Category: Green Building Tools

LEED, energy modeling, charrette guides, etc. Anything useful for integrative design work.

Awesome Charrettes: Part 2 – Language

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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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Awesome Charrettes: Part 1- Big Picture

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First, what is a charrette? The historic term comes from French design schools where project would be picked up at midnight in a cart. The […]

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Nature-Informed Business

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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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Bio-synergistic design, Critical commentary, Green Building Tools, green business, High Performance Tools, Sustainability in Depth, The Profession

Dear Governor Cuomo,

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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

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“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”. […]

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Community; Why Do We Need It?

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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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Perception Management to Change the World.

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  I was thinking about perception management in the way of mind-shift assistance. Not in the evil, manipulate the politicos and the populace with disinformation […]

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Synergies: The User Interface

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Last week I set about summarizing the interdependence needed in a building project, and I identified three areas where synergies would benefit overall performance and […]

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Synergies: Let’s Be Independent, Together

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Entering into the world of systems thinking, I’ve come to realize that we could be paying much more attention to synergies, to co-benefits and to […]

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Critical commentary, Energy, Green Building Tools

Hitched

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The quote above is one of those truly defining quotes about sustainability, triple bottom line planning, and just plain common sense. I snapped this photo […]

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