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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You Can’t Harsh My Mellow

I am sick of being heckled. When someone yells at me to “get some exercise” when I’m on my Segway, and they are yelling from […]

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Is it Sustainable: Hiking

The frustrating part about discussing sustainability is the term itself, and how it means very different things to different people. It can also mean different […]

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Biophilia at Fallingwater

I turned 50 a week or two ago, and I needed some inspiration. My husband planned a trip for us to Fallingwater, so I could […]

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The Blame Game

Irony – crashing your bike while presenting on bicycle safety. I taught a bike safety class at our “Bring Your Kids to Work” day event […]

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Questions and Answers

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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Step One Is This:

One of the issues holding us back is arrogance. We have no time and not enough resources to continue to think we know it all, […]

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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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Community; Why Do We Need It?

What is community to you? What does community have to do with sustainability? Why do we need community to achieve resiliency? Community has come up […]

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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 […]

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