It's Friday night and time to get down and par-tay, right? So I drag my family to the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems where I can geek out and hear Pliny Fisk talk about some "heavy stuff". Those are his favorite words to use in a conversation and it IS heavy stuff. The Center is an action oriented think tank that specializes in life cycle planning and design. They approach buildings as living systems and their expertise is formidable. But what I really like about this Center is their accesibility. They are open to talk to anyone and everyone about any concept, idea, thought or opinion. Learning can happen anywhere and IF we're to get anywhere in the sustainability world we have to let that happen. We have to integrate - biologists have to talk to economists, social activists have to talk to environmental activists, corporations have to talk to nonprofits. The solutions to our current crisis are going to come from some unusual partnerships I think.
Check out their website: http://www.cmpbs.org/cmpbs.html
A few books that opened my mind to an integrated approach to environmental problems: Cradle to Cradle and The Economy of Nature.
Friday, May 2, 2008
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