Archive for September, 2008
How Twenty Miles Saved a City (The Hurricane Ike Edition, Part 1)
While people in most parts of the United States welcome the arrival of summer, those of us living along the Gulf Coast and in the coastal communities of the Southeast note the season’s arrival with a certain amount of anxiety, and mark its passing with a sense of relief. It’s not so much the heat [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Questioning Assumptions
There are times when we stumble into our lessons.
A few years ago, when I was first getting my feet wet as a campus sustainability professional, I was unexpectedly called upon in the middle of a design meeting for a new building and asked to lead a conversation about energy efficiency. As my mind began to [...]
