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Steve Jobs's Lessons for the Home Performance Industry
Home performance is to Apple as standard building practices are to the generic PC industry. We, the adherents to the whole house, high quality approach to assessing and managing the performance of homes, are Apple. The standard, old school, business-as-usual approach to building and renovating homes is the rest of the computer industry.
This idea got seeded after reading James Stewart's article,…
ContinueAdded by Peter Troast on October 11, 2011 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
Green Jobs - Do They Have to Have a Color?
In this economy does it really matter what color our jobs are? Seriously. There are dark agents afoot. Lurking. Obstructing the possible creation of new jobs based on "green" technology or "green" principals (i.e. "work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development (R&D), administrative, and service activities that contribute(s) substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality...") at all costs. There is a green… Continue
Added by Mark Richardson on November 8, 2010 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments
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