Unequal Impact: Putting Justice at the Heart of the Climate Fight

Beverly Wright has been at the forefront of the environmental justice movement for more than 30 years, both as head of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice in New Orleans — where she has undertaken groundbreaking research into the disproportionate environmental threats facing Black neighborhoods — and as an advocate, having worked in the 1990s on the first federal executive order dealing with environmental justice.

People Powered: Building Up America’s Cleaner, Brighter Future

Offices. Apartments. Schools. Homes. These buildings—and more—are where Americans live, work, play, and learn.  

Yet every year, buildings contribute roughly 35% of our country’s climate-altering carbon emissions—which means the solution to climate change runs right through America’s building stock.  

After Pandemic, Property Management’s Biggest Challenge Lies Ahead

If you think property management is boring, you must’ve missed the past two years. With or without workers in the office, property staff has been diligently maintaining and even improving the buildings they work in. Meeting the challenges of operating commercial buildings amid a pandemic has taught the facility management industry valuable lessons it hopes to carry into the future. How buildings function is becoming as important as how they look, putting facility management staff in the spotlight.

New California Affordable Housing Bills Proposed in Sacramento

Two bills addressing affordable housing in California have landed in Sacramento. Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) has introduced two bills, AB 2006 and AB 2063, that focus on the barriers to the production of affordable housing – and how to address that issue.

These bills support the state’s goals to provide more affordable housing opportunities for Californians.

Reality Check: The Green Inflation Myth

The latest myth of the energy transition is that green technologies are driving inflation because they are expensive and rising in price. Some fossil fuel advocates argue that renewable technology costs have stopped falling, and the costs of installing them can only add to our energy bills. Surely, the myth claims, it would be better to pause this green rollout for a few years, buy more fossil fuels, and help to reduce inflation.