- Josh Radoff For three years now the MIT Sloan Management Review has worked with the Boston Consulting Group to survey executives on the implementation of sustainability practices. Covering a vast swath of sectors the report provides insight into how things are moving generally with regard to sustainability and also serves as a reason to [...]
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–Yetsuh Frank I wish LEED had more nuanced critics. As regular as winter, articles crop up purporting to outline the problems with LEED. Every time I dive in eagerly and almost every time I come away disappointed. Maybe this is inevitable. LEED is technocratic, both in terms of content and process, and the building industry [...]
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April 12, 2012 6:00 – 7:00pm Tour begins at 6pm, mingling from 6:30 to 7pm Please join us as we tour the FLOR offices and showroom. FLOR, Inc. is the company behind the beautiful, innovative and responsible system of 50cm (19.7-inch) carpet squares that can be assembled to create unique rugs, runners or wall-to-wall designs [...]
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Ashley Halligan from Software Advice has a nice piece on the all important subject of occupant behavior, here. Green building professionals often suffer from the same handicap as economists, we assume our subjects (the people in our buildings, the consumers in our economy) are purely logical robots. But of course, this is not the case. [...]
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(as originally posted by: Tork News) Even since LEED for Healthcare was launched in 2010, I’ve fielded a lot of questions about the best way to approach a sustainability program from a healthcare perspective. To benchmark the sustainability performance in a healthcare facility, it helps to have a framework that uses meaningful metrics to track performance. The following are [...]
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(as originally posted on: UrbanGreen) - A couple weeks back I attended “math night” at my kids’ school- when the parents hear about the math curriculum they can expect their children to be following in the coming year. (Bear with me- I promise this is relevant to green building.) The major focus of the evening were changes [...]
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(as originally posted on: UrbanGreen) - While politicians either sit on their hands or openly mock the consensus around climate change, the U.S. Army continues to move forward on its mission to reduce dependence on fossil fuel. Logic can be a terribly effective tool when you use it. - Yetsuh Frank, Director (add a comment)
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(as originally posted on: UrbanGreen) – NPR introduces a little sanity to the energy subsidy debate sparked by the Solyndra controversy when they outline the enormous amount of government funds received by the oil and gas industry, here. Strangely- those who point to the Solyndra bankruptcy as a clarion call to end subsidies for the renewable energy industry [...]
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(as originally posted by: Tork News) The ISSA Interclean trade show took place last week in Las Vegas. I took the opportunity to scan the show floor for any new trends in sustainability or hygiene that might be on display for paper, cleaning and hygiene products. In the past few years, companies seemed to be in an arms race [...]
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YR&G FIELDtrip
Visit to Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey Distillery Makers of the first Colorado-born whiskey Join YR&G for our upcoming FIELDtrip to explore sustainability in action, in and around the Denver Metro area. Wednesday, June 6th 5:00 – 6:00pm Tour 200 South Kalamath Street, Denver Followed by drinks at The Rackhouse Pub (attached to Stranahana’s) 208 South Kalamath [...]
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