Green Building Looking Smarter and Smarter...Cultivating the Green Building Industry...LEED Leads the Way in the Green Building Movement...NAR Going Green with New Washington Building...Making Power Pay...A Better Learning Environment...To Make It Truly Green, Just Add Water: Saving Water by Design...Building Green: Buyers Show Interest, But Are They Willing To Pay?...Green Mortgages...Commercial Real Estate Industry: Green Helps Gain the Competitive Edge...Time to Move On: Recycling "Greyfield" Sites, Dying Regional Malls, and Closed Airports...Smart Growth in the States...On the Web

Revitalization Meets Smart Growth...New Downtown Housing, Not Just the Biggest Cities...If You Rebuild, Will They Come?...The Code Word is Smart Growth...What Once Was Old Is Now New...Attractions of the Small Town...No Vacancies: Cities Struggle to Reclaim Abandoned Properties...Smart Growth Redo of Mid-Size Cities...Commercial Comebacks...New Life in the Old Burbs...All Aboard!...Smart Growth in the States

The spectre of shadow space...REALTOR VIP® makes RCA membership even more valuable...Commercial options in San Francisco...A Voice for Commercial Real Estate...Congress poised to address energy...New leasehold improvement treatment proposed...NAR comments on third draft of Basel II Accord....Explicit agreement must exist for broker to earn commission...Building access not an illegal taking if “reasonable fee” is offered....Energy efficiency...Bankruptcy reform proposals....Tort reform....Commercial data standards: From dream to reality...Commercial focus at NAR Leadership Summit...The REALTORS® Land Institute has a new look...To Sublease or Not?...

Navigating the insurance crisis...A year of expansion and new services...Recovery slow, but certain...Broker lien laws...Continuing education credits....Industry terminology...License reciprocity...Prospects bright for NAR-backed legislation...Forced telecommunications access...Bankruptcy reform proposals...Terrorism risk protection...Main Street, Wall Street, & real estate...Counselors offer dispute resolution program...

Niche Plays...The days of mass consumption are over...Three years of success is just the beginning...Listing database under study...A year of progress and plans...EPA rule aids water submetering...Recapture revision proposed...Terrorism insurance program could expire...FASIT changes could affect REMICs...Co-brokerage agreement with out-of-state licensee illegal because no state license reciprocity prohibited it...Bankruptcy reform proposals...Tort reform...Leasehold improvement depreciation...Tech’s impact on demand...IREM® FIRST: A premier online resource for managers...

BRAC: crisis and opportunity...Begin with the end in mind...Exciting new initiatives serve members...Commercial lien victories give brokers more protection...Terrorism debate heats up...ADA notification aids modifications...House reviews effects of Basel II proposal...Brownfields reform...REMIC modernization...Do-not-fax regulations...TICS Take Off...CCIM Institute says “Let’s Make a Deal”...Oral commission concession can’t modify agreement.

In March 2004, I was one of sixteen Chicago-area grad school students who traveled to Chiapas, Mexico for a one-week study abroad course on Sustainable Development and Non-Government Organizations (NGO's). We are studying for our Master's degrees in Public Service Management from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.