Buyers Want More Sustainable Homes, Zillow Report Says
Zillow’s 2025 “Home Trends” report says homebuyers are increasingly looking for homes with climate-resiliency features.
The Bill for Climate Change Is Coming Due. How Will We Pay for It?
From severe storms to nuisance flooding, Boston is facing accelerating costs from climate change. But fortunately, there are several ideas on Beacon Hill that would help pay for infrastructure to protect us.
Commission Eyes Roadmap To Cut Building Emissions
The new advisory commission created to help the state meet its carbon reduction requirements by shifting to cleaner buildings and addressing heating fuels that contribute to emissions was sworn in Wednesday and will begin gathering public input on the transition in March.
Manchin Won’t Support $3.5T Infrastructure Deal
As congressional Democrats speed ahead this week in pursuit of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending, including climate change mitigation and adaptation money, a Democratic senator vital to the bill’s fate says the cost will need to be slashed to $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion to win his support.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Must Be an Election Coming Up
Designers Seek Defenses for Extreme Heat and Flooding
The summer of 2021’s record-breaking heat and precipitation in Greater Boston is adding urgency to additional requirements for commercial buildings and development sites and designs that can withstand expected extreme weather in coming years.
Harbor Move Raises Troubling Questions
Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s legacy of largely apolitical planning appears to be well and truly dead. Mayor Kim Janey’s withdrawal of the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan raises potent questions about the future of other supposedly-settled city plans.
Developers Pay the Bill to Save the Seaport
Developers in South Boston’s Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park will chip in toward projects designed to stave off sea level rise under a new resiliency funding formula.
Clean Energy HVAC Won’t Happen Without Incentives, Report Says
Switching from fossil fuel sources to electric heating systems in commercial buildings will remain rare in Massachusetts without more financial incentives and government mandates such as building code and zoning requirements, a Boston-based business group says.
Bigger Action Plans Needed for a More Resilient Massachusetts
Winter has come and gone, and while we appreciate the good fortune of a mild start to 2019, metropolitan Boston and areas of coastal Massachusetts still need to prepare for the storms to come.
DeLeo Announces Competing $1B Climate Change Proposal
House Speaker Robert DeLeo proposed a sweeping $1 billion environmental grant program Friday that, over the next decade, would fund municipal efforts to build renewable-energy infrastructure and invest in climate resiliency programs.
