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Against the backdrop of recent awareness-building events designed to bolster against the political sludge oozing out of Washington DC, I spent Friday, April 28th at the 11th Annual Summit on Sustainability at the Getty Center, put together by the Los Angeles Business Council. There was no shortage of powerful rhetoric, but there was a new flavor of […]

Numbers are powerful. They provide context, status, and proximity to goals. They can be used to shame or celebrate.  Often they are presented as irrevocable facts, but we can ‘work’ numbers to get them to tell our story, or to uncover one that has remained silent for too long. It’s argued that data is the […]

In advance of MGBCE on April 20th I’ve been talking to keynote speakers about what’s on their minds and what drives their work, bouncing these ideas off other conversations I’ve been having.  In a previous blog I stated that cities are structured locally and that they are the engines of change in the world. I […]

Last week focused on the need for a language decoder ring to help us determine whether sustainability is a concept, a framework, or a movement. This week we tackle the term resilience. Look in the dictionary and there are a variety of definitions of the word. Even more so, the synonyms: elastic, springy, flexible, supple, […]

EcoMap, Eco-Tech Makerspace, Tours & Greening Businesses Demonstrate  Useful, Replicable, Teachable & Community-Driven Projects   LOS ANGELES (April 12, 2017) The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles chapter (USGBC-LA) has received the Los Angeles County Green Leadership Award for a nonprofit agency for its 2016 campaign “Road to Greenbuild”. The campaign was prepared over months to showcase sustainable […]

Last week this series focused on some of the roles we take on and those facets of ourselves that we highlight to get our job done. This week I am thinking about the words and phrases that we use that tell others what we believe in and the roles we represent. You can join the […]

Last week I introduced the journey that I’m on, interviewing thought-leaders in the field of sustainability about the challenges and opportunities they see as they work to create connected cities that work, which also happens to be the theme of the upcoming MGBCE conference. This series highlights some of the emerging themes and unique perspectives […]

I’m an LA native, and what’s more rare is that my parents are natives as well. You’d think I know my city, but lately I’m seeing it as if it’s new to me. In reality, it is I who is new. Most of my career I’ve been an educator, in the business of inspiring others […]

Enduring, Replicable Project by T4T.org Upcycles Waste Materials donated by Local Manufacturers Los Angeles, CA (March 18, 2016) Last night, the U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles (USGBC-LA) Chapter announced the selection of the S.T.E.A.M.-centric Eco-Tech Maker Space  as the Legacy Project, which will be unveiled for Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in  Los Angeles. The […]