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…
Four Reasons to Swap your DIY COVID Strategy for a Third-Party Framework
Are you planning to patch together a DIY approach to COVID-readiness? We are inching closer to a post-lockdown world, and real estate operators want their spaces to be safe and healthy. There’s a lot of information out there about limiting…
October Update: COVID-19 Certification Options
Our team is working with several building owners and operators to set a COVID-related strategy using covid rating systems and covid certification. We are helping them to find ways to execute industry-leading safety measures while also connecting this COVID-related work…
Reflections on Earth Day 2020 from my six-foot bubble
By Tom Paladino
How ironic – #EarthDay50 comes in 2020, the year of perfect vision, as the entire world clamors for a vision forward. I’ve been reflecting on my sheltered life and how shocking this new reality of sheltering in place is. For…
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…
New York City's Green New Deal
The US left the Paris Climate Agreement on June 1, 2017. Since then US mayors have made urgent commitments through Climate Mayors, We are Still In, and other avenues to illustrate America’s commitment to the environment at the city level,…
Why Net Zero Water?
Why Net Zero? Throughout the world, and certainly, in the United States, communities are facing significant water-related challenges. The United Nations projects that global water demand will outstrip the supply by 40 percent by 2030. Shocking news reports about cities like Chennai,…
Don't make another climate action plan
A climate action plan is a detailed and strategic framework for measuring, planning, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and related climate impacts. Municipalities and companies use climate action plans as customized roadmaps for making decisions and understanding where and how…
Building for Resilience – All about RELi
January temperatures topped out at 35 degrees Celsius in Australia and bottomed out at -51 degrees Celsius in North Dakota. Watch on YouTube These radical temperatures capture headlines, and they are capturing the attention of real estate developers who have…
Why Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Matter in Real Estate
Real estate owners that don’t have published ESG strategies may be missing a big financial opportunity. A panel discussion at Nareit REIT World 2018 addressed the growing interest and benefits of environment, social, and governance (ESG) criteria for real estate…