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		<title>On Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the last surgery, My left arm wasn&#8217;t working very well. I could&#8217;t hold it out straight in front of my torso. turns out that during the surgery THEY had LAID ME ON my left shoulder. Five hours in that contorted position gave me  pain that persisted and pinched a nerve as well. I wasn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=419&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia Shows People eat Better when Good Food is Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprise, surprise! The coolest thing about this story, beyond the basic notion that people eat better when better eats are in hand is that study was done while helping people who need help. The City subsidized vegetables through food stamps and measured the results! Now they have evidence by which to make decisions about nutrition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=411&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economist Thinks Business Can Learn From Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that sounds like an Onion headline, but a recent Economist magazine blog post, the art of management, makes some interesting assertions in the service of rhetoric: Artists routinely deride businesspeople as money-obsessed bores Businesspeople assume that artists are a bunch of pretentious wastrels The truth of either is perhaps not the point. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=402&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Most Imaginative Art Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math is fun. Really. But how does geometry figure in a blog about sustainability? First though, fun? Really? I think so, but I&#8217;m kind of a geek. The figure at left is reproduced from a charming yet brief volume titled &#8220;A Mathematician&#8217;s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=354&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Buildings Worth 13% More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research on Green Buildings is growing. A recent and apparently comprehensive study by a Dutch researcher identifies a number of benefit, for owners and developers, of green building. This is borne out in my own experience. We have been working with a real estate investment trust to assess their portfolio for potential LEED EB certification. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=309&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Issues with admin changes in LEED</title>
		<link>http://emergencypicnic.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/issues-with-admin-changes-in-leed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post from Real Life LEED about LEED&#8217;s energy reporting requirements that highlights the less than rigorous process for updating LEED policies and guides. &#8220;My biggest complaint with the LEED &#8230; is how &#8230; administrative changes are handled. Changes to supporting documents &#8230; &#8220;seem to occur randomly and there&#8217;s no system to easily see changes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=292&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEED is the Worst, Part IV: its Authorities Aren’t</title>
		<link>http://emergencypicnic.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/242/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried&#8230;&#8221; 1 ~ Winston Churchill Change a few words and the Prime Minister&#8217;s commentary on democracy could easily be applied to LEED. The USGBC&#8217;s system is barely ten years old, yet it has been has been remarkably successful in transforming the public&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=242&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free IECC and ASHRAE Standards</title>
		<link>http://emergencypicnic.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/free-iecc-and-ashrae-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two important energy standards are now available for free download: The International Energy Conservation Code forms the basis for many municipal energy codes in the US, including Chicago. The most recent version, for 2009, is available for free at the ICC Store The ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007, which LEED uses as it&#8217;s baseline energy standard, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=233&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEED is the Worst, Part III: Design Loses Out</title>
		<link>http://emergencypicnic.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/leed-is-the-worst-part-iii-design-loses-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried&#8230;&#8221; 1 ~ Winston Churchill Change a few words and the Prime Minister&#8217;s commentary on democracy could easily be applied to LEED. The USGBC&#8217;s system is barely ten years old, yet it has been has been remarkably successful in transforming the public&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=185&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEED is the Worst, Part II: the Dirty Little Secret</title>
		<link>http://emergencypicnic.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/leed-is-the-worst-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried&#8230;&#8221; 1 ~ Winston Churchill Change a few words and the Prime Minister&#8217;s commentary on democracy could easily be applied to LEED. The USGBC&#8217;s system is barely ten years old, yet it has been has been remarkably successful in transforming the public&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emergencypicnic.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4547828&#038;post=151&#038;subd=emergencypicnic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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