20/20 Foresight
Our sustainable future will be guaranteed not by personal actions or government mandates or corporate revelations that green business is healthier for the bottom line…but […]
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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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Guilty and Greening
A few years ago, at an inter-agency committee meeting to work on greening state agencies, one of the prominent leaders associated with the work introduced […]
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Solutions, Part 1: Recognizing the Opportunities
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, said “without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.” A brilliant comprehension. Scanning […]
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I recently gave a presentation at Building Energy 2017 in Boston, called Redundancy, Diversity, Connectivity: optimizing your projects, your business, your life, and I was […]
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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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Time We Learn from Whales
A friend shared a video today about whales, and how we are now discovering that their presence in the oceans is part of an exceptionally […]
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I had a great discussion with my brother-in-law while in Rotterdam (Netherlands). He is exceptionally intelligent, politically savvy, and knows we need to deal with […]
Continue reading »Diversity for Efficiency
In the HVAC realm, engineers understand diversity factors. You size the systems understanding that not every space will be requiring full airflow all the time, […]
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My son just came home from a week-long school trip to Boston. The point was for the class to learn about American history in Salem and […]
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