Canary (from The New Yorker)
Year: 2016
Seems Like “Get Out!” Is What Many of You are Doing…
As readership has fallen a good share in the last week or so, likely due to vacationing, I will hold off on posting more than a green cartoon today and next Wednesday. This one comes from the 8/8 issue of …
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Doing Something Along the Other Side of the Tracks
Group of Human Hands Holding Together Concept
2-3 years ago I encountered several folk who asked me what green initiatives like LEED offer to the poor. Fortunately, I had an (one) answer. I knew the Annapolis Housing Authority was putting solar PV panels on the roofs of …
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My Experience at St. Margaret’s, More Personally
Little Falls Watershed Alliance logo
Awhile back I was invited by Jodi Rose, the Executive Director of Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake (IFP), to write about my personal experience as a sustainable building consultant for St. Margaret’s Church of Annapolis, MD. As editors oft do, …
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Get Out! Revisited (Maintaining a state of mind)
When visiting Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park a few weeks ago, I bought at the visitors center a copy of Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple, compiled by Chris Highland. (13th printing since 2001.) While gazing into the snow-capped …
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Wild Salmon. Part 2
(This post is a continuation from last week on the subject of wild salmon.) Among things I learned while on vacation in the PacNW recently- how wild salmon “inform” the growth of trees (Part 1 last week), and the danger …
Wild Salmon. Part 1
Three months after starting this blog for the parishioners of St. Margaret’s Church, Annapolis, to introduce them to the LEED 3rd-party rating system for sustainable buildings and to greener living, I wrote a post which had the most number of …
The Art of Stormwater Management (Incredible! Beguiling! Beautiful!)
Welcome to some certifiable artistic creativity–with positive environmental impact. The work of Seattle sculpture Buster Simpson is an eye-opener, to pick one adjective! (His curriculum vitae, here.) Back in 2009, Simpson gave a lecture titled: “Poetic Utilities: Artists Re-Imagine Water Infrastructure.” …
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Pop-Up Outdoor Offices? And, the Flint Water Crisis Revisited Some–Parts/Billion
The piece in The Washington Post the other day opened: “Office-space design is undergoing a period of experimentation.” With the accompanying picture, I thought the lead was a bit understated. I first saw notice of the new concept at “Biznow, …
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Get Out!
It’s that time of year again–for those who may have been procrastinating due to “unseasonable” weather. Time to get to the woods, the shore or a national park. That’s some of what I’m looking to do here in the San …