Nature Knows: Diversity
I attended Greenbuild, the international Green Building conference, just before Thanksgiving, and had the great pleasure of listening to President Obama speak with the CEO […]
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Nature Knows: Teamwork
What makes a team? Is it a bunch of rah-rah and pom-poms and look-alike costumes? Is it always and completely believing the same thing? Is […]
Continue reading »More Possibilities with Fewer Cars
Ten years ago, we reduced our number of owned cars to one, from three. To be honest, one barely worked. Suffice it to say we […]
Continue reading »Don’t Solve the Problem…
Instead, create the opportunities within which the problem will be solved. Time and time again I encounter situations where people just “fix” things, or so […]
Continue reading »Balance – Fail, and Learn
I went to San Diego to speak at the inaugural conference on Wellness in Buildings. It was excellent. A small, focused, and incredibly intelligent group […]
Continue reading »Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Oh how I am changing. I am discovering that Integrative Process (IP) and Dynamic Governance (DG) have traction in the world of design and construction, […]
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Game Night, the Serenity Prayer, and Advocacy in the Anthropocene.
My friends and family got together to go apple picking and play games yesterday. It was a bit drizzly, but warm as we over-loaded our bags […]
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A Fine Line
I struggle, nearly every day, to find the right place for the line that divides know-it-all lecturing from leadership. The line that divides aggressive bossiness […]
Continue reading »Our Need for Nature
I realized as my son and I were hiking in the Adirondacks this last Friday that we spent a week planning, drove 2.5 hours each […]
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This is Inequity
I often ride my bike to work. I try to do this on good weather days in the summer and start as early as I […]
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