Home Improvement: Lessons In Deck Paint, or, Customer Service 101
In which Nat argues with an $11 billion company over some utterly foolish application instructions on a gallon of very, very expensive deck paint.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
Land Hurricanes, Resilient Design, And Other Stuff To Think About
Extreme weather, like the recent derecho storm that ripped through Iowa, is exposing the fragility of the built environment. Fortunately, in thinking about how to protect ourselves, we have the ability to combine human technological ingenuity with the systems nature already built.
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I’m Getting An MBA Because You People Are Wrong
A tweet about Kamala Harris highlights how woefully ignorant many people are about financial markets and how this harms us in the quest for formulating
meaningful policy, change, and discourse.
Netflix’s ‘Tread’ Is A Good Indictment Of Municipal Bureaucracy
Marvin John Heemeyer bulldozed a few buildings before shooting himself dead after a years-long dispute with a municipal government. While an extreme example, it’s a credible indictment of city governments that embrace inflexible paths to things like code compliance.
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Blood on the Louis Vuitton: Is Looting In Chicago A Referendum On The Zeitgeist?
As Chicago struggles with an epidemic of gun violence, one Gold Coast resident is worried that a looting spree last night on the Magnificent Mile will be used as a pretext for violent crackdowns on the Black Lives Matter movement. This is clearly unrelated to Black Lives Matter. But are not both the looting and the civil rights movement loud referenda on the current state of class relations in America?
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WOCCS Resiliency Summit: Women of Color in Sustainability
Nat attended a few amazing sessions at the Collective Resiliency Virtual Summit, organized by the Women of Color Collective in Sustainability, a co-creation of POCACITO fellow Jordana Vasquez.
Read MoreIndoor Air Quality and COVID
Green building is increasingly focusing less on hi-tech lightbulbs alone and more on a holistic building that is not only
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DPD: “There could be no possible justification” to send DHS officers to Detroit
The Detroit Police Department has released a statement categorically distancing itself from the threat of federal intervention in ongoing, local protests.
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How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation
IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s
Read MoreStuck In A Fiscal Hole? Just Borrow Against The Future, Says Detroit’s Mayor
Mike Duggan wants to revisit his failed bond issue proposal to demolish derelict buildings. It’s a bad idea.
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