Heavy stuff

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.

Its not easy being green

In celebration of Earth Day, 2008 I'm starting my first blog! Ushering me into the modern world and all its wonders/conflicts. This blog is my personal journal of thoughts, experiences, questions and concerns in thirty years of living in and studying the natural world that surrounds us all. But out of necessity we can't sit back, observe and enjoy all the intricacies of life. We have to fight for it. I am on my own path to figure out how that's done. How do we recreate the built environment that we've imposed on the natural? And how do we make sure this process is equitable and involves every single one of us? SO please sit down and let's talk about what we can do. Each one of us. Juntos SI SE PUEDE.