incentives & Net Metering Yet to Materialize at 360 State Street: Connecticut’s First LEED Platinum Building 0
• March 27^th Tenants Are Drawn to LEED Label as 7 World Trade Center is Completely Filled 1
• March 20^th Checking in at 1 World Trade Center: On Antennas, Leases & Other Items 0
• March 14^th The Political Economy of Green Industrial Warehouses: Are Green Buildings More Valuable in Blue States? 5
• March 12^th Urban Green Council Sponsoring Green Leasing Salon at Knoll New York Showroom 0
• March 7^th Hearst Tower is First LEED-NC Gold Building in NYC to Earn LEED-EB: OM Platinum 2
• March 2^nd Plans to Launch Empire State Building-Backed REIT Challenged in New York County Supreme Court 2
• March 1^st Publisher Quadruples Space at Malkin’s REIT-Bound 250 West 57th Street 0
• February 28^th 6 Million Square Feet of LEED-Registered Office Space to Hit Manhattan Market in 2013 0
• February 23^rd Gray Area in Colorado Law Preventing CU-Boulder From Using Graywater System at LEED Platinum Dorm 0
• February 23^rd 7 Bryant Park: Hines Gets Approval to Name Green Trophy Tower 1
• February 21^st 2011-12 BOMA/NY Pinnacle Awards Field Featured Most LEED/Energy Star Buildings Ever 0
• February 17^th With Federal Funds, Texas-Based ESCO Retrofitting First Commercial Building in New York City 1
• February 14^th Malkin Holdings to Launch, Acquire New Properties Through, Empire Realty Trust REIT 0
• February 9^th District of New Mexico Rules Again on Summary Judgment Motions in AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque 0
• February 8^th After $50M Acquisition, Joint Venture to Pursue LEED Label for 200 Lafayette Street in SoHo 2
• January 31^st The Largest LEED Platinum Renovation, Ever, Is Midtown’s 270 Park Avenue 1
• January 25^th In Oregon Lease Renewal, New York-Based Tenant Negotiates Green Building Upgrades 0
• January 18^th California LEED Consulting Firm Files Unfair Competition Suit Against Former Employees 1
• January 9^th The Top 5 Stories in Green Real Estate Law: 2011 1
• January 4^th Near Stockholm, Nuclear Technology Company Signs Swedish Green Lease 0

2011

• December 28^th Top 5 Stories in New York City Green Real Estate: 2011 0
• December 13^th Planning Commission Unveils Proposed Green Amendments to New York City Zoning Resolution 2
• December 5^th REI Preserving Puck Building History at First NYC Retail Store in SoHo 2
• November 30^th Retro Broadway Lighting at High-Tech Flagship Starbucks in Times Square Powered by LEDs 4
• November 30^th Pop-Up New Zealand Shipping Container Mall Facing Lawsuit from UK Developer 0
• November 3^rd San Francisco Launches Green Leasing Toolkit for Commercial Office Buildings 3
• November 2^nd Coach, Inc. Will Anchor First LEED Platinum Tower to Rise at Hudson Yards 2
• October 19^th Empire State Building to Lease Full Floor of LEED-Eligible Pre-Built Offices 2
• October 18^th Net Zero Shipping Container Energy Center Opens in Brooklyn Bridge Park 4
• October 12^th 2010 FTC Green Guides: Update & Green Building Marketing Primer (Presentation) 3
• October 3^rd Halfway Home: With GSA Lease, 1 World Trade Center Now 50 Percent Full 2
• September 27^th NYC’s First LEED Gold Office Building Achieves 100 Percent Occupancy 0
• August 24^th Two Dudes Talking About A(n Unsuccessful) Lawsuit: gbNYC’s Meta-Interview On Henry Gifford’s Case Against LEED 2
• August 22^nd Cured for Preservation: Office Building to Rise Over Historic Meatpacking Warehouse 5
• August 17^th Southern District of New York Grants USGBC’s Motion to Dismiss Henry Gifford’s Amended Complaint 3
• August 14^th Here’s to Hines: Boutique Green Office Building Coming to Corner of Bryant Park 1
• August 5^th Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Rejects Contractor’s LEED-Driven Bid Protest 1
• July 31^st That’s a Wrap: Port Authority Unveils Translucent LED Bus Terminal Advertising Installation 0
• July 29^th Southern District of New York Hears Oral Argument on Motion to Dismiss in Gifford et al. v. USGBC 0
• July 26^th A Closer Look at the 2011 Midtown Manhattan Green Building Opportunity Index Profile Report 0
• July 22^nd The Great NYC Heating Oil Changeover (Is Not Why You’re Sweating) 3
• July 15^th Yale Building’s Proposed Green Features Help Uphold Zoning Amendment in State Court Appeal 0
• July 11^th Midtown Manhattan Ranks Second in 2011 Survey of U.S. Green Real Estate Markets 3
• June 20^th Geothermal Problems Could Shut Down Cooling System at Mission Critical Green Building 3
• June 16^th “Shadow Government?” Boston Architect Questions Propriety of LEED-Driven Legislation 4
• June 7^th Giveaway: Paul D’Arelli’s “Negotiating Leases in the Era of Green Building”* 14
• May 31^st Oregon Building’s Green Features & LEED Certification Play Role in Property Tax Appeal 1
• May 24^th New York City Buildings Opening Doors for Green Tech Startups 1
• May 24^th Starwood’s Element Ewing is New Jersey’s First LEED-Certified Hotel 0
• May 19^th New York City Buildings to Open Doors for Green Tech Startups 0
• May 18^th The Big 1: Conde Nast Inks To Anchor LEED Gold 1 WTC 1
• May 16^th Only on Eighth: World’s Fifth Ugliest Building Set for LED Makeover 2
• May 9^th “Green the Key” to Empire State Building Landing LinkedIn Lease 2
• May 5^th Henry Gifford Files Opposition to USGBC’s Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint 0
• May 3^rd At LEED Gold 7 WTC, Law Firm Signs New York City’s First Green Lease 10
• May 2^nd New York City Architects Design Green Building for Chinese Eco-City 3
• April 28^th Are LEED-Certified Buildings Actually Bird-Killing Machines? (Spoiler: No) 6
• April 25^th Taking The LEED: Empire State Building Gets Certified After All 0
• April 25^th GRELJ Recognized by LexisNexis as Top 50 Environmental Law Blog for 2011 0
• April 13^th Shine On: Is NYC Emerging As A Solar Hub? 2
• April 7^th In Midtown, Country’s Largest LEED-EB Building Lands Major New Tenant 0
• April 6^th USGBC Files Motion to Dismiss Henry Gifford’s Amended Complaint 3
• April 6^th Pointing to “Recession-Proof” Market, Green Building Supplier Brings Antitrust Suit Against Recycled-Content Flooring Manufacturer 1
• March 30^th Financial Firm Leases LEED Platinum Pre-Built on 42nd Floor of Empire State Building 1
• March 27^th 20 Times Square: Chinese Financing Could Raise LEED Gold Above World’s Fifth Ugliest Building 1
• March 23^rd Sounds Good: Inside Carnegie Hall’s LEED Silver Overhaul 1
• March 18^th Getting Loaded: Loadingdock5′s Passive Williamsburg Townhouse Back In Spotlight 2
• March 18^th Bain v. Vertex Architects: Firm “Failed to Diligently Pursue and Obtain LEED for Homes Certification from USGBC” 1
• March 11^th Can An Earthship Land Between Delancey and Rivington? 2
• March 11^th Country’s First Green Energy REIT Launches in New York City 4
• March 4^th Friday Reading: Floating Stadiums, Caracas’ 45-Story Walk-Up, The Ballad of Janette Sadik-Khan 0
• March 3^rd Tenants Taking to Pre-Built Green Spaces at Empire State Building 1
• February 25^th Destined for Disaster? “Revolutionary” Green Bond Financing for Syracuse Mega-Project In Jeopardy 5
• February 22^nd It’s Complicated: New York City Green Buildings Balk At, Earn LEED Certification 3
• February 18^th Weekend Reading: Great Moments In Urbanism That Weren’t; An Etymology Of Greenwashing; The Biggest Misconception About Energy Efficiency 0
• February 15^th Green Building Contracts: Considering the Roles of Consequential Damages & Limitation of Liability Provisions (Abstract) 1
• February 8^th Class Action No More: Gifford-Led Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint Against USGBC 11
• February 7^th Court Grants Summary Judgment to Defendants in BIAW et al. v. Washington State Building Code Council 2
• February 3^rd In Toronto, Ontario Municipal Board Rejects Request for LEED-Based Project Variance 2

2010

• December 31^st Top 5 Stories in Green Real Estate in Gotham: 2010 0
• December 30^th The Top 5 Legal Issues in Green Real Estate: 2010 4
• December 27^th Huge Net Zero HGA House in Southampton Earns LEED Platinum 0
• December 20^th Why You Won’t Find “LEEDigation” Under Your Green Building Christmas Tree 4
• December 14^th Violet and Green: NYU’s LEED Platinum-Hopeful Wilf Hall Opens To Positive Reviews — And Protests 0
• December 13^th Pointing to Gifford v. USGBC, British Building Scientist Identifies Global Green Building Performance Failures 6
• December 9^th Over One Billion Served: USGBC, LEED Hits Square-Foot Landmark, Keep Rolling 0
• November 29^th What You Missed At Greenbuild: Green Building Bloggers Predicting The Future 1
• November 24^th The Tea Party Versus Sustainable Development: Part One 1
• November 23^rd Defendants Move for Summary Judgment in BIAW et al. v. Washington State Building Code Council 1
• November 17^th Good News, But Not Really News: The Green Sector Is Growing, With Good Reason — But What Does That Mean? 0
• November 10^th Update: What’s Next for Henry Gifford’s Class Action Suit Against USGBC? 4
• November 10^th The Beautiful Sludge, or How Superfund-y Muck Becomes Lovely Glass Cubes 1
• November 8^th Everything That Rises Must Go Rental: Of Brands, Adaptive Reuse and Williamsburg’s Steelworks Lofts 1
• October 29^th Two Dudes Talking About A Lawsuit: The gbNYC Exclusive Meta-Interview On Henry Gifford’s Antitrust Suit Against The USGBC 2
• October 29^th At Greenbuild, USGBC to Ask About “Next Big Challenge” in Green Building Law 6
• October 26^th Department of Bummers: Net Zero Red Hook Green Project Rejected By DOB 1
• October 25^th Tunnel Vision: Jersey Governor Christie Reconsidering Hudson Rail Tunnel Shutdown? 0
• October 22^nd Australian Office Market Preparing for Mandatory Energy Disclosure Beginning November 1 1
• October 12^th Breaking: Henry Gifford Leads Class Action Lawsuit Against USGBC in Southern District of New York 41
• October 5^th District of New Mexico Rules on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment in AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque 3
• October 1^st Green Leasing: Owners, Brokers Must Carefully Consider Interplay of LEED-EB:OM and LEED-CI 2
• September 27^th Passive Resistance: America’s Passive House Problem, And Mine 8
• September 24^th The White Stuff: Shedding Some Light On NYC’s Cool Roofs Program 6
• September 24^th Cost Premiums, Risks Could Nix LEED Platinum at Silicon Valley Community College 1
• September 17^th Study: Lack of FSC-Certified Wood Products Creating Green Construction “Bottleneck” in New York 2
• September 10^th Your Parents Now Know More About Green Building: NPR Back For More On LEED 0
• September 8^th The Sun Shines On Jersey: How Garden State Developments Are Turning Solar Panels Into Selling Points 0
• September 7^th Your Parents Now Know What Green Building Is: About That LEED Feature On NPR’s All Things Considered 1
• September 1^st Down On The Riverside: Scott Stringer Unloads On Extell’s Riverside Center Mega-Development 0
• August 10^th Something In The Water: How To Bridge The Gap Between LEED Certification And Building Performance? 2
• August 4^th Plans For Extell’s Riverside Center Receive Another Thumbs Down 0
• July 30^th Making The Law, Making The Law: Suite of New Green Laws Curbs Bad Heating Oils, Boosts Recycling 0
• July 27^th New Domino: Worst Mega-Development in NYC, Or Just One of the Worst? 2
• July 22^nd Slow Train Coming: Phase 1 of Moynihan Station Project Might Actually Happen 2
• July 22^nd Is Canada “Avoiding” Exposure to Green Building Risks? 1
• July 19^th Gowanus Update: Green Condos, Brown Canal, Fleeing Developers, Superfund Adventures, Et Cetera 0
• July 14^th Fireman’s Fund Releases “Next Generation” Green Building Property Insurance Policy Endorsement 1
• July 8^th Portland Tenants Sign Green Leases at Unico Properties’ Commonwealth Building 1
• July 7^th WWJJD: What Would Jane Jacobs Think Of Green Building In New York City Circa Now? 1
• June 30^th Frank Talk: Gehry Explains Dropping The (Shiny, Maybe A Little Over The Top) Bomb On LEED 4
• June 24^th Queens Is Not Keen On Green, Glassy Flushing Commons 2
• June 22^nd Copyright Concerns Could KO Proposed Delaware Green Building Legislation 8
• June 17^th Dust Clearing at Riverhouse as Developer Secures $61M in Additional Financing 1
• June 14^th Not-Green Buildings NYC: Brooklyn’s Tampa-esque New Domino Development Gets Go-Ahead 0
• June 9^th Wild Week for Green Real Estate Law Includes Response to USGBC from Northland Pines Appellants 14
• June 8^th Building Industry Association of Washington Files Federal Lawsuit to Block Amended State Energy Code 3
• June 3^rd How’s The Fit? Get To Know Deutsche Bank’s Plan To Study he Efficiency (and Monetary) Value of Green Retrofits 0
• May 28^th Annals of Urban Planning Ambition: Getting To Know The South Bronx Greenway 0
• May 26^th Unit Owners File Suit Against LEED Gold-Hopeful Riverhouse in Battery Park City 11
• May 26^th Where Have All The Flowers Gone: Why Have Green Roofs Not Caught On In New York City? 6
• May 18^th Toronto Star Investigates “Shady” Ontario Green Building Industry 1
• May 17^th Grange Life: Press, Praise For Long Island City Rooftop Farm Brooklyn Grange, But Can It Work? 0
• May 13^th What Is Builder’s Risk Insurance and Should I Purchase It For My Green Construction Project? 3
• May 6^th How Might Courts Construe Permitted Use Clauses in Green Commercial Leases? 3
• April 29^th Breaking: USGBC Upholds LEED Gold Certification of Northland Pines High School 3
• April 22^nd Canadian Contractors Confronting Administrative Aspects of LEED Certification Process 0
• April 20^th The Big (And Fast!) Payback: Observer on The Sped-Up Timeline for Green Savings 0
• April 19^th Homes Sweet Homes: NYSERDA Gets Props From EPA For Energy Star Homes Program 0
• April 16^th Friday Reading: Slate’s Green Crowdsourcing Experiment Winds Up; Manhattan’s Secret Subway Tunnels 0
• April 15^th Remedies in Review: DBIA’s Sustainable Project Goals Construction Contract Exhibit 7
• April 15^th Deep (Number) Six-ed: Biofuels Replacing Number Six Heating Sludge On UES 0
• April 9^th Friday Reading: New York Times on Implementing Urban Green Council Recommendations; Streetsblog on Walkable Streets 1
• April 8^th New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan: Lighting Upgrade Law (Int. No. 973) 0
• April 8^th Good For The Hartz (Mountain Industries): Jersey Mega-Developer Signs On With EPA 0
• March 24^th Los Angeles, America’s Most Efficient Built Environment. Or, Context Matters. 1
• March 24^th USGBC: No Such Thing as LEED Decertification? 5
• March 23^rd Pier To Pier Counseling: Green Goings On at Brooklyn and Manhattan Piers 1
• March 22^nd Extell Feeling Heat On Upper West Side Mega-Development Riverside Center From… Upper West Siders 1
• March 17^th Mitigating the Increased Risks of Personal Injury Claims on Green Construction Projects 1
• March 10^th New Jersey Building Materials Dealers Association Opposing LEED for Schools Legislation 4
• March 10^th That Smarts: A Bumpy Beginning for Smart Meters in NYC 0
• March 9^th It Takes A Village? Checking In On Slate’s Collective-Intelligence Home Efficiency Experiment 0
• March 5^th Friday Afternoon Read: New York Observer’s Li on “The Eternal Real Estate Challenge” 0
• March 4^th Developer Continues Fight For Net Metering at 360 State Street in New Haven 1
• March 4^th Brand New Colony: Jamestown Properties Commits to Greening Nearly All $4 Billion Worth of Its U.S. Buildings 1
• March 2^nd Brown Canals NYC: Federal Ruling Tasks Bloomberg, Developers With Putting the “Fun” in Superfund in Gowanus 0
• March 1^st Screaming (About) Trees: Daily News Reports Downside of Bloomberg’s MillionTreesNYC 0
• February 26^th Go Hamptons: Southampton Raises Bar To Energy Star-Level On Commercial Buildings 0
• February 25^th Top Green Office Leases in Manhattan: 2009 0
• February 24^th TD Bank Looks To Score With Carbon Neutral Proclamation 0
• February 23^rd Zone Defense: Streetsblog on Greening NYC Zoning 0
• February 19^th RFP Considerations for Tenants Considering Certification Under LEED 2009 for Commercial Interiors 2
• February 18^th Where (Downtown) Brooklyn At: Downtown’s LEED Gold Toren Condos Gets FHA Approval, Critical Love 0
• February 17^th Brooklyn’s 100 Gold Street Condos: Certifiably Green, But Not Certified LEED 0
• February 15^th How Green Was My Cubicle: What To Make Of Green Work Spaces? 0
• February 12^th Charlotte’s First Green Public Building Using Double the Energy Predicted by LEED Model 3
• February 11^th LEED 2009 Creeps Into New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan 4
• February 4^th Show of Force: Urban Green Council/ New York Green Codes Task Force Delivers Report 0
• February 4^th Case Study on Enforcement Mechanisms in Green Leases: New South Wales Police Headquarters Building 4
• February 1^st Number Six Sludge: Now Available in Manhattan’s Greenest Neighborhood, Somehow? 0
• January 28^th The Antitrust Implications of Green Building Legislation (Abstract) 4
• January 27^th Bad Breath(e): New Study Reflects Urgent Need to Green NYC’s Black Smoke 0
• January 26^th Go Downtown: Long Island Index Suggests Denser, Greener Lawn-Gilan 0
• January 22^nd Small Victories: Brooklyn’s Smaller Green Condo Developments Looking Like Success Stories 1
• January 21^st Risk Allocation Provisions Prominent in ConsensusDOCS 310 Green Building Addendum 3
• January 14^th Cool Waves: A Look at Agilewaves’ New Integrated Building Optimization System 0
• January 13^th Finding the Green to Go Green: Is This Green Leasing’s Moment? 0
• January 13^th Appellate Division Grants Preliminary Injunction Based on Project’s “Revolutionary” Green Construction Financing 3
• January 11^th The Halfway Point: Venture Capital Study Predicts Huge Green Retrofit Surge 0
• January 5^th Top 5 Legal Issues in Green Real Estate: 2009 1
• January 4^th …And A Municipal Government Shall Lead Them: Is This 2009′s Most Encouraging Green Building Macro-Trend? 0

2009

• December 22^nd Zeroing In: Redhook Green Is a Zero Energy Building, But What Does That Mean? 0
• December 16^th Wisconsin Residents Appealing LEED Gold Certification of Northland Pines High School 5
• December 10^th Giveaway: USGBC’s Green Office Guide for Integrating LEED Into Your Leasing Process* 16
• December 4^th “The Green Tragedy: LEED’s Lost Decade” Now in Print 0
• November 5^th Atlanta Restauranteurs Resisting Push for Green Building Legislation 1
• October 21^st Winnipeg Developer Requiring Commercial Tenants to Sign Green Lease 0
• October 8^th National Institute of Building Sciences Identifies Risk & Policy Problems Flowing from Green Building Rating Systems 1
• October 6^th Massachusetts Green Buildings Used 40 Percent More Energy Than Predicted 8
• September 29^th That’s Super: Bloomberg, Realty Advisory Board, 32BJ Join Forces to Green City’s Superintendents 0
• September 29^th Model Green Lease Lands in New York City at Urban Green Expo 3
• September 24^th Buffalo, Sun City: Can Solar Power Bloom in Western New York? 0
• September 18^th Jerry Yudelson: “Dereliction” of Duty by Architects & Engineers Who Fail to Advocate for LEED Certification 7
• September 17^th New York State Approves Funding for Affordable LEED Silver Hegeman Residence in Brownsville 0
• September 16^th Hartford’s Hollander Gets Connecticut Capital’s First Green Roof 0
• September 15^th Trenton Makes (Its Case as a Green Hub), The World Takes 0
• September 11^th Is San Francisco Reconsidering Its Green Building Legislation in Light of the LEED Performance Debate? 2
• September 4^th Can USGBC Improve the Performance of LEED Buildings by Collecting More Data? 7
• August 27^th Reactions to Green Building Industry’s First LEED Certification “Guarantee:” Implications for Insurance Coverage & Limitation of Liability Provisions 6
• August 25^th Highland House: New Jersey’s First Gold Rating Under NAHB’s Green Building Program 0
• August 17^th Contractor Leads Attack Against Nashville’s LEED Legislation 5
• August 5^th Energy Performance in LEED Buildings: A History 12
• August 4^th Carbon Offset Firm Inks Sublease at 10 East 40th Street 0
• July 30^th Baltimore Developers Raise Questions About Green Premiums Under New LEED-Driven Legislation 7
• July 23^rd Case Study: A Practical Look at the Risks of Green Roofs 8
• July 20^th 1095 Sixth Avenue Deal Offers Snapshot of Local Green Commercial Market 0
• July 16^th New Marsh Report Offers Construction Industry Feedback on Green Building Risks 4
• July 15^th Green Building Basics for the Healthcare Industry: A Legal Perspective 0
• July 9^th Do Third Parties Have Standing to Initiate LEED 2009 Decertification Proceedings? 8
• July 8^th Leasing Activity Continues at LEED Gold-Certified 7 World Trade Center 0
• June 30^th Section 201 of Waxman-Markey Could Impose Energy Efficiency Mandates as Decried by NAIOP 0
• June 25^th Victor Schinnerer: New LEED AP Program Raising Standards of Care, Changing Risk Profiles 2
• June 16^th Labor Law Issues May Begin to Impact Green Construction 1
• June 11^th Green Leasing Series: Environmental Performance Objective Clauses in Green Leases 2
• June 9^th “Whither the Lawsuits?” A Mid-2009 Assessment of the State of Green Building Litigation 4
• May 28^th Toronto to Mandate Green Roofs for Most New Construction 1
• May 28^th LEED Version 3.0: LEED AP versus LEED GA 0
• May 20^th Indian Restaurant to Battle Boston Properties at 250 West 55th Street 0
• May 15^th Considering Standard of Care Provisions in Green Construction Contracts 5
• May 11^th Mitigating Risks When Building Green Roofs 4
• May 1^st Initial Legal Thoughts on the LEED 2009 Minimum Program Requirements 2
• April 28^th Lessons on Predicting Building Performance from New Yankee Stadium 2
• April 22^nd City Unveils Earth Day Plan for Green Retrofits & Benchmarking 0
• April 22^nd USGBC: Legal Risk in Building Green Is “New Wine in Old Bottles” 6
• April 21^st Green Buildings Top List of First Quarter Leasing Transactions 0
• April 7^th City Unveils Pilot Program to Green Foreclosed Homes 0
• April 7^th RICS Study: No Premium for LEED-Certified Commercial Office Buildings 10
• April 3^rd NAIOP Responds to Critics by Making Case for Incentives to Boost Efficiency in Commercial Office Buildings 0
• March 31^st Current Issues in Green Real Estate Development: Project Location Considerations* 0
• March 27^th Beijing Vantone Finalizes Lease at LEED Gold Hopeful 1 World Trade Center – Freedom Tower 0
• March 26^th Seattle’s KING 5 Calls Washington Green School Claims “Oversold” 0
• March 19^th Real Estate Law Issues for Solar Energy: Introduction to Government Incentives 1
• March 16^th Henry Gifford & USGBC’s Brendan Owens Consider Merits of LEED at NESEA Forum 2
• March 10^th Everyone Loves BIM (Whatever It Is) 2
• March 10^th Green Building Industry Apoplectic Over NAIOP Commercial Energy Efficiency Study 7
• March 5^th Long Island Power Authority to Seek Stimulus Dollars for 50 Megawatts of Green Power 1
• March 3^rd Introduction to the Stimulus Package: Green Building and the Stimulus (Part I) 0
• February 19^th SB 1473: El Dorado County Fighting California Green Building Legislation 0
• February 18^th Top Green Commercial Office Leases in Manhattan by Square Footage: 2008 0
• February 17^th Green Leasing Series: The Legal Risks of a Green Lease 1
• February 16^th Fish-texting, Nairobi, and Wikipedia: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Looks to the Future 0
• February 11^th NYSERDA Tests High-Rise Wind Power Installation at Corning Tower in Albany 0
• February 10^th CoStar, Owner’s Counsel Addressing Liability Aspects of Marketing Green Buildings 6
• February 6^th Green Leasing Series: Introduction to Green Leasing 1
• February 4^th Green Building Litigation in East Hampton Over Design for 132 North Main Street 4
• February 3^rd Middlesex Intermodal Center: Industrial Buildings Slowly Implementing Green Design 1
• February 3^rd USGBC New York Sponsors Discussion on Sustainable Design in Universities 0
• January 29^th Green Building Initiative Offering February Existing Buildings Webinar Series 0
• January 29^th Green Construction Claims Demonstrate Need for Design Professional Due Diligence 10
• January 29^th Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund Makes First New York City Acquisition 1
• January 28^th Wells Fargo “Attracted” to LEED-EB Silver Efforts at 100 Park Avenue 4
• January 26^th New Jersey’s First LEED-Certified Restaurant to Land in Ridgewood 1
• January 23^rd The Legal Issues of Green Real Estate Finance 1
• January 22^nd New York City’s First Net Metered Commercial Solar Array is America’s Biggest 0
• January 20^th LEED Goes to School: Considering Green Design in the Architecture Classroom 2
• January 14^th Bailout Provides Significant Expansion & Extension of Business Energy Tax Credit 0
• January 12^th New Law in California Links Transportation Funding to Smart Growth* 0
• January 12^th Shaw Development, LLC Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection Comments Off
• January 7^th Green Building Litigation Notable Omission From CoStar’s Top 10 Green Building News Stories of 2008 2
• January 5^th gbNYC’s Top 5 Stories in Green Building: 2008 1

2008

• December 30^th East Hampton Architectural Review Board Approves Bates Masi’s 132 North Main Street 2
• December 22^nd Green Building Liability Piques Interest of Residential Sector 1
• December 17^th Surety Industry Continues to Critique Performance Bond Requirements of D.C. Green Building Act 0
• December 17^th Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction Extended Through 2013 2
• December 10^th Understanding the Business of Green: Special Focus Issue from the Counselors of Real Estate 0
• December 9^th Green Building Liability Pictorial 0
• December 8^th What is Green Real Estate Law? 0
• November 24^th ML: 132 North Main Street: Modern Green Controversy in East Hampton 3
• November 23^rd The Ugly, the Bad, & the Good: Thoughts on Greenbuild 2008 3
• November 15^th Shaw Development v. Southern Builders: America’s First Green Building Litigation 1
• November 10^th Paul D’Arelli Calls San Francisco Green Building Ordinance “LEED on Acid” 0
• October 31^st The Role of Risk Management at Greenbuild versus West Coast Green 3
• October 29^th AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque Litigation Demonstrates Dangers of Green Building Legislation 0
• October 29^th Professional Liability Insurance Policy Endorsement for LEED Projects May be Imminent 4
• October 28^th New Jersey Legislators to Consider Green Building Incentives 0
• October 28^th Insurers Noting Increased Risks From Green Roof Installations 0
• October 23^rd Redevelopers Beware – San Francisco’s Green Building Ordinance is LEED® on Acid* 1
• October 20^th Panel to Tackle Preserving & Greening Industrial Buildings at Municipal Art Society 0
• October 16^th element Ewing: Green Hospitality, Franchise Law in Trenton, New Jersey 1
• October 8^th District Court Judge Grants Injunction Barring Enforcement of Albuquerque Green Building Code; Legislators “Unaware” of Preemptive Federal Statutes 1
• October 6^th Connecticut Construction Industry: Clarify Purview of Proposed Green Building Legislation 0
• October 1^st West Coast Green Panel Discusses Risk Management for Green Building Projects 0
• September 25^th An Open Letter to USGBC Requesting Data on Certified Wood 0
• September 18^th More Green Building Legislation May be Imminent for Garden State 1
• September 17^th Green LITES: NYSDOT Introduces Sustainable Transportation Design Program 0
• September 15^th Ardour Capital: Revenues Swell at Green Investment Bank 1
• September 11^th Marsh Report: At Least One Professional Liability Insurer is Considering a LEED Project Coverage Endorsement 0
• September 10^th Industry Protests Against Southampton Solar-Powered Pool and The pool Cleaning Service Legislation 0
• September 8^th Red-Hot Green Roofs a Hidden Green Building Risk for Owners and Insurers? 2
• August 28^th Green Building Statistics: Demand is High, Design Experience is Low 2
• August 20^th Shaw Development v. Southern Builders: The Anatomy of America’s First Green Building Litigation 18
• August 13^th Hoboken Sustainability Primer: From Green Buildings to Clean Power 1
• August 12^th Chautauqua Wind Energy to Capture Green Power Upstate 1
• August 1^st Sales Tax Exemption Proposed for Garden State Green Building Products 1
• July 31^st City Council’s Infrastructure Task Force Debates Solar Power Installations 0
• July 29^th Midtown Midsummer Green Lease Update 0
• July 29^th Thoughts on “Sustainable Urbanism” from Douglas Farr: LEED is Not Enough 1
• July 25^th Your Luxury Amenities May Be Trying to Kill You 4
• July 21^st Cabbies Concerned Over Bloomberg Bid to Turn Fleet Hybrid 0
• July 15^th Industry Groups Launch Legal Challenge to Albuquerque Green Building Codes 0
• July 10^th New York Energy Smart Loan Fund Offers Incentives for Energy Efficiency Across Empire State 0
• July 1^st Huntington (LI) LEED Legislation Offers Incentives for Developers to Go Green 0
• June 25^th Albany Reaches Agreement on Amendments to Brownfield Cleanup Program Act 0
• June 19^th The Liability of Building Green: GBI & ED+C to Sponsor Summer-Long Webinar Series 0
• June 16^th Exhibition Profiling Neil Denari’s HL23 Opens at Museum of the City of New York 0
• June 9^th Head of Green Building Finance Consortium Offers Critique of Recent CoStar Study 0
• June 4^th Port Authority Close to Freedom Tower’s First Private Lease with Chinese Real Estate Co. 2
• May 30^th Students Protest Lack of LEED in Design for CT Campus Building 2
• May 29^th Navy Yard’s Perry Building to Feature Renewable Energy Pilot Program 0
• May 27^th Gore Finalizes 5500 s/f Lease at Bank of America Tower 1
• May 19^th Fresh Kills: A Beacon of Renewable Energy 1
• May 16^th What Will LEED v3 Mean for Green Building Legislation? 1
• May 14^th Gotham Eateries Go Green, Industry Strives for Sustainable Standards 0
• May 7^th Green Building Initiative Joins Chase for High-Performance Building Standard 1
• May 6^th Governor Paterson Looks to Turn New York State Greener 0
• April 25^th Brooklyn Named to List of Top 10 Green Roof Cities 3
• April 11^th $105M Solar Loan Program Approved in Garden State 1
• April 8^th A Greener Suburban Sprawl? 0
• April 3^rd Carbon Neutral Nets Can’t Offset Fan Skepticism 0
• April 3^rd Forum Launches for Preservation Efforts Across New York City 2
• April 1^st New PAC to Recycle Local, Lazy Politicians 0
• March 28^th Big Box Stores Jump on the Green Bandwagon 0
• March 28^th 2008 Vintage of Microturbines Now Operating on Lafayette Street 0
• March 18^th Green Building in Crisis? Bear Stearns Meltdown May Drown Beer Belly Building 2
• March 13^th Silverstein, Port Authority Escalating Green Efforts at Ground Zero 0
• March 11^th Installation of City’s First Microturbines Under New Code Completed in Battery Park City 0
• March 5^th The Lower East Side: NYC’s Emerging Green Retail District? 0
• March 4^th Denari’s HL23 to Purchase 100 Percent Green Power 0
• February 28^th Top Green Office Leases in Manhattan by Square Footage: 2007 1
• February 26^th Green Commercial Office Space in New York City Currently Ranks Third in U.S. 0
• February 19^th Green Construction Law: As Legislation Proliferates and Insurance Issues Emerge, Is Green Building’s Future Being Compromised? 0
• February 15^th Green Globes Legislation Grows in Garden State: Will Proposed Tax Credit Act Follow? 0
• February 12^th NYC: America’s 20th Greenest City? 0
• February 6^th Green Realty Trust: Nation’s First Green REIT is on the Horizon 6
• February 5^th Lack of Life Cycle Assessment Continues to Plague Green Building Rating Systems 0
• February 4^th DEP Promises to Clean Up Contaminated Newtown Creek on Queens/Brooklyn Border 0
• January 28^th Managing Risk in Sustainable Building Conference Set for February 7-8 in Chicago 2
• January 25^th Deadline Approaching on Congestion Pricing Recommendation 0
• January 24^th Green Power Developer Sets Pace for New York Venture Capital in 2007 0
• January 23^rd Taking a Hard Look at the New LEED for Neighborhood Development Standard 3
• January 22^nd City Council’s Environmental Protection Committee to Review Bioheat Act of 2007 on Thursday 2
• January 22^nd ProLogis: The Sustainable Warehouse Construction Initiative 0
• January 18^th Staten Island’s Markham Gardens: Top Ten Eco-Friendly Neighborhood? 0
• January 17^th Eco-Patent Commons: Fertile Ground for Future Green Building Technologies? 0
• January 17^th The First LEED Platinum Residential High-Rise: Battery Park City’s Verdesian 0
• January 15^th Color it Green: The 25 Largest Blocks of Available Manhattan Office Space 1
• January 10^th The State of Sustainable Building: Ten Notable Green Quotables 2
• January 8^th Community Calls on the MTA to Require Sustainable Development at the West Side Rail Yards 0
• January 4^th The Top 10 News Stories in Green Real Estate from 2007 1
• January 3^rd Greensburg, Kansas to Rebuild Public Buildings at LEED Platinum in Aftermath of May Tornado 2

2007

• December 27^th LEED Gold Office Space Flying Off Shelf at 7 WTC 0
• December 21^st Streetscape Improvement Project Seeks to Energize, Green Downtown Newark (NJ) 0
• December 20^th San Francisco’s Proposed Green Building Legislation: Progressive or Plain LEED Creep? 1
• December 18^th The Top 5 Green A/E/C Firms (by Number, Percentage of LEED-APs) 0
• December 11^th Green Insurance Law: Industry Thoughts on BIM and LEED Coverage for Design Professionals 0
• December 4^th Green Business Law: Brooklyn Moving Company 1
• November 29^th Pittsburgh Approves Green Density Bonuses, Will Consider LEED Mandate for Public and TIF Projects 0
• November 28^th Green Franchising: Subway Opens Eco-Store, Reviews Product Sourcing 0
• November 21^st CB Richard Ellis to Enroll 100 Buildings in LEED-EB Through Portfolio Program 0
• November 21^st Green Business Law: PNC Registers “Green Branch” with Trademark Office 1
• November 20^th Retail Sector Continues March Towards Sustainability 0
• November 15^th Patriots to Purchase Green Power for Gillette Stadium 3
• November 14^th Gore Scores 48th Floor at Bank of America Tower 1
• November 13^th Stop & Shop Selected as Sole Supermarket Participant in LEED Portfolio Pilot Program 0
• November 8^th USGBC’s Greenbuild Conference Underway in Chicago 0
• November 1^st The Top 5 Legal Issues to Consider on Green Construction Projects 8
• October 30^th Green Insurance: Number of Climate Change-Related Products Doubles in 2007 0
• October 26^th BD+C Releases Fifth Annual Green Building White Paper 0
• October 24^th Gang Green Goes Green: New York Jets Announce Naming Rights Agreement for LEED-Certified Florham Park Training Facility 0
• October 19^th NAHB to Congress: Keep Dangling Green Building Carrots, Don’t Wave Sticks 1
• October 19^th Green Retail Development a Hot Topic at ICSC Fall Conference 0
• October 18^th Schwarzenegger Vetoes California Green Building Legislation 2
• October 18^th “White Hot” 2007-09 NYC Construction Forecast Bodes Well for Green Building 0
• October 16^th Manhattan Commercial Green Building Survey with Spotlight on Green Rehabs 0
• October 15^th Value is Key as Insurance Industry Continues to Grapple with Green Building Standards 1
• October 11^th Surety Industry Raises Red Flags Over D.C. Green Building Act 1
• October 10^th Trenton Aims to Grow Green Business Sector by Launching Public/Private Green Initiative 0
• October 9^th ASLA Announces Sustainable Sites Initiative 1
• October 2^nd LEED-AP Designation Not Just for A/E/C 9
• September 27^th Trio of CA Green Building Bills Await Arnold’s Action by Oct. 12 0
• September 25^th Hotel Industry Continues to Struggle in Defining Sustainable Standards 0
• September 20^th Nuclear Power as Green Power? Debate Will Heat Up as U.S. Eases Permitting Process 0
• September 19^th More Green Building Legislation Including Green Globes as Option 0
• September 18^th HUD’s Mark-to-Market Green Initiative Pilot Program to Monitor, Collect Data on Green Building Performance 2
• September 14^th LIPA About to Level Major Blow on Clean Energy in New York 0
• September 10^th Green Building Legislative Compromises Could Help Ease Concerns over LEED Creep 0
• September 7^th Green Building Imperatives: Retrofitting, Awareness, Performance 0
• September 5^th DASNY to Require LEED Silver Beginning in 2008 0
• September 4^th Nation’s Fourth-Largest Solar Power Plant to Break Ground in Falls Township, PA 3
• August 24^th World Expo 2008: Digital Water Pavilion 0
• August 22^nd Wastewater Treatment at the Solaire & Proposed NYC Incentives for Water Conservation 0
• August 21^st The Subprime Lending Meltdown: What Does It Mean for Green Building Part II? 0
• August 20^th 11 Times Square and the Subprime Lending Meltdown- What Does it Mean for Green Building? 0
• August 8^th Is LEED Legislation- Whether Public or Private- Undemocratic? 0
• August 7^th Revisions to Wicks Law Stall; Albany Vows to Push Forward 3
• July 31^st AIA’s DesignDC ’07: Leading Design* 0
• July 27^th Second Long Island County on Verge of Mandating LEED for Public Projects 0
• July 25^th List of Green Building “Firsts” Emphasizes Need for LEED V3 2
• July 20^th Definition of Sustainable Building Must Encompass Urban Infrastructure 3
• July 19^th Green Roofs, Cool Cities: Apple’s Green Roofs Take Shape in Queens 0
• July 12^th LEED Creep: Gaia Napa Valley Hotel Receives Gold Rating from USGBC 1
• July 11^th McGraw-Hill: Healthcare Sector Lags in Green Building Practices 2
• July 6^th Industrial Property Owners Push for LEED Credit Recognition 0
• June 29^th Proposed Standard 189P: Design of High-Performance Green Buildings 0
• June 27^th Colorado County Considers Hybrid Green Building Standard / Square Footage Restriction Amendment to Land Use Code 2
• June 26^th Green Buildings Driving Midtown Rents to Unprecedented Heights 0
• June 22^nd South Carolina Legislators Override Governor’s LEED Veto 0
• June 19^th Green Business Law: Need for Green Counsel Becoming Increasingly Salient as Green Claims are Brought Against Design Professionals 2
• June 15^th Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion to Participate in LEED-ND Pilot Program 3
• June 14^th Bull Ridge 1: First Spec Warehouse to Seek LEED-CS Rating 0
• June 12^th Integrated Green Design: Sasaki Associates’ Urban District for Beijing Games 1
• June 6^th Green Business Law: Trademark Protection for Certification Systems Under the Lanham Act 3
• June 1^st HSBC Announces $100M Partnership to Measure, Address Global Climate Change 1
• May 31^st Radiant City: A Documentary About Suburban Sprawl 2
• May 29^th Interviewed by Urban Land, Jaime Lerner Offers Five Commandments of Sustainability 1
• May 29^th Nevada Assembly Passes Compromise Green Building Tax Bill 0
• May 23^rd DRI Announces Subsidiary Offering Turnkey Solar Roofing Services 0
• May 17^th Congress Hears Industry Testimony on Green Building 0
• May 16^th Nevada Governor Vetoes Bill Suspending Green Property Tax Abatement Program 0
• May 10^th Thoughts from Insurance Industry on Green Building Risks: Contract Language Remains Key 2
• May 9^th Greening of Corporate America: McGraw-Hill Polls Execs on Green Building 0
• May 4^th Green Building Incentives Just a Mirage? Nevada Suspends Property Tax Abatement Program 1
• April 17^th Green Retail, Building Now Weekly Staples in Crain’s 1
• April 12^th Private Green Building Mandate Debate Surfaces in Palo Alto 0
• April 6^th The Next American City Devotes Latest Issue to Green Building 3
• April 5^th UN to Offer Briefing on New E-Waste Initiative 0
• April 2^nd Monday LEEDoff: Nevada Weighs Adding Green Globes to 2005 LEED Legislation and Prompts Debate in State Assembly 0
• March 29^th Green Globes Now Free for GBI Members; Will USGBC Respond? 4
• March 28^th Crain’s Offers Glimpse at City’s Proposed PlaNYC 2030 Energy Mandates 1
• March 21^st New York City Department of Education and School Construction Authority Unveil NYC Green Schools Guide and Rating System 0
• March 16^th NYC’s Affordable Housing Developers May Face Renewed Battle Over Green Building Mandate 0
• March 13^th gbNYC Editorial: Going Green? New York State Should Repeal the Wicks Law 1
• March 8^th ULI New York Presents “Transportation Transformed” Panel 0
• March 5^th Benefits Of A Green Home 2
• February 27^th Despite Market Downturn, Resilient Green Materials Sector May Owe Its Strength to Expensive Oil 0
• February 16^th American Bar Association to Offer Green Building CLE 1
• February 12^th Back to Boston: Revisting Beantown’s Green Building Legislation 0
• February 9^th New Resource Bank Targets Green Development With Construction Loan Discounts 0
• February 8^th “Making Green Building a Mainstream Practice” Conference Offers Thoughts from Developers on LEED 2
• February 6^th Building Information Modeling- BIM: Contractual Risks are Changing with Technology* 0
• February 1^st California Proposes Ban on Incandescent Light Bulbs 0
• January 30^th Crain’s: NYC Developers Remain Unconvinced of Green Building Economics 0
• January 26^th NYC-Based Industrial Owner Pantheon Will Green Its Portfolio 0
• January 26^th Green Building Consultant Jerry Yudelson Peers Into 2007 Green Building Crystal Ball 1
• January 22^nd LEED Silver for Bronx Library Center & Local Law 86 Primer 1
• January 18^th Twins, HOK, and USGBC Look to Extend LEED to Stadiums 1
• January 17^th New York’s Cleantechs Aren’t Cleaning Up 0
• January 11^th Venture Capital Flowing to Green Building Materials Sector 2
• January 9^th Nashville Considers Green Building Legislation for Public Projects 0
• January 6^th From the Botanical Garden to Silvercup Studios: Going Green in the Borough of Queens 0

2006

• December 27^th Smaller Cities Adopt, Consider Green Building Standards 0
• December 22^nd Thom Mayne’s Green Design Will Drive Redevelopment of Parisian Business District 0
• December 21^st Boston Will Mandate Green Building- Public and Private- But Opts to Pass on LEED 8
• December 20^th Green Sports Consulting Firm Hopes to Turn Reds, Browns, and Blues to “Greens” 1
• December 19^th Napa Valley Hotel Demonstrates Dangers to Developers Posed by LEED Creep 5
• December 14^th NY Power Authority Lobbies for NYC Energy Legislation 0
• December 12^th BIM Treatise for Contractors Released 1
• December 12^th BD+C White Paper Chapter 4: Selling Green to Retail Markets 0
• December 10^th BD+C Webcast Compares Energy Star, LEED, and Green Globes Rating Systems 0
• December 7^th Thursday’s BD+C Webcast 0
• December 5^th BD+C White Paper: Chapter 3, Financing Green Office Buildings 2
• December 4^th China’s First LEED-CI Certification in Shanghai 0
• November 28^th BD+C Green Building White Paper Acknowledges Potential Green Liability Issues 3
• November 28^th More on Trees in LA: The Million Trees Initiative 0
• November 27^th L.A. Prepares to Bid Palm Tree Adieu 0
• November 23^rd GSA to Require BIM for Select Projects 0
• November 20^th Thoughts on the Autodesk/USGBC Partnership 2
• November 11^th Bronx Borough President Calls for Green Building Tax Breaks 0
• November 9^th Fireman’s Fund Introduces Green Building Policy Package 1
• November 7^th Sustainability a “Common Theme” at City of the Future Competition 0
• October 29^th Crain’s Chicago Business Devotes Focus Section to Green Building 0
• October 24^th Starwood Capital Group to Create Green Luxury Hotel Brand 0
• October 9^th NYC-Based Green Consulting Firm Emphasizes Financial Benefits of Green Building 0
• October 3^rd Ideas on How to Recognize Design Excellence Within LEED 0