Berkeley City Council approved a $53 million investment in building housing around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations to ameliorate the city’s long-standing affordable housing crisis. “Berkeley is really leading in this and is going to be a model for the rest of the region,” Saltzman said. “We need the rest to invest this much money in affordable housing.”
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Attitudes and behaviours changed: Kiwis by and large accept single-use plastic bag ban.
Save the date for the fifth biennial workshop for leaders of sustainability research centres, June 24-26, 2020, in Vienna, Austria.
AirAsia on Tuesday said it joins calls from business groups and local government units (LGU) to allow leisure travel subject to strict “bubble tourism” for island destinations, such as Panglao and Boracay.
Bangkok artist and social activist Wishulada Panthanuvong is no stranger to trash. In fact, she embraces it and uses it as a medium to create sustainable beauty.
Crew Management: Class Schedule: SELF PACED COURSE ONLINE; 4 hours total Register Online through September 30, 2020 The International Facility Management Association’s Facility Management Professional (FMP) credential is an assessment-based program…
Europe’s sustainable finance market experienced “rapid” growth during the first half of 2019, despite a challenging end to 2018, new analyses have concluded this week. H2 of 2018 was widely regarded as a difficult period for green finance, but the market is showing signs of resurgence The first of these analyses comes from Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) Sustainable Finance Market Outlook for the second half of 2019. According to this report, Europe accounted for almost half (48%) of global sustainable debt insurance between January and July this year, with growth driven by both the corporate and government sector. Indeed, BNEF is predicting that at least $380bn of sustainable debt finance will be provided during 2019, after a record H1. “The sustainable debt finance market is growing in volume, scope and popularity,” BNEF’s analysis states. “Record volumes of sustainable debt came to market in 1H 2019 – and the first half of the year is typically quieter than the second.”