As this may be my last post on the blog before Christmas, if not the new year, let me take this opportunity to wish Merry Christmas to each of you, your families and other loved ones, and a prosperous, fulfilling …
Sunday’s Adult Forum featured a conversation on Renewable Energy at St. Margaret’s. I spoke and was then followed by Mr. Rick Peters, CEO of Solar Energy Services of Millerville. Following are the PowerPoint slides I showed: So, again, think and …
This post is about thought-leaders Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Google, and Apple. It’s particularly about renewable energy employed at facilities of these organizations. It’s also intended to lead your thinking about renewable energy at St. Margaret’s Church, possibly on-site. (Read …
2 Internationally Recognized Thought-Leaders – One Local, One Global; and, SMC Read more »
First, some late breaking news– 101 houses of worship, including the Formation Building, have been registered for LEED certification. To date, 31 have been certified. 17,150 commercial or institutional projects are LEED certified in the U.S. alone. Worldwide, see this …
In Sundry Department- Here’s a very short post. About bicycling, footware, large-scale transportation; and other. For an update on bicyling, see The Quest to Reinvent Bicycling. And, just when you were wondering if something has been forgotten about reinventing bicycling, …
For the new Formation Building, the folks behind LEED (the U.S. Green Building Council and its affiliate Green Building Certification Institute – update: now called the Green Business Certification Institute) assess environmental priorities in regions across the country–called Regional Priority—for all projects seeking …
Check out the 5 graphs to the right. Too many downtrends, eh? I hope many of you made the time to read some of the series of articles on the Bay appearing in The Capital for 6 consecutive days from the …
(more on Green Power…) I’ve taken to analyzing my BGE bill since early this year, comparing it to each billing period last year. (Yeah, I’m lots of fun at a dinner party.) So, in the current bill I notice a …
Under the LEED certification category of Materials & Resources is Construction Waste Management, a project credit typically worth up to 2 points. Projects pursuing LEED certification can earn one point for 50% and two for 75% construction waste—either by weight or by …
Formation Building Construction Waste Management Scenario Read more »
Today we prayerfully remember the terrorist attack on our nation which snuffed out the lives of nearly 3,000 on this date in 2001. God bless those who lost loved ones and friends. Linked here is the National September 11 Memorial & …