Zero Net Energy - April 20, 2016

Shanghai Tower:  World’s Foremost Eco-Friendly Skyscraper?
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/14/filming-worlds-foremost-eco-friendly-skyscraper/

Greening the Empire State Building - report from 2011
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/10/1015400/-

Net Zero Habitat for Humanity homes
http://www.pgecurrents.com/2016/03/01/stockton-pge-habitat-for-humanity-dedicate-new-zero-net-energy-home-to-deserving-families/

ZNE Action Bulletin, Winter 2016
http://newbuildings.org/resource/zne-action-bulletin-winter-2016/

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)  called for legally binding targets for near-zero building energy standards
http://www.edie.net/news/6/Investors-call-for-legally-binding--zero-energy-building-standard/

Energiesprong - Dutch near net zero building retrofit kit
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3046525/in-just-a-week-this-kit-turns-old-houses-into-zero-energy-homes-for-free
http://energiesprong.nl

EU ZNE renovarion case studies:  zero-energy for zero-upfront-costs (The Netherlands); a revolving loan fund (Estonia); a large-scale national programme (Germany); a scheme tackling fuel poverty (France) and dedicated energy services for the public sector (United Kingdom). 
http://bpie.eu/publication/renovation-in-practice/

Toward Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Super High-Rise Commercial Buildings - 2014 White Paper 
http://www.screamingenergyapp.com/images/easyblog_articles/120/CABA-ZNE-white-paper-june-2014.pdf

Seoul to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings 26.9% by 2020
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_Po_detail.htm?No=118154

UK’s Costa coffee shops opening 4 new ZNE Eco-Pods
http://www.edie.net/news/6/Costa-to-roll-out-four--zero-energy--eco-pods-in-the-next-12-months/


NYC’s first Passive apartment building, Perch Harlem
http://perchliving.com
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/nycs-first-passive-apartment-building-set-to-open-next-month/