Pictured above is our latest project – an 8,000 square foot free-standing urgent care medical facility prototype. This structure is designed with an eye toward balancing futuristic medical and information technology systems with the delivery of highly personalized, holistic and sympathetic medical services, both in an urgent care and family practitioner environment.
This project represents an [...]
One economist plus one journalist does not equal one scientist.
The authors of ‘SuperFreakonomics’ misguide the easily misguided contending that geo-engineering is the path to reversing climate change.
As aptly put by climate change writer Elizabeth Kolbert in New Yorker magazine –
“what’s most troubling about “SuperFreakonomics” isn’t the authors’ many blunders; it’s [...]
Third place winner of nationwide residential design competition sponsored by Custom Builder magazine. Read more>
For those of you who have followed the issue, or our newsletters, you know that conserving energy resources can be done for any one of several reasons. As we’ve stated on many occasions ‘it’s not just about climate change‘. The issue extends to national security, economic security and even personal health. So getting on board [...]
Link here to an article about coal fired power plants in China and the US. This article describes the relative efficiencies of coal as a source for the generation of electricity.
This chart represents the flow of energy as it is produced from natural resources and distributed to the 4 primary sectors where energy is used; electric power generation, residential and commercial use, industrial production and transportation.
While this chart and the backup report (available here) is 7 years old it is still relatively accurate in terms [...]