John Knott and Andrew Nelson Show RPI in Action
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Greetings from the Miami International Airport Island Grill, which — given my options — is currently rocketing up my three item list of decent airport food!
I had the opportunity to attend a great talk by John Knott, of the Noisette Company, here at the ULI Fall Meeting. Hearing him reminded me that there are a couple of great reports currently in circulation that Green Journey readers should be reading, if you haven’t already obtained them through your other channels. They are must reads for all of us who want to use responsible property investing — incorporating applied approaches to social responsibility within our professional real estate activities.
Item 1: The Noisette Company Sustainability Report
John Knott and his company’s work with the Navy Yards Project is a great living case study in revitalization with social justice at its core. Another cool point to keep in mind as you read is that the Noisette Company is a 100 year old family development business. Knott made it clear that the sustainable and socially conscious principles that they apply are not anything new-fangled or exotic, as many investors fear about sustainable real estate. The approaches are actually as old school as they come.
Item 2: RREEF Research Report: Globalization and Global Trends in Green Real Estate Investment
All of my USGBC-NCC colleagues out there remember the great talk RREEF’s Andrew Nelson gave about global greening trends at our chapter meeting earlier this month. Well, that upcoming report he alluded to is now finally out and official. Download / read / apply / pass it along.
Green Building Finance and Investment Forum New York
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The Green Building Finance & Investment Forum is where industry pacesetters advance sustainability via their innovations and best practice in energy efficiency, green real estate development, investment, finance and operations. Twice a year, approximately 150 leading green real estate investors, financiers and practitioners come together for an intense 2-1/2 days of workshops, presentations, frank discussions and, of course, dealmaking.
The participants, all senior professionals from high-caliber firms, set the bar high. And the presenters, their equally demanding peers, never fail to deliver hard content and inspire. The result is a productive, memorable experience that we humbly call “the TED of green real estate”.
Galley Eco Capital, in collaboration with InfoCast, is a founding co-organizer of this highly unique event. On the heels of a very successful New York meeting in September ‘08, we decided, together with our friends at Building Energy Performance News, to publish the summary perspectives of the industry pacesetters that are making sustainability a successful, viable investment strategy for the real estate community.
The summaries of the forum topics and individual perspectives will be published here in a series of ten posts on a weekly basis. Here is an advance peek at the lineup (note: if a post is linked, then it has already been published – click on the link to go directly to the post).
- Lessons for Future-Proofing Property Values
- Unlock Hidden Cash Flow and Value with Energy Efficiency Retrofits
- JP Morgan Chase Talks Green Real Estate Investing
- Portfolio Owners Top Advice for Greening Existing Buildings
- Green Building Drives Triple Bottom Line Advantages
- Starting a Green Real Estate Fund?
- Valuation & Risk in High Performance / LEED Commercial Real Estate
- Green Leases: An Important Component of a Green Real Estate Investment Strategy
- Perspectives on Assessing & Financing Portfolios for Energy Retrofits
- Green Finance: Current Trends, Future Outlook
- Carbon Risk Management: What It Means for Real Estate Portfolios
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Our special thanks to Building Energy Performance News for helping us to spread the word about this special event and its participants, as well as to InfoCast, which has been an innovative partner in creating and advancing this particular meeting for the green real estate community.
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