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You can see in the stability area, which is where we think we are trending, our models suggest it’s GDP plus 1% to 2%. We conservatively said GDP plus 1%. So, if you use a 2.6% GDP and you add 100 basis points to that, you get to 3.6% and we rounded up a bit to 4%. And then as you heard from Craig, we added a point relative to our strategic investments. There are lots of forces and economic prognoses that you can use and one thing that we use to kind of support our point of view is what the Harvard Joint Center says for remodeling activity. And their forecast for remodeling activity in 2019 is 5% growth.

Meanwhile, Malvern, Pa.-based CertainTeed Corp., which has been serving the California market for several years, told attendees of IBS about its Apollo II integrated solar roofing. The show drew a crowd of about 100,000 people, its largest number in 10 years.

Owners of restaurants up and down the east coast would have parties at their restaurants on Sunday nights all based around watching the show. Every Monday when I would come into work we would all talk about the show from the night before around the water cooler. Little by little I was brought further into their world that really surrounds itself with food, booze, and machismo.

A lot of advance planning; careful material selection; one of Toronto’s top earth-friendly firms, Solares Architecture at the drawing board; and Mr. Polley’s Evolve Builders Group in charge of swinging the hammers. Oh, and homeowners who understand that much of what’s sustainable hides behind the walls.

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I drove up to his place and caught the guy before he opened for the day. I went in and explained my situation. He told me that I was lucky because this was the day that his garbage man came to empty his dumpster. He asked me to drive around to the back of his building and he would help me get the body in his dumpster and hide it in there where nobody could see it at first glance. I drove the truck around his building and pulled next to the dumpster.

On my last handcart of stuff, I loaded the very heavy fifty-pound bags of flower. We are told not to put more than six bags on the handcart at a time. It just was not safe going down the ramp with more than that because it was hard to control. However, I was among a handful of guys that could handle twelve bags of flour and go down the ramp. It was six-hundred-pounds and once you walk through the foggy hanging blinds to the top of the ramp, it is hard to see who is down at the bottom of the ramp until the last moments. As I started to go down the ramp I saw this little black girl at the bottom of the ramp pointing up to me. I started screaming get out of the way, but there was no time.

What we learned in Peru was the value—­indeed, the absolute imperative—of integrated whole-systems design, of understanding a problem at its most fundamental level, locating it within its broadest context, and mobilizing the fields of expertise necessary to tackle it. Another key insight: Schools, no less than sunglasses, street signs, or electric scooters, are designed—and like any other artifact of our civilization, they may be designed well or poorly, or may simply have been designed to meet challenges that are no longer relevant.

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“The plan said we want this to be less industrialized. We want mixed use, commercial use, transit centers,” Schermeck said. “If the master plan is not going to be enforced by this commission, who’s going to enforce it then?”

Unfortunately, there’s little research on the question of whether roof runoff is likely to contain troublesome pathogens that pose a risk as irrigation water. While the Australian’s faux stormwater runoff included bacteria, the scientists didn’t report results regarding it. And there is research on using roof runoff for drinking water and applying sewage sludge on edibles, but it’s challenging to use that information to draw conclusions for rain barrel water and food.