Patel College of Global Sustainability

Ok, we are fully kicked in now in week 4. I spent the whole week staying late at the office every day, and continuing to work on my case studies when I got home. There is a lot of information to get through, but the case studies are finally starting to take shape so it’s [...]

This last week flew by. Speaking with leading professionals and scientists within the sustainable community has been so intriguing and thought provoking. It’s great to know how many people really care about sustainability, climate change, and low carbon development strategies. It’s even better to know how many of those people are actually [...]

Last week in DC checked out a bike from Capital Bike Share. Started in 2010, it had been the largest bike share program in the nation until NY City’s started up. It does retain the distinction of the largest owned, funded and operated wholly by a local government, though.

What a great program it is.  There [...]

This was kind of a long week for me. I spent the majority of it looking through peer reviews, websites, Caribbean policies and implementation programs for the tourism industry, helping to finalize the survey, and finally sending the survey out. On the bright side, the week went by very quickly but not quick [...]

A lot of work the last two weeks determining contacts to distribute our survey to, as well as finalizing the survey content, introduction and supplemental information.

We finally got the survey out, but we quickly realized that the time frame here may not be sufficient to collect an adequate sample of responses to base our deliverable [...]

So, my final week in Australia was bittersweet because I finally got used to my schedule and work and all the people, but I definitely was excited to come home. Unfortunately, being excited on a 14 hour flight to Los Angeles does not reallt sit well. My traveling was such a long experience with delayed [...]

Here in the District of Columbia Office of Policy and Sustainability, we have been continuing to work on the STAR Community Index, a new nationwide sustainability tracking program for local governments. Washington on DC is a number of pilot communities throughout the country.

Very similar to LEED, this program is designed to be a dynamic tool [...]

Edward Tian (L) Me (Brian Clair) @ TEDx PuntaPaitilla

This week has been very exciting as TEDx PuntaPaitilla license holder and entrepreneur Ezra Masri invited the Kalu Yala business interns to an exclusive presentation “Catalysts and Visionaries“. The talks were fantastic and the presenters were top notch with Hector Aguilar the CEO of GE Central [...]

So time has a funny way of speeding up when you are busy and having a good time, today I realized that I am almost to the four week mark and way behind with my blog postings. Hooray for back-to-back postings! 

Week 3 at ZEBAU was really a great deal of data searching, scouring the internet [...]

Time is flying by. It seems like yesterday we arrived. Yet, its been almost 2 weeks. Tropical Storm Chantal narrowly missed us on Monday night through Tuesday. It was close but we only suffered minor winds and heavy rains. The next day, the sky was bluer than ever. Everything [...]