Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Climate Modeling for a Resilient Business and Future
This post explores changes that developers and their teams need to make to their risk and resilience strategies by climate modeling for climate change. We often talk about sustainability strategies that help to minimize environmental impact and slow the effects…
USGBC Brings More Certification Options with LEED Zero
In a broad sense, net-zero refers to achieving an overall balance between resources demanded and resources returned, and USGBC has launched a certification option called LEED Zero, which defines net-zero goals for energy, carbon, water, and/or waste. Here is how…
Hot Take: Kerry and McCarthy Unveil Biden's Executive Order on Climate
By Tom Paladino
President Biden is taking a series of actions on climate change today, his seventh in office. Biden has appointed John Kerry to be the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and Kerry was responsible for announcing the Executive Order on Climate,…
Shift Your Energy to Carbon
Now is the right and necessary time for the commercial real estate industry to shift its environmental strategy from just energy, a carbon contributor, to carbon itself. Leaders in sustainable real estate know how to optimize energy. The LEED rating…
Concrete, Cement, and Carbon
By JD Harper
Concrete is widely recognized as a major source of carbon emissions and pollution. In this post, we are going to talk about the real carbon culprit in concrete, which is cement. In fact, the cement industry puts more than 2…
50 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
The basics: Your carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions that come from the production, use, and disposal of products or services. Your carbon footprint includes carbon dioxide – the gas most commonly emitted by humans –…
Net Zero Carbon Today - the Hammer and the Dance
By Tom Paladino
Is there such a thing as a coincidence? Here at Paladino, we started deeply exploring new ways to address carbon emissions and Net Zero Carbon in June just as the world hit peak shutdown and stories about reduced carbon emissions…
Maryland Property and Asset Managers Take Note: Building Tune-Up Program Incentives
Property and Asset managers in Maryland have the opportunity to improve energy performance for little to no out-of-pocket cost thanks to the EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act. As part of the EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act, utility companies across the…
The Glass Box Paradox
Glass box designs have an energy performance problem. Owners, architects, and inhabitants alike love glass box design for its reflective, shimmering, and transparent qualities. The connection between the inside and outside worlds is part of the allure of glass buildings,…
The Environmental Impact of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and sustainability are linked in a way that wasn’t experienced with past pandemics. There’s something about the international response that allows many to draw parallels to the fight against climate change in a way that Ebola and…