Planet Relations

This site has been largely ignored since I took a full-time position back in September 2008 with KEMA, Inc., a global technical and management consulting firm focused on the energy industry. As I wondered how best to archive old content including past articles that I'd written for green building publications, these pages have remained static. [...]

Two articles that I wrote appear in the October editions of two widely circulated green building publications. Both magazines will also be distributed at next month's GreenBuild conference in Chicago. Look for a copy at the show, or download PDF versions below.  O'Hare Modernization Program, eco-structure Magazine, October 2007. (bylined) Justice for the Environment, Environmental [...]

To help facilitate the interactive session Green Streaming: Winning Support for Building Green at GreenBuild, posts to this section of the website will focus on forming green building coalitions and overcoming objections to new design/construction practices.So, what’s your experience reaching out beyond the core design team? Input is valuable and improves the overall project. It’s [...]

Recently I wrote a contributed article (?) for Healthcare Design Magazine about the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, which provides medical care to survivors of the world’s worst industrial chemical accident. Architecture of Healing describes the Sambhavna Clinic and the work to eliminate the continued suffering in Bhopal. I’m saddenned to hear that monsoon flooding [...]

Last year I worked on a marketing communications project for the California Association of Food Banks called Farm to Family. Essentially, the program connects food banks with growers to glean their surplus product that isn’t marketable to conventional grocery stores because it’s too small, too large, blemishes, etc. Fruits and vegetables are picked up from [...]