I began to worry about environmental protection. Perhaps there was a premonition of a Clinton loss, or a sense that the results I was seeing just after 9pm didn’t have the right “feel.” So, it was the Paris Climate Accord …
From Wilmington, DE, comes news of Chemours, a major chemicals company spun off from DuPont about 18 months ago, choosing to remain in the city. GE is relocating its world HQ from Fairfield, CT, to the Seaport District of downtown …
Millennial Workforce Shunning the ‘Burbs? How Some Leading Corporations Are Reacting Read more »
Continuing yesterday’s post about the Bullitt Center (Pt 1), I’ll recopy the Living Building Challenge Imperatives summary that are relevant to today’s post: Energy: A solar array generates as much electricity as the building uses (actually 60% more than we …
Homage to “The World’s Greenest Commercial Building” – Pt 2 of 2 Read more »
The focus of this blog must return to its origins, now and then. Namely, how to design, build and operate very energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable buildings. What’s the world’s most sustainable commercial building? That’d be the 50K sq. ft. 6-story …
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Late last month on a Sunday evening I attended Blue Water Congregation’s Celebration dinner buffet at St. Anthony’s of Padua Catholic Church on the far east side of the city. It was immediately evident at St. Anthony’s that pave-over has long …
What Baltimore Congregations are Doing to Improve Stormwater Remediation Read more »
“Wild nature will heal PTSD” The dedication of what’s now officially named “The Green Road Healing Woodland Garden” occurred late Monday morning, September 26th. The sky was overcast. Tree cover across the Green Road Garden was plentiful. A family of …
CarbonCureTM – Simply Better Concrete “Now CO2 from smokestacks can be permanently sequestered inside Ernest Maier concrete masonry.” “100K grey block absorb the same amount of CO2 as 110 full grown trees will absorb in a year.” Let’s call it “green …
“In a land of glaciers, even optimism is receding” Appearing on “The World” page of a recent Washington Post edition, the subtitle to Tim Craig’s piece reads: “The villages of Pakistan’s scenic valleys are coming to terms with what life …
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 …
Seems Like “Get Out!” Is What Many of You are Doing… Read more »
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 …
Doing Something Along the Other Side of the Tracks Read more »