Why your lease can drive climate and social action
Switching to a green lease or performance-based lease advances ESG sustainability goals and can advance social responsibility goals related to equity and inclusion.
Switching to a green lease or performance-based lease advances ESG sustainability goals and can advance social responsibility goals related to equity and inclusion.
Building Performance Standards are a powerful tool to improve energy efficiency and building performance, and they can advance community-centered, inclusive, equitable policymaking.
Alex Dews and Cliff Majersik offer their take on how the Inflation Reduction Act will affect climate change, equity, and environmental justice
Building performance policies can play a big role in carbon reduction, but to be equitable, they must also address housing affordability.
Building performance policies can play a big role in carbon reduction, but these policies should also address equitable climate adaptation solutions.
Audi Banny pulls out three key themes from the 2022 Green Lease Leader awards.
An equitable transition to clean power requires utilities to prioritize input from community stakeholders. Too often, frontline communities and advocates are dissuaded from participating in critical decisions by virtue of the opaque, technical process. With coordinated assistance and capacity-building support from local organizations, there are opportunities for stakeholders to intervene and demand private companies incorporate community feedback.
Cliff Majersik analyzes building performance policies in Maryland and Montgomery County
Each of us has a role to play in making buildings sustainable, equitable, and resilient.
The Green Lease Leaders program offers a new type of lease addressing social as well as environmental impact and climate change.