Sentences with phrase «green building policy»

The Administration Bulletin states in part: «The Green Buildings Policy for Rezoning allows the Passive House standard (also referred to interchangeably as Passiv Haus) to be used as an equivalent method to the LEED / ASHRAE requirements to achieve and measure a high standard of building performance.

See the document, Vancouver Green Buildings Policy for Rezoning.

And on June 8th, 2015, Vancouver made the Passive House standard an alternative option to LEED standards in addressing the Green Buildings Policy for Rezoning.

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«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

Proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework are a missed opportunity for green buildings, argues UKGBC's John Alker

In response to the Government's consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the Chartered Institute of Building has called on the Government to provide greater clarity for Local Authorities to understand what «Green» credentials they are being measured against.

All government buildings should be an exemplar of its policy to be the greenest government ever.

At 8 a.m., NYLCVEF, Enterprise Community Partners and NYU's Wagner School host a policy forum on greening affordable housing in New York City, The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor, Manhattan.

It was a pretty smart piece of policy, albeit that you're never going to solve the housing crisis without massive liberalisation of planning laws and building on the green belt (which I still think could be a huge vote - winner for Labour).

Tracey was also a prime sponsor of legislation that required new county construction be built to a LEED silver standard, the Neighbor Notification Law regarding pesticide application, the Sustainable Energy Loan Program, and the county's Green Fleet Policy.

In his speech at an event hosted by Policy Exchange today, Wednesday 22nd February, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called on the government to be bold and create another «Victorian» era of building, this time of green technology.

Warner is all for transparency, but being a chemist himself, he knows how his colleagues think, and he's concerned that if green chemistry becomes mandatory, industrial chemists will misunderstand it, writing it off as a policy - wonk proposal when in fact it is solid science, built on the core principles of traditional chemistry.

Half of the housing units included in the study had been built using green building standards and policies and the other half were conventionally constructed.

In a «Policy Note» from the Washington Policy Foundation, Todd Myers criticized «green» building standards proposed in Spokane, WA, claiming that buildings made to LEED certification standards are «costing more to build and actually increasing energy use.

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Instead of building its own schools, Green Dot's model involves taking control of pre-existing schools, and implementing their own policies and practices.

«Reforming regulations to encourage new building won't be easy, but city governments have policy levers at their disposal to help alleviate housing affordability problems in Canada's major cities,» Green said.

He is the author of many books on social policy, landscape and architecture and was a member of the UK government's Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Certainly the Green Building Council and some other certification groups are helping in that direction, but they do not, for instance, set policy, do urban planning, or, as sometimes appears to be a problem in the small city I live in and elsewhere, keep the City Council from overriding their own City Plan when it is in the Council's own interest.

That's very good news for the careers of all those politicians building their policies on AR - 4 and very good news for the greens and the green industrial complex that boarded the AGW train for a once in a life time ride.

The goal of this analysis is to identify leading policy trends, share best practices, and suggest technical, procedural, and policy options that can further increase the incorporation of green building procedures into affordable housing developments.

Prior to coming to Synapse, Jenny worked as deputy editor of Singapore - based eco-business.com, where she managed online content and wrote news articles about Asian and global sustainability issues including energy, carbon policy, corporate social responsibility, clean technology, green buildings, water and waste management and livable cities.

Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal - fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its «green» and «climate protection» policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.

policy all the new buildings have included green features, notably fitting turbines of the vertical rotor type on all the roofs.

If you want your work to be green, you'll find all kinds of green jobs here, from renewable energy jobs to green building jobs, organic industry jobs, policy, planning and scientific jobs that restore our natural resources.

He funded policy research projects that led to the Green Building National Action Plan, the revision of national residential and commercial building energy standards, the revision of national green building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards and laGreen Building National Action Plan, the revision of national residential and commercial building energy standards, the revision of national green building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards andBuilding National Action Plan, the revision of national residential and commercial building energy standards, the revision of national green building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards andbuilding energy standards, the revision of national green building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards and lagreen building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards andbuilding standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards and labels.

Global Green USA works in partnership with public agencies, communities, design innovators, and other nonprofits to create innovative and replicable policies, programs and procedures that make sustainability the standard during the planning, design, construction and operation of a built environment.

We are issuing a challenge to New York policy makers, developers, designers and building owners to contribute to the goal of 1 billion square feet of green roofs installed in North America by 2022 — that amounts to just over 3 million square feet installed each year!»

So making buildings more energy - efficient could have a significant impact on energy policy, notes Rebecca Flora of the Green Building Alliance, a group that promotes sustainable architecture.

Developing a green economy requires Governments to refocus their policies, investments and spending in high - impact sectors, such as energy, buildings, manufacturing, transportation, water services and waste management, while ensuring such others as agriculture, fisheries and forests are more sustainable.

The damage being done to 3rd World countries lies in food costs not insignificantly contributed to by green / UN policies of burning of food grain for fuel, by withholding funds (World Bank, EU, etc.) for building of cheap fossil fueled power to these countries, and other ways denying this vulnerable sector the potential to industrialize.

Obama's call to improve the energy efficiency of federal buildings and 2 million American homes fits in with one of the green priorities of Steven Chu, Obama's nominee for Energy Secretary (see Obama Names Energy and Environment Leaders and Obama Creates an Energy Policy Troika).

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the SGreen Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sgreen jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

Topics covered: energy, green building, transportation, waste solutions, connectivity, policy and more.

The Administrator shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Director of Commercial High - Performance Green Buildings, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for nonresidential bBuildings, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for nonresidential buildingsbuildings.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Our task as advocates is to inspire policy officials, utilities, community leaders and decision makers to replace regulatory barriers with leadership and implement policy initiatives that make it easier, rather than harder, for truly green building.

The WorldGBC is working locally with our GBC network to define and deploy best practice green buildings, help governments shape policy and build a culture of cross-sector collaboration.

These will be an important reference for city staff and policy makers, along with developers from any location, to instantly know what the green building state of play is in that city — and to be able to make comparisons with other cities.

It's the realization of the effects of «green» policies — which translates to build absolutely nothing anywnhere near anybody.

Charles Feinstein EAP Sector Manager, Energy and Water PSLO Seminar November 6, 2013 Agenda Focal areas Institutional capacity building and policy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supportingpolicy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) SupportingPolicy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supporting T&D /

Yet the many contributions of green infrastructure to our natural and built environments, as well as to human health, are not fully reflected in public policies pertaining to buildings, design practice, community planning or capital and operational investments in infrastructure.

If the response to our online petition asking LEED to open up its forest certification credit to all credible certification programs is any measure — Built Green's inclusive certification policy will also make it attractive to builders.

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Proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework are a missed opportunity for green buildings, argues UKGBC's John Alker

USGBC works toward its mission of market transformation through its LEED ® green building program, robust educational offerings, a nationwide network of chapters and affiliates, the annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, and advocacy in support of public policy that encourages and enables green buildings and communities.

The way this particular Passivhaus was built also presents British Columbia policy makers with a trail map to the future of green building — and points the way to new opportunities for the struggling B.C. wood products industry.

This policy document presents UNEP's past, present and future activities in the area of climate change and shows how the Programme is building partnerships with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector and other United Nations entities to foster a Green Economy.