Green Building Law
The Green Building Law blog is written by Shari Shapiro, a lawyer with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel in Philadelphia. She writes on pre-consumer, non-recycled content regarding green building and the law.
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GREEN BUILDING LAW IS MOVING TODAY!
As of TODAY! Green Building Law is moving to its new, fabulous site:www.greenbuildinglawblog.comAll the old content has been migrated over, including your fabulous comments. No new posts here--reset your google readers and see you at the new site!
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Lawyers?
As I mentioned briefly in my Greenbuild post at Green Building Law, legal issues, especially risk and liability associated with building green, were little discussed at Greenbuild. A bunch of green building lawyers were sitting around and speculating why this might be. The conclusion we came to was...
Pink Is The New Green
In my summary of my experiences at Greenbuild, I blogged:The economy tanking may be the push needed to implement basic green changes like energy efficiency and conservation. The next big green thing is likely to be blown insulation, not photovoltaics. Let's define our terms first. Futurelab has a...
ASHRAE 189 Update
Green Building Insider has an article that USGBC is reconstituting the ASHRAE 189 standard committee, but is committed to going forward with the code version of LEED which local governments can incorporate into their regulations.
Green Building Law--Quoted!
I was quoted in an article at buildinggreen.com on the AHRI v. Albuquerque suit. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Listening To Greenbuild
Things have been a bit quiet here at GBL because I went to Greenbuild this week. Greenbuild is a conference of 30,000+ green building professionals. I decided not to blog or tweet the conference, but rather to try to really listen to what my green industry fellow travellers were saying. So here is...
New Green Building Litigation In The Offing--Shade Trees v. Solar Panels
The LA Times had a story about a neighborly spat over shade trees v. solar panels. Apparently, the Shade Control Act in California prevents shade trees from blocking more than 10% of sunlight from a solar array:It protects homeowners' investments in solar panels, which can cost tens of thousands...
Strengthening States' Authority To Enact Tougher Green Building Standards
Treehugger has an article identifying 7 executive orders which Obama should sign to protect the environment. The one which interested me calls for protecting stronger state laws from weaker federal onesThe next President should [...] should amend the existing Executive Order on Federalism to...
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China v. US--Top Down v. Bottom Up Green Building Standards
Via @allroads on Twitter, I found an interesting presentation on the difference between green building standards in China and the United States. As I discussed here China takes a top down approach to mandating environmental change. In the United States, it is a more bottom up, market based...
