Develop a Green Building Program to Facilitate the Construction of Sustainable Buildings
Mandate Building Standards to Increase Efficiency
Implement Retrofit Programs to Improve Energy Efficiency in Municipal & Private Buildings
Provide Rebates & Subsidies for the Implementation of Green Innovation e.g. Solar Panels
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Urban planners say house and backyard dream should fade
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2859397.htm
Many housing experts want greater emphasis on high density urban living.
Rain, even urine, would help make Bullitt HQ city’s ‘greenest building ever’
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011354845_bullitt16.html
The Bullitt Foundation plans to build Seattle’s greenest building ever, a six-story structure generating as much electricity as it consumes and relying almost exclusively on rain for its water.
The Greenest Library in New York Opens Today
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/18/greenest-library-in-new-york-opens-today/
The Battery Park Library finally opens today and it just so happens to be the greenest library branch of the New York Public Library system.
In pictures: The Strata ‘Razor’ tower: the cutting-edge of eco-construction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/mar/15/strata-tower-razor
The ‘Razor’ is an environmentally innovative new tower block in Elephant and Castle, south London, that will boast three wind turbines. Take a ride to the top with these exclusive pictures.
Seeing the Investor Value in Being Green
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/realestate/03jamestown.html
Constructing or renovating a building to make it environmentally sustainable can be a daunting task for any owner, but Jamestown Properties, a German commercial real estate investment company, has decided it will go “green” in nearly its entire $4 billion portfolio of buildings, all located in the United States.
Eco-Friendly in California?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/opinion/l25eco.html
It’s great to build eco-friendly houses, but you have to put them in eco-friendly locations. The construction site in question is within one of the most scenic coastal mountain areas in California.
Olympic Athlete’s Village: Greenest Neighbourhood in the World
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/17/olympic-athletes-village-greenest-neighborhood-in-the-world/
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics has yet another feather to add to their cap – they now have the greenest neighborhood in the world.
Charge your car and check your toaster on smart grid
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/charge-your-car-and-check-your-toaster-on-smart-grid-20100217-odze.html
A SECRET EnergyAustralia plan, backed by the NSW government, would transform large sections of the state’s power grid so electric cars could plug into home power points and households could monitor the greenhouse gas output of individual appliances.
Public supports ambitious scheme for micro-scale renewable energy: poll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/27/feed-in-tariffs-renewable-energy
Campaigners urge government to seize opportunity to turn homes into ‘green power stations’ with feed-in tariffs
High rise living the way of the future
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2801915.htm