At the same time as our climate crisis, there is an epidemic of loneliness. This is not a coincidence.
A Grown Up Guide to Making Friends and Saving The Planet
Climate & Energy
Degrowth is not a dirty word.
Hooray, I launched my YouTube channel! Check out my first video, which is based on my article “Degrowth and the Courage to Speak Directly.”
Degrowth and the Courage to Speak Directly
We make far more than we actually need, so the answer to mitigating environmental degradation would be to make less, to only make what we need and what promotes our well-being. That’s the key idea of degrowth… So, why is the use of the word such a controversy?
Everywhere & Nowhere
I have an obsession with books about the history of food. I love to learn about how a cuisine developed because it tells the story of the region’s geology, soil, rivers, culture, religion, politics, wars, architecture, technology… I recently read The Food of France (1958) by Waverley Root, and it unexpectedly brought me to tears.
In My Process Industries Era
Our sustainable, decarbonized future will still require stuff. Maybe less of it (hopefully less of it), but as long as society continues to need materials and things to be made, there will be process industries, and there will be manufacturing. It is a worthwhile area to focus on improving.
Who gets to be a building stakeholder?
How often are we talking to all the individual people who spend their day sitting in our office buildings, working the lines in our factories, tending to patients in our hospitals, and cleaning the rooms in our hotels? How often are we walking alongside the people who will be materially affected by the decision to invest in, for example, indoor air quality solutions? How often are we aiding them as they demand improved health, safety, and sustainability from their employers and the establishments they patronize?
Bridging the gap, a young woman’s vision for the smart buildings industry
Good news everyone! I am now a contributing editor for automatedbuildings.com. Below is my introductory post on the site. You can check out the original …
The Climate Crisis Everything Bagel
The size of the problem that is the climate crisis and the possibilities of everything I could be doing at any moment to stop it are overwhelming. I am so paralyzed by what there is to do and by what I have left undone that I let myself get sucked into an everything bagel of nihilism.
Survival of the Sustainable
When discussing sustainability in buildings, the conversation is usually dominated by how much a business can save in operational expenditures. While that is a compelling reason to decarbonize one’s building, there is a larger business opportunity beyond energy efficiency.