The country’s hotel industry has been a barren landscape for net-zero design, but new projects are popping up and they suggest that owners are finding ways around traditional roadblocks to lowering carbon emissions in a very energy-intensive corner of the commercial real estate market. In San Francisco, the William Penn Hotel in the city’s Tenderloin district is getting a $3 million net-zero rehab that will benefit the formerly homeless residents who live in its single-occupancy rooms. Improvements will include solar panels on the roof, better access to natural light, and new ventilation systems, according to this post at Fast Company.…

We set our scene: a tired neighborhoodIn Illinois. A cold December day.An older building, made of brick and wood.The bricks are dirty, and the sky is gray. Two units in Chicago, near the Loop:Below, a diner with an oaken door—The owner calls her place “A Bowl of Soup”—A big apartment on the second floor. Adele despaired; her restaurant was unwell.The Covid rules kept customers away.Her menu, mostly soup, just wouldn’t sell;Her bills were mounting, every passing day. Her pantry shelves were almost empty now;Her Christmas prospects now appeared quite bleak.“What will I cook?” she sighed, with knitted brow.“I have potatoes…

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