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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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Smart, connected buildings currently promise more than they can deliver, at least if we don't pass the baton properly from design teams to operations teams.
by Rob Watson
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Two USA Today articles got plenty of attention by questioning whether LEED goes far enough. But they highlight the false -- but broad -- premise that only expensive steps qualify as truly green.
by Rob Watson
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It turns out that green buildings may not only boost your company's image, but also could grow your revenue. A new study finds higher financial performance in LEED-certified bank branches.
by Rob Watson
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You may have read that the Army is abandoning LEED. That's untrue. It's actually greening its buildings even more with a new building code on top of LEED.
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by Rob Watson
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I have the radical confidence to believe in a positive future, one in which our better instincts enable us to interpret the evidence presented by the laws of the planet so that all life on Earth can prosper.
by Rob Watson
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It's sort of cute how people in the world of finance consider themselves. Compared to the diamond-hard certainty of chemistry, biology and physics, the so-called "reality" of economics is about as substantial as tissue paper.<br />
by Rob Watson
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Last week, I wrote about how the goals of the system are reflected in its structure and that a very effective way of achieving different results is to change the system's structure. Changing the system’s goals is even more effective in making a difference.
by Rob Watson
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The ability to change and reorganize the system -- one of Donella Meadows' 12 leverage points for change -- is both one of the most difficult and most fundamentally important methods to make sustainability happen.
by Rob Watson
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I'm in West Virginia spending a week with 100 super bright-green teens at the Student Climate and Conservation Congress (SC3) for my annual renewal of hope -- and I'm getting what I came for.
by Rob Watson
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Rob Watson offers further perspective on the VERGE program in Shanghai, an overview of two new studies on green building opportunities and a tip of the hat to "Green Ideas, Green Actions" aka GIGA.
by Rob Watson
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I am gearing up for moderating the VERGE conference in Shanghai next week, so integration is on my mind
by Rob Watson
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I'm gearing up for the IBM Smarter Buildings Forum today in New York City and I've just spent two days with some of the most brilliant people in the world of building diagnostics, so information and intelligence are on my mind.
by Rob Watson
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In the environment, as in business, timing is critical. This is perhaps no more true than in the issue of anthropogenic climate change, and GreenBiz articles this week discuss the alarming news on carbon emissions and their impacts on cities.
by Rob Watson
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In Paris neighborhoods, the streets are lined with fresh vegetables stands, fruit stores, butchers, cheese stores. What's striking about these little shops is how local they are -- and it seems to me that we need a lot less urban in the environment and a lot more environment in the urban.
by Rob Watson
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The Yangtze River is at near-record low levels as the Mississippi River floods over its banks. What do these two waterways tell us about how buildings and countries alike will need to manage water use?
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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In today's contentious environment, everybody seems to have their own version of the truth. I wish there were a corollary to the effect of "and ignorance shall enslave you." And if not enslave, ignorance certainly shall lead us to make bad decisions.
by Rob Watson
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That, according to the Dalai Lama, is what we need to solve the world's environmental problems.
by Rob Watson
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It is something of a truism that if you don't make the easy choices, they become harder and sometimes stop being choices at all. What has been frustrating for me, and many others who have been in this space for a long time, is how blasted easy it is to make the right choices -- and yet we just don't seem to want to.
by Rob Watson
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There's a reason why LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Rob Watson explains.
by Rob Watson
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Green airports are in the news this week as the Indira Gandhi International Airport attains a LEED-Gold rating from the Indian Green Building Council and San Franciso International Airport opens a revamped terminal as a showcase for sustainable air travel.
by Rob Watson
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It seems to be a rite of spring for advocates of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative to go after each other about the relative credibility of each other’s forestry standards. This year the skirmishing has led eight companies to back away from the SFI label.
by Rob Watson
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I've been talking a lot about information management in this space lately for good reason: Information will be one of the key drivers and supporters of sustainability in the second decade of this century and beyond.
by Rob Watson
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After going to Japan in the aftermath of the '95 Kobe earthquake to promote green rebuilding efforts, what I learned was that people generally thought that rebuilding with green was a great idea, but also that the green plan needed to be in place BEFORE the disaster if there was any hope of implementing it....
by Rob Watson