First, let’s give credit where credit is due. To Unilever’s credit, their CEO Paul Polman is trying to turn a company around that one can equate to the turning of an aircraft carrier. It is a slow process. Without going into the great detail of what the company is doing, the most important aspect of […]
Office parks and dinosaurs. What a great tag line for the article…it is so clear that the suburban office park was, and has, become a dinosaur. The Merck headquarters is now vacant. This huge piece of property has no one to use it. This type of office park was never sustainable. It was away from […]
The front page photograph in the Time’s article says it all. To my mind it speaks to people’s arrogance, greed, folly and ignorance all in one image. To think that this form of development is in any way sustainable is so patently absurd that I have to wonder if we are indeed able to learn. […]
This is one of the best pieces of news that I have read in some time when it comes to helping eliminate strip mining. By any measure, strip mining is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of extracting coal that we have ever devised. In turn, banks have been making a good deal of […]
You get what you pay for!! This old adage appears to be proven yet again based on the problems that some homeowners are experiencing with cheap laminate flooring. When working on a LEED certified building, we take great pains to eliminate off gassing of formaldehyde and other VOC’s. That is one of the core requirements […]