Nature Knows: Essence
Diversity is not about more. It’s about filling in the gap in knowledge with essential, locationally specific information and insights.
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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 […]
Continue reading »Gentrification Improvement
What if “gentrification” did not have to be the dirty word it has become? What if the benefits of increased attraction and a rise in […]
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“Building” is a Verb: Building Energy Boston, 2019
I got home very late Friday night from two full days plus of engaging with talented, knowledgeable, experienced, and giving people that make up the […]
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 […]
Continue reading »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. […]
Continue reading »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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