Downtown Buildings Becoming Green Together

Great News for Seattle Business Collaboration! Downtown buildings are developing a baseline for building electricity usage in order to strive together to meet the 2030 Challenge energy reduction goals passed by the Seattle Energy Disclosure Ordinance. This is a great example of how local business can make strategic local change towards sustainability.

Sustainability and Place

As I have gone from Restoration Ecology, to Urban Planning, to Community Development and now to Sustainable Business Consulting, I always seem to come back to the concept of Place. The idea of Place has of course been debated by philosophers from the nomadic to the developers of great cities. As we are changing our place of business every day, unintended consequences of those changes are “lost in translation.” Many CEOs do not have a direct connection to the communities where their business starts or sometimes even ends, and my goals are to simply identify those impacts and foster connections to create stronger community business partnerships and avoid and mitigate business impacts before they occur. Place for a business should be project affected area. I am volunteering at the Place Matters Conference with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE ) this month to talk how we can support businesses to make these connections effectively. Check out the line-up!