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Category: sustainability
Is regulatory uncertainty really slowing sustainability?
While checking my Twitter feed before leaving to catch my train, I saw the following status from SustAbility: I find this status interesting because I’ve seen this notion a couple of times in the past few days that regulatory uncertainty is slowing sustainability. Actually, this argument has been advanced often in the past few years. …
What does it take to deploy green infrastructure? ASLA and U.S. EPA take a shot at making suggestions…
It has been widely argued that “green” infrastructure projects can provide more cost-effective control of stormwater runoff through the use of natural design features that reduce the required design capacity of the “gray” infrastructures. George Washington University has been a first-mover in this regard, developing an underutilized space called “Square 80” into a low-impact development…
can “technology organization(s) with trucks” save us from ourselves?
while reading my feedly sources last night, a suggestion to follow a blog called Green OR popped up. “green” and “operations research” are two of my favorite terms, so of course i clicked on their timeline. you should definitely check out ian frommer’s blog when you can. the very first post up discusses the role…
the “energy of innovation”
GWU’s Frank Sesno hosts Planet Forward’s special episode on “The Energy of Innovation.” I found this especially encouraging, and even had the Lakers game on mute while I was listening. I was even able to convince another resident that we should not increase the volume on the game in our apartment building’s club room, while…
#64 van jones at powershift
i heard a clip of van jones’s powershift keynote while listening to amy goodman while getting out the door yesterday morning. i’m still processing his words, but he said something that i found very important to study: “our economy runs on death. every day we pull death out of the ground and burn it”… here’s…
i own this…
I took a detour on my way to work this morning by walking across the Capitol directly catch the Orange/Blue lines. [I don’t like crowds, and if you’ve been in Union Station with broken escalators between 7.45-8.45AM, you might sympathize.] Halfway to the station, I looked up and this is what I saw: I remember…
#58
Today, I just finished an awesome book, Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely. Prof. Ariely, MIT Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics, describes many ways in which we predictably and systematically violate the usual “rational actor” assumptions of classical economics. He shows examples from his research demonstrating how arousal, desire for uniqueness [or conformity], temptation, social norms,…
#56
in my opinion, the most alarming piece of news today will probably not get one one-millionth the press as detroit’s greater grace temple’s prayer service over the life of the suv. [i understand why we would pray for the survival of the detroit auto industry, but parking suv’s and luxury cars on the pulpit of…
Will Natural Capitalism Be Vindicated?
while i have not posted on my blog for a long time, two news events (or opinions) today are irresistible. let’s start with thomas friedman’s “While Detroit Slept.” in short, friedman obviously thinks the bailout of GM, Chrysler, and the other “Big” 3 might possibly be the worst investment we can make as american taxpayers….