Author Archives: Kristen L. Victor, LEED AP
Have you heard the latest at Sustainability Matters?
In Southern California, our summer months have been filled with an abundance of sunshine and heat, causing awareness and reduction of energy and water usage due to rising costs and limited resources. At Sustainability Matters, this summer has provided us … Continue reading
Sustainable Logistics
Written by Licia Angino, Director of Logistics and Compliance What is logistics? Ask 3 different people how they would define logistics and they most likely will give you 3 different answers. Ask 10 people, and most likely, no two responses … Continue reading
U.S. is better, stronger and faster than anywhere else in the world…
In May 2012 Newsweek, Daniel Gross writes “Listen, the U.S.is better, stronger and faster than anywhere else in the world”. With the economic humiliations our country has endured over recent years and the magnitude of the economic fall there was … Continue reading
Sustainability Matters® and Social Equity
Art4Arc, a community partner of Sustainability Matters®, is a non-profit organization run by local high school students enriching the lives of disabled adults with art lessons in their community garden. Art4Arc will be competing against other high school students in … Continue reading
Restorative and Regenerative Living Systems
I recently had the pleasure to spend an evening and following day with Bill Reed, principal of Regenesis Inc. and co-author of The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability ,discussing the depths of integrative design … Continue reading
Ecology and Commerce
In the past few weeks I have been surrounded and inspired by co-learners, all working towards the promise of business to increase the well being of human-kind through service, creative invention and ethical action. We have initiated a new era … Continue reading
9 Strategies to End Corporate Rule
Amend the constitution to end corporate person-hood Dive into grassroots campaigns. Hold corporations accountable to our laws. Get past the propaganda. Support Indy media and keep the Internet free. Protect the commons Vote. Protect our democracy. Make your dollars matter. … Continue reading
US Companies Cannot Compete with Countries
In President Obama’s State of the Union address he spoke to reviving manufacturing in America, which is a complex problem involving political parties, taxes, regulatory policies, exchange rates and educational skills. When you move from high level policy to specific … Continue reading
bioPCM Complies with Living Building Challege Materials Red List
“Increasing the thermal mass in buildings is one of the most overlooked solutions to our global energy crisis. In this sense Phase Change Materials represent an important part of our world’s future thermal management systems.” –Dr. Rusty Sutterlin, PCM Scientist, … Continue reading
Bullitt Foundation Strives for Living Building Challenge Certification Lead by Miller Hull Partnership
An office building wearing what looks like a wide brim sun hat? It is a solar-panel array topping off the six-story home for the Bullitt Foundation, reflecting founder Dorothy Bullitt’s aspiration to turn the Pacific Northwest into a global model … Continue reading