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 […]
Continue reading »Nature-Informed Business
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 »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 […]
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Language: Redundancy is NOT a Dirty Word
“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 »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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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 […]
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 »What We Don’t Need
I attended a SUNY (State University of New York) Sustainability conference last week. It was exceptional to see the work of different campuses in the […]
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