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Can Green Bonds Catalyze a Clean Energy Transition?

By Christopher Clement on 30 Jun 2015 • 3 minute read

The growth of the green bond market has been highly touted as the financial bridge needed to address climate change and the transition to clean energy at scale. What scale of investment are we talking about here? According to the International Energy Agency, investments …

4 Ways to Pitch a Smarter Built Environment

By Christopher Wedding, PhD on 19 Mar 2015 • 2 minute read

Smarter buildings and communities start with smarter marketing and communications. Which words do you choose – smart, green, profitable, eco, resilient, healthy, clean, high tech, cool, secure, fun? Whether we like it or not, we are all in sales and this kind of messa …

Biomimicry: 3 Ways That Nature’s R&D Can Improve Your Bottom Line

By Christopher Wedding, PhD on 02 Feb 2015 • 3 minute read

The world’s R&D investment of $1.6 trillion per year plays a big role in advancing what we know, what we are capable of doing, and how well we do it. Along the way, we come to believe that, well, we’re pretty smart. However, our knowledge pales in comparison to …

The brilliantly colored Morpho butterfly has inspired innovative biomimetic solutions.

Managing Information Overload to Reduce Stress and Make Better Decisions in Green Building

By Christopher Wedding, PhD on 18 Nov 2013 • 3 minute read

“In the last 30 years, mankind has produced more information than in the previous 5,000." This is a statistic from a 1997 Reuters Magazine article entitled, Information Overload Causes Stress. Here we are 16 years later, and it seems that this trend of information …