I expect that in the future architects, owners, engineers, and occupants will work together to “engineer” buildings as active, “living” systems that put more energy back into the grid than they use and also help to clean the air and water in the nearby communities.

politicians - There is a hand in your pocket. It belongs to a lobbyist for the insurance industry. I want to reach down, grab that hand, and yank it out of your pocket. You see, after that hand deposits money in your “pocket”, or really, makes threats about removing support from your next campaign, it grabs onto your “little brain” and squeezes.

Chuck Grassley has obliquely admitted what more and more Americans are beginning to understand – that the unhealthy and excessive profits of insurance companies and their executives come before the health of the people. The reason? Campaign donations and other goodies and probably even threats. In short, they’ve sold us down the river.

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