What happens when you hook up a dumb building to a smart grid?
Toronto, Canada - Greenbuild, the largest green building conference in the world, went international this year. Over 30,000 people headed to Canada for a week of educational and inspirational events. Some impressive speakers and thinkers shared ideas and strategies directed towards the next steps in our goal to better balance the built and natural environment.
One of my favorite authors, Tom Friedman, delivered the keynote. He ironically compared ‘environmental’ accounting to our recent financial accounting, revealing that borrowing from future generations is the opposite of sustainability. We are mortgaging our financial and our environmental future and we need to stop spending and expending our resources foolishly.