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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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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Nature of the Space
I am currently fascinated by the “Nature of the Space”. This title captures four of the 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design as defined by Terrapin Bright […]
Continue reading »Catch-up, Guilt-free
I have not posted for a couple of weeks. Okay, 4 weeks. But this ties in to some things I have learned over the holiday […]
Continue reading »“We abused the hell out of that dorm…”
A month or so ago I had the privilege of touring a new residence hall at SUNY New Paltz. The mindful design of this building […]
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My Response to the Election Results?: Shock and Reflections
As I walked to work today, hoping to assess and understand the world and my emotional state, a few words kept appearing in my head: […]
Continue reading »Parenting Your Project
Working toward a more sustainable future, including predominantly changes in the design, construction and operations arena, requires many of the same skills and approaches as […]
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Perception Management to Change the World.
I was thinking about perception management in the way of mind-shift assistance. Not in the evil, manipulate the politicos and the populace with disinformation […]
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Synergies: Site Savvy
In recent blogs I’ve talked about the buildings systems and synergies, including the building enclosure working together with itself and with mechanical HVAC and power […]
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The quote above is one of those truly defining quotes about sustainability, triple bottom line planning, and just plain common sense. I snapped this photo […]
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