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water wars at MiaGreen

Two weeks ago Aleida and I took a dreadful red-eye flight from LA to Miami. I hate red-eye flights. We flew with Virgin America this time, which was a new experience for us. Having an internet connection while en-route helped me wrap up the final details of a show I was scheduled [...]

BrightTALK Green Building – Review 2

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The third session on the BrightTALK Green Building Summit line-up was Do Green Buildings Make Dollars and Sense? presented by Dave Pogue, National Director of Sustainability for CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Pogue presented the results of a nationwide study conducted over the last year which included 154 buildings, all [...]

BrightTALK Green Building – Review 1

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The 2010 BrightTALK Green Building Summit on Thursday, January 28 was incredibly informative – hopefully the webcasts attracted a sufficiently large listenership. I joined all seven webinars and arrived at the end of the day with over a dozen pages of notes. While I will not post even a [...]

choose change: blog action day

We probably all have friends or family who don’t respond well to change, and when faced with the need to change experience extreme discomfort. And we probably also know people who thrive on change. Which one are you? For me, I’m comfortable with change, but don’t necessarily thrive on it. I understand and accept [...]

bitter rhetoric: values voter summit

If you need an example to illustrate the depth, and absurdity, of the rhetoric being used by sustainability opponents, look no further than the 2009 Values Voter Summit held last week. [...]

we need a sustainability race

While special interest groups representing big energy, coal, and oil industries continue their campaign of deception against climate change legislation, the rest of the developed and developing world is moving toward sustainability. They are not waiting for us to weigh in on the issue. They are moving forward without the United States. [...]

higher temperature, slower economy?

Is higher temperature connected to decreased economic activity? If so, what happens this century as global temperatures rise?
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Los Angeles Idea Project 2008

A video of a Buildings & Climate Change presentation.
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