May 1, 2013
Linnean participated in two important and interesting conferences last week, finding fellow sustainability gurus who are interested in climate adaptation and community sustainability planning. At Cleanmed 2013, we participated in a workshop on Climate Change and Public Health focusing on...
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February 3, 2013
Over the last few years, Sarah and I have gathered like-minded people together to share ideas and strengthen out connections. For a couple of years, we did this at our house, which limited the number of folks we could invite, but made for some great evenings.
Last month, we tried something new....
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October 11, 2012
The Neighborhood Visualizer tool (NV), developed by David Quinn at MIT's Urban Metabolism Lab, provide new, user-facing data on carbon intensity. The tool works like this: you select a city, navigate to your building, zoom in and it will give you neighborhood level data of energy and material...
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June 25, 2012
Here’s a sneak peak of what we’ve been up to at Linnean these days.
We have been busy sifting through hundreds of data sources to assemble a collection of the most valuable environmental, social, and economic data about places across the country. The goal is to make a website on which anyone can...
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May 24, 2012
Environmental performance metrics have some key advantages over strictly financial metrics for organizational decision makers. Patterns of consumption and use provide you, as a decision maker, a window onto the way your organization actually works. The patterns of activities are not just...
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April 3, 2012
Environmental Performance is Powerful
The first reason that many companies monitor environmental performance is cost reduction. Energy and water are the resources most tracked in commercial and institutional settings, and the cost savings that can be realized from paying attention to how these...
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