Initiatives

Initiatives

Overview of Initiatives is coming soon.

Initiative for Sustainable Development

Operating within the CU Real Estate Center, the Initiative for Sustainable Development’s (ISD) mission is to:

1. build a financial case for sustainable real estate development from the built environment to large landscape conservation.
2. educate the next generation of real estate professionals in the area of sustainability.
3. become the research leader in the field of sustainable real estate
4. disseminate best practices & convene stakeholders from across the state, country, and world.

ISD is grounded in experiential and service-based learning working to catalyze innovative public-private partnerships that will result in on-the-ground projects that will benefit our communities and environment, whether that includes mixed use green buildings, transit-oriented development, new flows of ecosystem services like carbon or water, for-profit conservation real estate projects, and sources of below market rate capital for our communities while simultaneously providing an incredible real world educational and research opportunities for our students.

ISD offers courses, conducts research, and forms strategic partnerships across the increasingly overlapping spheres of real estate and sustainable finance.