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Big money from big corporations threatens the little guy

Check out Thom Hartmann’s excellent book “Unequal Protection“. Excellent treatise on how corporate politics has dominated the nation going back to before the revolution. In fact, the American revolution was brought on by the American resentment of a British massive company, the “East India Company”, owned by the royal family, which suppressed the [...]

Sweet ending to a beautiful opera

Finale to Les Miserables

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THE LAST ENERGY CRISIS- 1970s and a B.S. Environmental Design

I have a BS ED, which is a science that encompasses the junction between engineering and architecture. My expertise is in buildings and how they work. I focused all my career on design of the built environment and building systems. I was educated in energy conservation, neighborhood [...]

Energy Engineering for your world

Noel Susskind, PE, LEED AP is an experienced mechanical engineer and building energy expert ready to
serve you. Commercial, government, educational and healthcare facilities are a focus.
He will:

Serve as a high level resource on the latest science and art of building, or introduce you to one. Knowledge includes minimizing building energy (carbon) footprint via [...]

New directions – a new web site

I am starting a new business with my wife, Wendy, rehabilitating distressed homes in northern Virginia. If you have an older home in the metro DC and NOVA region that needs some care, call me. We have not come up with a name for this effort yet.

LEED for Homes connects to [...]

Drinking From a Fire Hose

Learning about new software can be exciting and daunting all at once.

I am talking about the new and improved version of Autodesk Revit MEP that came out in April last year and was updated massively in the fall.

I am learning a lot from a variety of sources, among them, the Revit groups [...]

Laid off and re-evaluating industry direction

Having been laid off from my job earlier this month, and subsequently injuring my back, I have had time to re-evaluate this situation. I had an excellent position at TOLK engineers, but the construction business is falling down like it is 1932. So its tough, and time to get moving. [...]

Change has Come to America

A new American president was sworn in today. Thank you Mr. Obama, for taking the job.
May your leadership find only the greatest success!
We have a lot of work to do, but we are ready, willing and [...]

Growing up

As a young man, I became familiar with pollution first hand. I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. The air that came my way in South Jersey, downwind from the big factories in Philly, was obviously and visibly polluted throughout my childhood in the 1960s and early 70s. The creek near my [...]

Semantics of Green vs. Sustainable ?

The use of the term “Green” as it applies to buildings has been increasing month after month, year after year. The same applies to so-called “sustainable”. But by what measure is any BUILDING green or sustainable?

Green and sustainable have been relatively underdeveloped concepts until the last 10 years. [...]