Riff on Revkin: The Potential of Puberty
The world I live in heals me and frustrates me. This world that is so placidly beautiful and stable, while simultaneously cruel, shortsighted, and unresolved. […]
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It’s So Beautiful, It Almost Looks Fake.
My mom was not a good cook, having been brought up in the time of “Mock Apple Pie” made with Ritz crackers and without apples […]
Continue reading »Integrative Process 3: Purpose
Another interesting facet of Integrative Process is that what you are working ON is not really what you are working FOR. A building is not […]
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Hate Free Zone
Have you ever read an e-mail or seen a tweet with a certain phrase and had a powerful moment of “ugh”? Had a moment where […]
Continue reading »Choose “Compost” over a Silver Bullet
“There is no silver bullet, but educating girls is like silver buckshot.” What does this mean? It tries to communicate that we can be much […]
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Is it Sustainable: e-readers
I read. A lot. I tend to love the idea of reading non-fiction, but rarely complete reading any non-fiction book. Sorry, Thomas Friedman…i will finish […]
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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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Resiliency Riff
Resilience in our daily lives: Public transit, sidewalks, electric infrastructure, bike lanes all lead to resiliency, so everyone has more than one way to get […]
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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 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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