Yesterday I watched my neighbor haul another truckload of stuff to her storage unit – that’s the third time this month – and I couldn’t stop thinking about how completely…
Standing in that graduate program coordinator’s office at Parsons last spring, I felt like I was speaking a foreign language. “So you want to study… sustainable design?” she said, squinting…
I’m sitting here drinking my morning coffee and scrolling through emails when I see another message that makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. This woman…
My brother-in-law texted me last week from his new place in Scottsdale, complaining about a $400 electric bill. “Jennifer, I’m hardly ever home and this place is like an oven,”…
Last week I was standing in a client’s living room that looked absolutely gorgeous – perfectly coordinated colors, beautiful sustainable furniture, natural fiber rugs, low-VOC paint on the walls –…
You know that feeling when you’re dragging yourself through another trade show, mentally preparing for hours of greenwashing BS? That was me walking into the Phoenix Home and Garden Show…
The planning meeting was supposed to end at six. By nine-thirty, I was slumped in an uncomfortable plastic chair watching the Flagstaff sustainability committee debate the color of bike lane…
I was standing in Whole Foods last week watching this woman methodically fill her cart with organic everything while simultaneously googling the carbon footprint of her avocado choices, and I…
Last Tuesday, I was sitting in a coffee shop in South Austin reviewing architectural plans with a new client when she pointed to her architect’s latest revision and said, “Look,…