Category Archives: Old Stuff
Straw Homes and Cultural Expectations
Another old one I just dug up from 1998, discussing the then briefly popular fad among green building extremists of building the exterior walls of homes with straw bales: Straw Homes and Cultural Expectations, Crest Green Building List Serve … Continue reading
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The Moral Priorities Of Environmentalism
Another bit from the archives: In a 1998 list serve discussion with a truly amazing group of green building pioneers, we got into a philosophical conversation about priorities at the most fundamental level: what should take priority in our work, … Continue reading
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Is The Problem Productivity Or Corruption?
The following is part of an exchange with my dad in 2006 in response to a friend of his asserting that modern efficiency and productivity were destroying jobs. IS THE PROBLEM PRODUCTIVITY OR CORRUPTION? – 2006 I prefer to live … Continue reading
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The Poverty Of Kings And The Source Of Our Amazing Prosperity
The following is edited from part of an exchange with several folks anguishing over environmental degradation and economic equity on an on-line forum in 2002 THE POVERTY OF KINGS AND OUR AMAZING PROSPERITY – 2002 It seems that the most … Continue reading
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Free Market Solution To Detergent Pollution
The following was part of an exchange on greenbuilding@crest.org in 1998 in response to the following request from Seth Melchert: To better illustrate your various positions, can we do an online charrette? Take the laundry detergent we were discussing some … Continue reading
Lessons From Two Decades Around NESEA
The following was published in the Northeast Sun, the journal of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association in 2003, the year I served as the chair of NESEA’s Building Energy Conference LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO DECADES AROUND NESEA As the chair … Continue reading
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War, Energy And The Choices We Make
The following letter was published in a few newspapers in March 2003 just as America was invading invade Iraq while prominent politicians were hypocritically blocking the development of Cape Wind while proclaiming their support for renewable energy. Alas, six years … Continue reading
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Old Stuff
Starting a blog is an interesting experience. Trying to figure out how to deal with all the old stuff that might give folks a sense of context for what comes next. So, I am creating a category called old stuff … Continue reading
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