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Slides: The Big Questions, Doug Kenney
Slides: The Big Questions, Doug Kenney
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: Doug Kenney, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado Law School
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Slides: Protecting Biodiversity Through Ecosystem Services, Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Slides: Protecting Biodiversity Through Ecosystem Services, Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University Law School
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Greenwashed?: Developers, Environmental Consciousness, And The Case Of Playa Vista, Matthew J. Parlow
Greenwashed?: Developers, Environmental Consciousness, And The Case Of Playa Vista, Matthew J. Parlow
Matthew Parlow
While many businesses are becoming greener, development corporations may have the greatest incentive to integrate environmental values into their everyday business practices. With the effects of urbanization, suburbanization, and sprawl, cities are increasingly requiring environmental mitigation measures for approval of new development. In response, some development corporations may become greenwashed to obtain discretionary land use approvals to build their proposed developments. Others may build greener developments to meet the market demand from environmentally conscious buyers. An increasing number of developers, however, adopt environmentally responsible business practices for, at least in significant part, altruistic reasons. A prime example of this phenomenon …