Triple Bottom Line Urban Enterprise
Added by Alejandra Ramos on June 11, 2018
Richard Northcote, Chief Sustainability Officer of German chemicals company Covestro, one of the speakers at the Asia Pacific Housing Forum in Hong Kong, is done with describing Covestro’s business as “green” and “ecofriendly.” To Northcote, “People Planet and Profit” and inclusive business drives Covestro’s product development for growing housing ecosystems in Asia, as well as…read more
by Lenora
Added by Lenora on February 14, 2016
A collaborative industry-led housing forum on sustainable housing, led by CEOs, is launching in India.
by Lenora
Added by Lenora on May 2, 2015
The Developing Smart Cities site is increasingly driven by the manifesto to strengthen the links of the affordable housing ecosystem in emerging and developing markets – a topic that Debra Erb passionately wrote on recently. We were so impressed with how the EDGE software represents this mission that we decided to follow up on our…read more
by Aaron Leaf
Added by Aaron Leaf on November 16, 2014
The International Finance Corporation is touting EDGE, its new online tool for green building certification in emerging economies, as fast, affordable and simple. So I gave it a try. Within twenty seconds, I had signed into the EDGE tool and created an account. Ten seconds later, I was designing my first green project. The first…read more
Added by Hasan Alemdar on April 1, 2014
The numbers are staggering. Worldwide, 1.6 billion people live in substandard housing and 100 million are homeless.1 In India and Bangladesh alone, 108 million households are constructed from temporary materials, with an additional housing shortage of 32 million projected to double by 2030.2 Yet market research conducted by the Equality + Opportunity Foundation (E+O), the…read more
by Lenora
Added by Lenora on March 29, 2014
How big is the gap between financial markets and responsible investment in housing? Is it big enough to drive almost $1.5 billion in defaults and nearly $3.5 billion in total lost market value? The turmoil among Mexico’s homebuilders over the past year begs the questions as the market reels from a regulatory shift by the…read more
by Lenora
Added by Lenora on June 29, 2012
For the gold standard of housing social enterprise, look no further than Echale A Tu Casa!, an initiative of Mexican building materials company Ecoblock International and its dynamic founder Francesco Piazzesi. Echale enables families to self-build their homes with technical and community building assistance in peri-urban and rural Mexico. Echale is a response not only…read more
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Arman Smigielski wrote a new post, Lessons for Housing Developers from World Bank Report 4 months ago
“Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the Wo... read more
