Three weeks ago, I’m standing in Maria Santos’ kitchen at 7 AM, watching her make coffee using electricity generated by her own solar panels, with water she collected from last…
Last week I got an email from a colleague at another university asking about formaldehyde emissions in kitchen cabinets. She’d been getting headaches in her newly renovated kitchen and suspected…
Got another one of those calls yesterday. An architect from Phoenix, totally overwhelmed by sustainable material options for a library project. “Patricia,” she said, “I’ve got seventeen different insulation samples…
I was standing in a conference room last month, watching a contractor examine a sample of cork board insulation like it might bite him. “This stuff actually works?” he asked,…
My phone buzzed at 6:47 AM last Tuesday with a text from Marcus, a contractor I’ve worked with for three years: “Need your brain. Client wants all eco materials but…