February Monthly of Green Articles

Another month has come to a close, and even more than before, I'm both humbled and amazed by the green building community ... perspective -- thanks for your patience and kind nudging.  Tons of emails have been flagged and soon our team ... Developments & Projects: Zira Island Planned as Zero Energy City Clybourn Point Condos [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 04:39:06

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More About Soft Power and the U.S. Air Force

2nd of a 3-part series USNI Blog continues its talk with Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, USAF ... years and sharing medical studies with local health organizations. In addition, our team will often ... regulations). Working together with NGOs we’re ensuring our projects aren’t simply a hollow building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-18 13:00:40

UTEP's Cloudy teleVision

epic lines of sight small details puncture vision is this growing old Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies ... to see their team on television. I wrote last year about AggieVision and what the folks up in Las ... Wavers plus State Building Project Money equals Extra Athletic Department Dollars, which all equals [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 22:19:49

Mr Motivator

Born 2000 ft up in Manchester, Jamaica lived first 10 years in Pike, then in 1962 moved to the UK ... for Mr. Motivator to do Personal Appearances, sales conferences, Team Building and Motivational Talks are still high on his agenda. Promoting various products and projects are all part of his day to day [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 10:15:41

Agile is NOT a Project Management Methodology

A range of IT commentators are confusing a product development methodology with project management ... . This is no different to the need to plan and execute a building project differently if all of the walls ... in a collaborative environment and the overall team’s focus [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 07:56:44

A 19th Century Jail becomes 21st Century Hotel

Entrance Lobby Charles Street Jail of Boston, built in 1851, was active till 1990 ... ) came up theidea of redeveloping this jail.  Their idea: Convert the building into a four-star luxury ... of Historic Places, the team on the $150 million project worked closely with a bevy of agencies, including [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:27:47

5 Ways to Help Twestival Raise $1 Million

Mashable has partnered with Twestival to promote the world’s largest Twitter fundraising drive ... to charity:water, who in turn will ensure 100% of the donation reaches well building projects ... got no excuse not to be there! The events each have their own organizing team and individual [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 22:37:02

Andy Foster responds on indoor sports centre issue

Wellington city councillor Andy Foster has given me the following article explaining his stance on the indoor sports centre issue : ... asked a team of Ian Maskell (Project and Development Manager), Stephenson Turner (Architects), Dunning ... the cost of building 12 courts at the Concourse to be the same as Cobham Park - $46-47 million [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 18:33:32

How's That Leafy Green Nouvel Building Coming?

Two weeks before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, ... of Irvine-based developer SunCal's projects throughout California. One of those projects, according ... charrettes and SunCal’s team has also traveled to Paris for additional charrettes to refine the design [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 20:30:32

Cognition

3 pm eastern Cognition Two greatly gifted user experience professionals are contributing their time and talent to Happy Cog. ... , he spent more than a decade building sites, developing strategies, and leading projects for colleges ... office of Happy Cog will soon bear public fruit; we are delighted to have her on our team. Welcome [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 20:26:03

Project Finance Role

Team Lease is currently scouting for Manager /AVP/VP Infrastructure Advisory with a Leading Global Financial Institution ... , * Developing guidelines for capacity building * Monitoring and evaluation techniques, * Preparation of bid and contractual documents for outsourced consultants, * Liasioning with Financial [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 16:04:00

The Future is Here: Full-Scale Architectural Model from Revit Imported into a Virtual World

It happened exactly 1 year, to the day I first contacted Jani Pirkola former project manager of the Realxtend team ... , and was able to enjoy the best of both worlds by building those pieces with primitive objects using the in-world building tools.  This way, I could make immediate use of the model as a collaboration tool [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 19:05:29

Dan Lane’s for hire: Need help with your mobile tech?

I’ve been badgering Dan to write an overview piece about himself ever since he took a step back from Howler ... telecoms and mobile product ideas, building a team and working with them to bring those ideas to market ... . Thus, if you need a technical action man, Dan is he. He’s relatively available for new projects [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 11:47:44

Super SBS 2008 Build Event

The Sacramento SMB IT Pro User Group is helping to sponsor a LIVE SBS 2008 "Build" for the entire world ... team> - Peter Gallagher (Microsoft TS2 team) - Amy Babinchak (managing partner of Third Tier ... at www.smbnation.com SMB Books: - 10 copies of the Super-Good Project Planner for Technical Consultants [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 14:04:00

Eurus Energy to Build 1 MW Solar Plant in Cali

Eurus Energy is no rookie in the world of renewable energy, but up until recently, wind had been its resource of choice ... ventured into solar power with the creation of a new team focused on building large-scale ... process often lead to delays), Eurus said it expects to complete the project by 2010, according [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 15:26:48

Un offre d'emploi d'une entreprise francaise a Wuhan (parmi Fortune 500)

Bonjour Tous, Je m'appelle Sabrina, d'un cabinet de recrutement HRLofty, avec le siege a Shanghai ... for a dynamic young entrepreneur to join Our client and take on a strategic role in the Building Materials ... with the Executive Director and the local leadership team on key business projects, and monitor the progress [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 06:21:17

Innovation: the Need for Failure-Tolerant Leadership

There are many good examples that if a great team that worked on a failed project is kept together their next project will be a success.   For this you need a failure-tolerant culture.  A guide to building a successful failure ... back in 1993 "Building the Learning Organization". For those of you whose reaction is "The Learning [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 10:48:00

First Impressions

Yesterday morning saw Tim and I braving the elements and daring to set off for a visit to the Snaith and Selby Circuit ... introductions but made it in time to join the staff team and two of the Circuit Stewards for a pub ... Church. Jointly they call themselves Wistow Church. The building is an ongoing project, but again [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 21:35:11

The newsletter for February: Constraints, LIFT and more

We just sent out our first newsletter for this year (there was none for January) ... . The Sandbox team wishes you an excellent 2009! The world economy, however, didn’t get off to a great ... that we will focus almost entirely on the one thing that is at the core of our project: building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 13:10:24

New Steps to Toughen Government Cybersecurity

The Obama Administration took office promising a major effort to protect the government's networks from attack. In part, the new team is building on efforts already in progress and today, one of the more important projects bore fruit with the... [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 14:07:33

Blue Ridge Food Ventures is expanding

News release follows. Blue Ridge Food Ventures is a real success story for Asheville and WNC: The economy may be weak but revenue-building opportunities for farmers, food businesses ... the geographic reach of the Farm Outreach Program team. The project manager, now expanded to a full [more...]

Date: 2009-02-05 21:32:01

Motorcycle designers expanding, while working in secret

It's nice to hear that, economic downturn aside, some design companies are still expanding ... building up an impressive portfolio of projects and an equally enviable client list. Although most major motorcycle manufacturers have their own in-house design team they often employ the services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:33:53

Berkman MediaCloud tracks feeds ‘n’ memes

The Berkman Center has launched one of its most exciting projects ... ) on it, and is building a gigantic database so researchers can see how ideas and information move ... are much greater, and the Media Cloud team is actively looking for other researchers who will bring [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 13:52:47

Social Media Series: Susan Abbott on Bridging New & Old

This week's guest for Flooring The Consumer's Social Media Series: Bridging New & Old is Susan Abbott ... information, visibility, brand building – haven’t changed that much. After becoming a consultant, I proposed a blog to a client as a way for a large project team to keep in touch, share success [more...]

Date: 2009-02-04 22:36:00

Barack Obama In White House: What Next?

Now that the din and bustle surrounding the Presidential Inaugural ceremony, etc, has settled and Barack Obama and his team have begun to move around in the corridors of power ... to take action as we see fit; steer clear of open-ended nation-building projects, except where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 13:09:50

Live LexBlog blogs for the week of 3/5-3/6

It'd be very difficult to match the record ten blogs we managed to launch last week but the team did manage to come close, ... energy , regulation counseling, land development and sustainable building. Duets Blog ... 's second project with LexBlog. This blog provides information [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 00:25:38

Cell Phone Journalism and Better Democratic Decision-Making: What Do We Measure?

How do you build a culture of participation? What does it mean to empower people to participate in projects and politics that might improve their ... the team that won the Knight Foundation Challenge Grant, has blogged extensively about this project ... that allows two-way communication between the town's [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 06:39:17

Project Sanctuary provides retreat for military families

by Sharon Foster American Forces Press Service 2/12/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) ... the family as a whole. Combining medical and psychological services with group dynamics, team building ... in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The retreats will be co-hosted by the YMCA of the Rockies at the Snow [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 18:01:11

What About the Space Exploration Crisis? NASA Budget Could be Cut to Save Money

... NASA and the Obama transition team deny. Regardless, there is tension building, especially ... as a luxury rather than a necessity, policy changes interfere with long-term projects, and the NASA [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 04:56:11

Joho the Blog » everythingIsMiscellaneous 2009-03-11 13:52:47

Berkman MediaCloud tracks feeds ‘n’ memes The Berkman Center has launched one of its most exciting projects ... ) on it, and is building a gigantic database so researchers can see how ideas and information move ... are much greater, and the Media Cloud team is actively looking for other researchers who will bring [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 13:52:47

Un offre d'emploi d'une entreprise francaise a Wuhan (parmi Fortune 500)

Bonjour Tous, Je m'appelle Sabrina, d'un cabinet de recrutement HRLofty, avec le siege a Shanghai ... young entrepreneur to join Our client and take on a strategic role in the Building Materials ... ; - Work closely with the Executive Director and the local leadership team on key business projects [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 06:54:34

Green Breaking News : 4,000 gallon Solar Hot Water System Hits the Caribbean!

With Zager Plumbing & Solar Inc.’s team of talented employees, experience, along with the qualifications to design/ build and meet all specifications required per project, this company is on their solar way. [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 19:54:49

Competitions & Opportunities: Team Up with Apartment Therapy for DIY Month

Spread the word! Our pals over at Apartment Therapy are hosting a competition during February called Do It Now where they invite you to tackle one small household project: painting a bureau, rewiring your home theater, building an organizer for all your cooking spices, whatevering a whatever. We here at Etsy are dangling some tantalizing [more...]

Date: 2009-02-03 20:16:00

Hanselminutes Podcast 136 - MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference

My one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth podcast is up. Well, actually a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to update my website with the details ... know it was there. Scott talks to each team at length and gets the scoop on what project are coming to an IDE near ... . Telerik is our sponsor for this show! Building quality software is never easy. It [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 23:45:34

Origin: Marc Ngui

This is part of a new series of posts that will interview what we at Come Up To My Room think of as the  greatest designers, ... of budgets, building codes and the laws of physics. My final project at school was a comic that tried it’ ... /culture - as a story or founding myth might suggest - rather than the design of a team of specialists [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 18:47:37

The Show: Coe&Waito’s Nest

This is part of a new series of posts that will interview what we at Come Up To My Room think of as the  greatest designers, ... of budgets, building codes and the laws of physics. My final project at school was a comic that tried it’ ... /culture - as a story or founding myth might suggest - rather than the design of a team of specialists [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 01:11:18

Exciting PT finance work with Int’l Nonprofit (Courthouse metro)

Part Time Accounting CoordinatorLocation: ArlingtonFLSA Classification: Non-exempt Status: Part-time (20 hours/week) ... Rare projects are managed by local partners; our focus is on building community support ... of the PositionThis part time role on the finance team at Rare is an excellent opportunity for a high [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 09:40:40

March Madness

March Madness March Madness, aka the countdown to Integrated Project presentations in May, ... , designed, oversaw, and assembled the Administration Building's showcase. But in fairness to all concerned, this extra credit activity was a team venture; these students are aces at collaboration [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 23:46:23

Smart Grids Go Island Hopping in Europe

IBM said today it joined a smart grid project in Denmark that’s aiming to upgrade the country’s electric transmission grid to handle the ... of its energy from wind power, will allow the EDISON team to look at how the grid functions ... smart grid project for Big Blue. Earlier this month , the company said it was planning to build [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 19:00:13

Getting in the team spirit

As a designer I work with a writer as a creative partner on most of my projects ... . In this situation, I find that the collaboration results in building on top of each other’s ideas and yielding solid work.I really prefer working with another person to a team. It can be difficult [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 05:59:25

Will Green Building Survive a Recession?

Writer Lisa Selin Davis asks on Grist this week: .. ... Environment Team, wrote to me. And while this current economic situation has stalled some projects ... be the equivalent of a biodynamic, $8 a pound plum? Industry leaders say not so much: Certainly green building [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:21:20

Enterprise Architecture: How many meetings do you attend in a day...

Scheduling meetings for a late project makes it later... Let's go around the table ... much wasted time occurs. Imagine if we could equip all the conference rooms in your building ... productive things to do is to get representatives of the development team and the end users together [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 13:12:29

Welcome to the new Social Signal

Valentine's Day celebrates the power of relationships. We're celebrating with a Social Signal relaunch ... thinking, services and team. When Social Signal launched in 2005 as a web company focused exclusively on online community projects, the term "social media" had yet to be coined.  Our approach to building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 22:48:09

35,000 Photos, Clever Projection Mapping Creates Stunning Experimental Film

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo . When we talk about “digital” process, it’s often mixing real, ... , or building your own speakers, or finding physical interfaces. In visuals, it’s finding ways ... team, thanks. [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 04:07:54

“After the town pays off the initial bonds required for the online gaming gadgets school,” said Demonte Wessendorf, “a very slight increase to local taxes will be added to fund operations”

“We’re excited to announce ground-breaking on our city’s newest project, ... by architect Wolle Aceves are approved by the online gaming gadgets school’s building and grounds ... to be operational next Spring, we will have plenty of space for people to recreate and enjoy team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 08:25:18

Putting Our Plane on the Runway

Printcasting, our Knight News Challenge project to democratize print publishing, entered closed beta last week ... , writing FAQs, giving live demos and building lists of potential citizen publishers, bloggers and businesses for our outreach plan. We've even brought a new person into our team, Tom Webster [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 01:24:09

Building MMOG’s for the Flash Player: Intro

We’ve started work on a huge MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) project with a U.S. based games publisher. It’s supposed to go live after summer this year, and we’ve already got a big team working ... . As we really wanted our games to be playable by everyone on the net without installing anything [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 09:27:25

Sanyo, Nippon Oil Team Up for Thin-film Solar Cells

Written by Josie Garthwaite No CommentsPosted January 23rd, 2009 at 1: ... to invest 20 billion yen (about $225 million) building a factory for the venture, called Sanyo Eneos ... , Oceania and — if President Barack Obama’s promised stimulus projects get under way — the United [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:30:17

Controversial Walentas Dock Street Project Gets First Okay

The emails that David and Jed Walentas' controversial Dock Street development in Dumbo had been approved by Community ... is just a recommendation, but it's one step closer for team Walentas to getting this lurking mass approved. For everyone in DUMBO, say goodbye to seeing the Brooklyn Bridge, as this building [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:09:45

Surge of Nerds Rebuilds Afghanistan

Over this past month, a group of motivated geeks traveled to Osama bin Laden's old stomping grounds in Afghanistan to help oversee a novel project: ... -scale workshop and rapid prototyping facility where local participants can learn new technology skills ... . Total cost? Around $40,000 (not including donated time and security work ). Fab Lab team leader [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 16:41:00

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