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Click on image to download slides from my presentation at the Biomass 2008 Conference today in DC.

A friend of mine in medical school was complaining the other day about how business schools always get the nice buildings. I complained that I was about 7 years too early to enjoy Sloan’s new building… Here’s a blurb about the “greenness” of it, though:

Once it is completed in 2010, the new MIT Sloan building (E62, pictured in this artist rendering) should be the greenest building on campus. The six-story structure will incorporate a number of environmentally friendly features including daylighting, chilled beams and radiant ceiling panels.

Source: Tech Talk, April 16, 2008 (issue includes several other energy articles)

Sadly, for about the same price… this picture was taken on a beautiful ride in the Marin Headlands last weekend.

Here’s the view from my office in Shanghai on a “clear” day:

Pudong, the new business + suburbs district across the river from old Shanghai, is still very much under construction. The site here is for the new IFC Towers… I wonder about the urban planning that is going into (or not) the development of the whole area. It just seems like they could be doing a lot more cool stuff to make Pudong an interesting place to be. But, alas, it seems it is just a race to erect giant, soulless skyscrapers. I guess that’s an indication of what provides the largest and quickest ROI.

I have noticed a direct negative correlation between my work travel schedule and how much I blog, which is my excuse for not blogging much since last summer. I’ve been on a pretty extreme travel rotation that includes (from east to west, north to south): Boston, DC, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai. (Call me Pacific-centric, but I think of China as west of California). The cycle has been about every 4-5 weeks.

The main work lately has been as EIR at Qiming/Ignition and consultant to the DOE (see About Me for more on those). In my spare time, I’ve been writing clean energy business plans, which I am not quite ready to talk about much just yet (another excuse for not blogging)…

The good news is that I should hit 1K status on United this year by the 4th of July. [update 5/28/08: I hit 1K ahead of schedule with my last trip... as they say, "1K by May!"... ok, I don't know who says that, but I thought it was clever.. haha]