Building Operations and Occupant Behavior
The next frontier in sustainable building will include understanding the impacts of occupancy. Designers strive to create energy-efficient buildings by controlling the physical features. However,...
View ArticleThe Original Platinum Office
After more than 10 years in operation, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Philip Merrill Environmental Center became the first building in the nation to achieve LEED Platinum rating from the U.S. Green...
View ArticleThe Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Program Luncheon
SMPS hosted Architect’s Round Table From Ancient Fortress to City Skylines on February 22, 2012 An afternoon spent with the leaders of the San Diego‘s architectural culture discussing their strengths,...
View ArticleThe Drive of Living Building Challenge is INNOVATION
FOR A VISIONARY PATH TO A RESORATIVE FUTURE. The Living Building Challenge is a certification program that defines the most advanced measures of sustainability in the built environment possible today....
View ArticleBullitt Foundation Strives for Living Building Challenge Certification Lead...
An office building wearing what looks like a wide brim sun hat? It is a solar-panel array topping off the six-story home for the Bullitt Foundation, reflecting founder Dorothy Bullitt’s aspiration to...
View ArticlebioPCM Complies with Living Building Challege Materials Red List
“Increasing the thermal mass in buildings is one of the most overlooked solutions to our global energy crisis. In this sense Phase Change Materials represent an important part of our world’s future...
View ArticleUS Companies Cannot Compete with Countries
In President Obama’s State of the Union address he spoke to reviving manufacturing in America, which is a complex problem involving political parties, taxes, regulatory policies, exchange rates and...
View Article9 Strategies to End Corporate Rule
Amend the constitution to end corporate person-hood Dive into grassroots campaigns. Hold corporations accountable to our laws. Get past the propaganda. Support Indy media and keep the Internet free....
View ArticleEcology and Commerce
In the past few weeks I have been surrounded and inspired by co-learners, all working towards the promise of business to increase the well being of human-kind through service, creative invention and...
View ArticleRestorative and Regenerative Living Systems
I recently had the pleasure to spend an evening and following day with Bill Reed, principal of Regenesis Inc. and co-author of The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of...
View ArticleIf you’re the smartest person in the room you’re in the wrong room.
Shift Your Focus from Unity to Duality and Design a Blueprint for a Sustainable Future (First published on Uncommon Sense, the blog of Bulldog Drummond) When surrounded by creative and intelligent...
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