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 […]
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The Key is Kindness
I took the bus home in a snowstorm the other day, the snow storm called Bombognesis, which was of not-such biblical proportions here in Albany […]
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Awesome Charrettes: Part 3 – Logistics
” a goal without a plan is just a wish” This quote is not just about the results of the charrette meeting. It is about […]
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Are We Going About This All Wrong?
Are we going about this all wrong? What have we done so far? We have invested in energy efficiency, new systems, more monitoring, more data. […]
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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Guilty and Greening
A few years ago, at an inter-agency committee meeting to work on greening state agencies, one of the prominent leaders associated with the work introduced […]
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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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Awesome Charrettes: Part 1- Big Picture
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 […]
Continue reading »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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Solutions, Part 2: Challenges in Implementation
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein In my last blog post I used www.thesolutionsproject.org to illustrate […]
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