I read with interest Josh Linkner’s Monday morning blog about “Waste on the Shop Room Floor.” He noted that people waste a lot of time, our most precious resource, in a business day. He likened this waste to that of a high-end restaurant kitchen, and he wondered what would happen if the staff “just randomly dropped 25% of their high-quality ingredients on the floor?”More
Chealsea, Michigan. Three awards; 1.Energy awards for Leadership, 2. Exemplary Project of 2014, and 3. Appreciation Award were presented by Todd O’Grady, President of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Assoc. (GLREA), at the organization’s annual meeting on December 6 in Chelsea, Michigan. The Exemplary Project Award was for the 1-800-LAW-BUILDING and presented to Srinergy, 1-800-Law-Firm, and Lean & Green Michigan. The Appreciation Award was presented to Mary McGraw, GLREA Treasurer, for her outstanding service to the organization.More
Recently I spoke at the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) 40th national conference that was held in Detroit. I was there representing the Detroit Regional Chapter of the US Green Building Council, and was pleased to see how many of those attending were LEED Accredited Professionals. It says a lot about how important green building principles are becoming in all areas of building and construction.More
Lord Kelvin is credited with the saying “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” To effectively measure, and ultimately improve, energy and natural resource use in a building, you must first know how much is used. To obtain the most accurate picture, a building must have meters on all the major users of energy and natural resources: electrical, gas and water.More
James L. “Jim” Newman received the Distinguished Service Award from ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) at the Annual Conference held recently in San Antonio, TX.More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching its Energy Star Home Advisor, an online tool designed to help Americans save money and energy by improving the energy efficiency of their homes through recommended, customized and prioritized home-improvement projects.More
Reduced water availability and quality, floods and problems related to heat stress are some of the potential impacts cities face with a changing climate.More
Kettering University is one of five universities across the country to be featured in a recent Automobile Magazine article about careers in the industry.More
ARISE Detroit! is not in the business of holding fundraisers – not because we don’t need the money but because our primary focus has always been serving the residents and neighborhoods of Detroit.More
Many utilities are seeing the necessity for integrating distributed renewable energy, particularly rooftop solar power, and energy storage into their electric grids. It makes strategic sense for them to do so if they want to keep up with today’s changing energy environment, and several utilities see renewables combined with storage as opportunities for their industry. They are, however, a bit edgy about the $5 billion battery factory Tesla Motors is building.More
