Recent:
Bananas in Snow Country: A Benchmark Building’s Lessons for a Green Future: my slow-maturing but finally finished profile and reflections on an iconic green building. (May 2024)
hedging against and plunging in: a strong suggestion about what to do with feelings of desperation about climate change (February 2022)
Covid and shared air v2: a short discussion, with conclusions, about the chances of viral infection in closed spaces like classrooms and airplanes (August 2020)
The Great Turning and Great British Baking: a rumination on competition in a sustainable world (May 2020)
sustain-able and sustain-willing: a short essay for the Fall 2019 Groton School Quarterly
The Greening of Buildings, 2013-2025: slides for a talk at Fermilab, September 2019
Two Paths from Lab to Market: paper for Physics of Sustainable Energy IV (AIP Conference Proceedings 1924; 2018)
one degree in hurricane-days: a back-of-envelope estimate comparing energy stored in the atmosphere to energy released in a hurricane
Before 2016 (selected)
Pursuing Sustainability: 4 thoughts in 10 minutes: slides for a talk at Evergreen State College, February 2015
Sustainability in Practice: Building and Running 343 Second Street: extended case study of Packard Foundation Headquarters, Los Altos, California (October 2013)
Three short, directive pieces about approaching significant real-world problems; these are contributions to Douglas Schuler’s Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (MIT Press, 2008), here as presented in the Public Sphere web space (www.publicsphere.org)