12 Days…
Here is a list of all the gifts I sent out over the 12 days of Christmas. I quickly found a variety of sites: some […]
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Are We Going About This All Wrong?
Are we going about this all wrong? What have we done so far? We have invested in energy efficiency, new systems, more monitoring, more data. […]
Continue reading »Co-creation
I am working on a resiliency project with an excellent consultant and wonderfully attentive owner involvement. I have been meeting with the consultant and one […]
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Resiliency Riff
Resilience in our daily lives: Public transit, sidewalks, electric infrastructure, bike lanes all lead to resiliency, so everyone has more than one way to get […]
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Closed-Loop and Limitless
We live in a closed environment. A biosphere that is, though VERY large and complex, limited. Yet I feel that one of the reasons we […]
Continue reading »Pipelines, Pipelines, Everywhere a Pipeline…
Dakota Access Pipeline, Keystone XL, NED pipeline in New England…everywhere you look there are pipelines proposed, debated, implemented. And this is typically how it goes…no […]
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Language: Redundancy is NOT a Dirty Word
“Your position is redundant”. “Let’s not be redundant.” “We seek efficiency so let’s eliminate redundancies.” All dreaded uses of the word and derivations of “redundant”. […]
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Tetris for Adults: a purposeful decision
Yesterday I stacked two cords of wood in our wood racks in the backyard. I stacked, my son “chucked” and it took only a few […]
Continue reading »Sea Level Rise in Upstate NY
Did I get your attention? Good. Below is a chart recently adopted by NYS as the projected Sea Level Rise levels for NYS. Through a […]
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Community; Why Do We Need It?
What is community to you? What does community have to do with sustainability? Why do we need community to achieve resiliency? Community has come up […]
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