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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Solutions, Part 2: Challenges in Implementation
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein In my last blog post I used www.thesolutionsproject.org to illustrate […]
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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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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 […]
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I have had a few songs in my head over the last days, battling for attention. The first is from Moody Blues – the Question […]
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Cost Effectiveness
I don’t know if I should class this as a language discussion or a systems thinking discussion, but in the understanding that true solutions come […]
Continue reading »Dear Governor Cuomo,
To: The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York State NY State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 Date: March 18, 2017 […]
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 […]
Continue reading »Entitlement Needs a Partner
My son and I attended Brain Candy at Proctor’s in Schenectady this past Friday. We both love Adam Savage and my son is a fan […]
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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: […]
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