Tag: White Papers

  • Climate change’s upside: Wealthier, healthier cities

    While national governments struggle to establish an agreed global climate deal, many of the world’s largest cities have been taking action to combat the effects of a changing climate. As a result, these cities are cutting their carbon footprint, reporting annual energy savings of up to $13 million, and their residents are benefiting from healthier…

  • Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’

    Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…

  • Report details strategies for Yixing, China, to be ‘sustainable city’

    Culminating from extensive collaboration between the business-led Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII) and City of Yixing, China, a report was released June 17 identifying strategies for Yixing’s vision to become a “sustainable city” by 2020. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) UII report, “A Solutions Landscape for Yixing, China,” delivers findings from an interdisciplinary team of sustainability…

  • Case study: Mennonite Church office building

    For Mennonite Church USA, the desire to build its new office complex to LEED-Gold was deeply ingrained in the organization’s culture and history. “We have always been conscious of th…

  • Milwaukee’s Green Corridor

    What began as one man’s mission to spread the word about rainwater management has grown into a community-wide green movement in Milwaukee’s Garden District. Led by a steering committ…