Finance & Investing

Real estate finance forecasters believe 2011 will be a year to buy back into the real estate market. If their predictions come true, structuring financing for green building and renewable energy projects will still require more legal creativity and effort than financing more traditional projects.   Read More

While green has become the new black and cleantech is now viewed as sexy, affordable housing -- as fundamental to societal well-being as energy security -- maintains a reputation as a dowdy old aunt. But that can change as new views emerge of the social return on investment provided by green, affordable housing. Read More

What are the real impacts of the 400 million pieces of e-waste that hit the waste stream each year in the United States? Read More

"Out of sight, out of mind" is no longer a viable IT asset disposition strategy, and a definitive taxonomy from research firm Gartner spells out which firms are best able to meet companies' needs for secure, responsible electronics recycling. Read More

Experts say it will cost $300 billion per year by 2020 to stop biodiversity loss, but the Global Canopy says that we are now only delivering between $36 billion and $38 billion per year. Read More

This scorecard from the Electronics Takeback Coalition rates manufacturers of computers, TVs, printers and game consoles on their recycling efforts, and finds mediocre performance at best. Read More

Although the growing momentum of PACE programs has been stifled by the FHFA, it's important to understand the effect of policy-enabled private financing programs on the ecosystem of stakeholders and how those implications will inform future financing efforts. Read More

Despite the rocky economy, executives from around the world are anticipating a big upswing in how climate change will impact their firms' operations. Here is what's behind their climate strategies. Read More

This paper outlines potential water-related risks facing the mining industry and highlights important gaps in water-related disclosure. Read More

For the 11th year, SAM Indexes provides analysis of corporate sustainability leadership for the index that now contains 318 components. Read More