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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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 […]

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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”. […]

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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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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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“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: […]

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