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Sponsored story: The grid of the future is taking shape. It will be networked and distributed, and building-integrated photovoltaic products will help to pave the way.
by Rob Watson
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Japan's move to reconsider, if not scrap, its nuclear energy program has led to an at-times-encouraging discussion about not just why to replace nuclear, but what to replace it with. Hint: Energy efficiency is going to be critical.
by Rob Watson
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<font><font size='2'>One silver lining in the dark clouds of our current economic conditions is how people are turning to simple, low-cost measures that can save tons of energy and money. Sometimes being forced to get lean makes you realize how fat you really are. Our obese existing building stock is being forced to get on the treadmill and the patient we save may end up being our own economy.<br />
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by Rob Watson
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A mosque proposed near Ground Zero in New York has prompted great anger and may never be built. Sometimes you need to stand up to "mad" and other times you need to respect the sentiments behind the anger. This seems like one of those times to stand up to "mad" because if we don't, we become that which we abhor.
by Rob Watson
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I had a great day Wednesday . . . just learning. This welcome input-heavy respite came courtesy of the two-day GreenBuildingsNY conference.
by Rob Watson
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Originally, I thought I was going to continue building on my Chicago post-occupancy study rant on energy modeling for this week’s column, but then I realized that: 1) I need a break from being a pissant; and 2) I've got a lot to be thankful for.<br />
by Rob Watson
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The Greenbuild buzz built up from the kick-off celebration continued through Thursday's sessions, the day satisfied on an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual level: A "health-based" outcome if I ever experienced one.
by Rob Watson
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<font><font size='2'>I was in Jerusalem attending the Israeli Presidential Conference 2009: Facing Tomorrow. It was very exciting to see the path-breaking new technologies coming out here in energy, water and information management. </font></font>
by Rob Watson
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As a season, autumn is the time of nature's preparation to renew or reinvent itself. It's also my favorite season. I love the colors, the smells, the intermingling of summer's warm, soft air with winter's steely crispness. There is something anticipatory about the fall.
by Rob Watson
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Changing the rules -- so long as the infrastructure exists to enforce those rules -- is the most effective leverage point in the "conventional" toolkit of effecting change.
by Rob Watson