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May 5, 2016

Language and the Art of Selling Better Homes

If you’ve read our Buzzwords report from last year, you know that one of the phenomena we uncovered is that words that sound negative...

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April 14, 2016

Don’t Count Utilities Out Yet

I go to a lot of conferences. And I’ve often noted, with chagrin, that at the sustainability conferences I attend about one-third of the...

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April 7, 2016

The Smart Home: Energy Efficiency Friend or Foe?

I spoke at the ACI conference yesterday on this topic and thought I’d share here what I shared with folks at the conference. If you’re...

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March 24, 2016

An Open Letter to Manufacturers

Do you ever have that Charlie Brown moment? You know, the moment when you’ve done something again for the umpteenth time, hoping for a...

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March 9, 2016

What Utilities Can Learn from the Republican Primaries

I was on a plane last week when Mitt Romney delivered his speech deriding Donald Trump as a fraud, a bully and generally unfit for office....

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March 1, 2016

Is Fear Getting in the Way?

Last week, I attended the annual GreenBiz State of Green Business conference and the Edison Electric Institute Strategic Issues Roundtable....