Project registration for LEED for Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance is the fastest growing among all the LEED certification standards offered by the U.S. Green Building Council. Here are tips on how to make the most of LEED-EBOM certification and help position your tenants to pursue LEED for Commercial Interiors.

One silver lining in the dark clouds of our current economic conditions is how people are turning to simple, low-cost measures that can save tons of energy and money. Sometimes being forced to get lean makes you realize how fat you really are. Our obese existing building stock is being forced to get on the treadmill and the patient we save may end up being our own economy.

PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of the largest hurdles to investment in clean energy -- the upfront cost. This post, the first of a three-part series, looks at how the fate of PACE programs could determine the future of the clean energy economy.