Join me this Wednesday, February 27th for all all-star line-up of green building professionals hosted by the Sales and Marketing Council at the MBA King and Snohomish Counties HQ in Bellevue, WA. This lively breakfast discussion will help you understand the green advantage – much more than just a few energy upgrades – and how
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Last month, I joined a like-minded group for a Port of Seattle community-education tour, this one down the five-mile-long Duwamish River. Still a work in progress, this Superfund site now supports a healthy salmon run, a multitude of bird life, seals and even sea lions. The tour showcased a real National Geographic turnaround – but
A Living Building is a Learning Building Thanks to an invite by the Seattle AIA and its COTE, I learned firsthand about the inspiring, work-in-progress Bullitt Center. The presentation and hard-hat tour was an amazing opportunity to learn about this six-story, commercial building located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood – an area of Seattle known
Are you a member of a neighborhood business chamber or have experience with a regional Chamber of Commerce? Are you implementing corporate sustainability, environmental stewardship and systems thinking into your organization, committees or discussions? Here are a few effective, chamber-level programs we recently uncovered: • Consider membership in a green, mission-based business chamber – the
This weekend I had the privilege of participating in the 2010 Green Festival in Seattle. This event happens in five cities around the country and is jointly produced by Green America and Global Exchange. While several luminaries of the environmental and corporate mission-driven world were in attendance to provide keynotes and classes one of the
Van Jones did not disappoint as the keynote at the Climate Solutions 2nd Annual Fundraiser breakfast in Seattle this morning. He evoked the oil spill disaster in the Gulf as a learning opportunity and catalyst for moving us away from fossil fuels and towards a national climate policy. Jones stated that we are now paying
It seems that April was my Clean Tech learning month. Last week I rounded out the trend by attending an area breakfast and program on the subject hosted by The Economic Development Council of Snohomish County. The program included several keynotes, with three panelists who focused on clean tech in the state, in Tri-Cities and