Reflecting on Integrity, Opportunity, and Process in Home Performance
Reflecting on Integrity, Opportunity, and Process in Home Performance The past several years have been a crazy journey for me. Today is my 37th birthday, and I feel rather contemplative. I’m beginning...
View ArticleBreakfast Joint Lessons in Good Culture
I love this little breakfast joint near me called Jim’s Open Kitchen Too. The whole staff is always happy and working hard. It may be the best culture of anyplace I’ve ever been to. It strikes me...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t There More Home Performance Contractors?
Home Performance (HP) is the art and science of making a home a wildly comfortable, healthy, long lasting, and efficient place to live. Asthma in children can be substantially reduced. Allergies can be...
View ArticleTough Questions for Energy Efficiency Program Managers
Tough Questions. I had a conversation yesterday with an old friend who has switched jobs and is now heading up a new utility efficiency program. It’s supposed to be cutting edge, if not bleeding edge....
View ArticleIt Was a Very Good Year
2015 Was a Very Good Year, 2016 Will Be Better I’ve always loved the Frank Sinatra song ‘It Was a Very Good Year’. I especially love the strings. Many have told me I was born 70 years too late because...
View ArticleMy Vision for the Home Performance Industry
It’s time to push for real change and create a market for Home Performance. Here’s my plan. As consumers, we typically have control over two major fuel users – our cars and our homes. Tesla is working...
View ArticleI’m Calling Bull**** on Greenies
I’m Calling Bull**** on Greenies This morning I got yet more confirmation that people who say they want to reduce their carbon footprint are full of crap. It was the 5th time that a “green” client has...
View ArticleMaking Efficient Homes Worth More with Energy Use Intensity
What if more efficient homes were worth more? What if it was easy to find out how much energy a home uses and how much that energy costs? It could unlock a whole new market that doesn’t exist today...
View ArticleWorking with President Trump on Cleantech and Efficiency
Yes, at first it seems antithetical: those of us in the Cleantech and Energy Efficiency worlds are going to need to work with President Trump. There is untilled common ground, and right now I believe...
View ArticleWe Did the Climate March, Now What?
Sound and Fury… I went to the People’s Climate March in Washington DC on April 29th. It drew about 200,000 people. That’s pretty remarkable. A triumph of grassroots organizing. Unlike most marches, we...
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