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My opinions on the Energy proposals

I like Obamas proposal to invest $150 billion dollars in tried and true renewables over 10 years. McCains emphasis is on electric cars, but this idea to try to encourage a better battery to come out of the lab in Michigan has its risks(of not happening.

Some of the other proposals to [...]

The opposite of Sustainable is Apocalyptic

Many people believe in a utopia either in this world or the next. Fundamentalist religious or other narrowing beliefs, seem to relate to repression and violence. And this has probably been true for many thousands of years, like a cancer on the human condition. Today we [...]

USA is falling behind

Well, here we are, 2008 and the political will to change energy consumption patterns in the USA is still “Do nothing Know nothing”. Blame the politicians and the gridlock in Washington for that. Until we get some strong leadership at the federal level, we will have to coast on the strength (or weaknesses) of [...]

The policy of green design

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas Jefferson

Green = sustainable
IMPLIES
Not green =

OUR LEADERSHIP in government

“Slowly it turned. Inch by inch.” Movement [...]

Small is Beautiful

More than ever, E.F. Shumacher was right!
Small_is_Beautiful

Federal Reserve Chairman presiding over the massive correction in housing prices
in other words
Central banker Ben Bernanke, is bursting the bubble because he has to, and besides, he is [...]

A/E Design business and a few links to reading on it

The links on the right are expanding bit by bit. I have discovered and added a very important link about design process metrics. It deals with the economics of design.

Bill for Value and Profit by Michael Webber. Fascinating reading about the main asset of architectural and engineering design consultants, people. ‘Managing A/E design: metrics for time and cost control’.

As it happens, all the businesses I have run, failed in the first 6 months, so Continue reading A/E Design business and a few links to reading on it

Walter Schirra, Jr., NASA Astronaut, 1923-2007

Wally Schirra, a hero to me as a young boy, rocketed into space three times, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini AND Apollo space programs, has died at the age of 84. He also co-anchored space flight coverage with Walter Cronkite, on CBS, from 1969-75.

He noticed environmental damage to our atmosphere every [...]

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