Awesome Charrettes: Part 2 – Language
The hardest part of any charrette is encouraging full and free communication without allowing degradation into negativity and restrictions. Somehow, each of us has learned […]
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The hardest part of any charrette is encouraging full and free communication without allowing degradation into negativity and restrictions. Somehow, each of us has learned […]
Continue reading »First, what is a charrette? The historic term comes from French design schools where project would be picked up at midnight in a cart. The […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »To: The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York State NY State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 Date: March 18, 2017 […]
Continue reading »“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”. […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »Last week I set about summarizing the interdependence needed in a building project, and I identified three areas where synergies would benefit overall performance and […]
Continue reading »Entering into the world of systems thinking, I’ve come to realize that we could be paying much more attention to synergies, to co-benefits and to […]
Continue reading »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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