RMJM needs to "look at its conscience", Haiti earthquake was a disaster "waiting to happen" and "eco-bling" does little for sustainability.
"People should think twice and look to their consciences before awarding public contracts to companies that don't appear to look to theirs when employing people who don't appear to have certain ethics."
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"Haiti was, quite literally, a disaster waiting to happen, and its fate shows that in the 21st century, even more than in the last, the toll of a natural catastrophe is less a matter of the power of the storm or earthquake than the state of the people who suffer it."
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"It achieves little or nothing. If you build a building that is just as energy-hungry as every other building, and you put a few wind turbines and solar panels on the outside that addresses a few per cent of that building's energy consumption, you have not achieved anything."
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"Environmentalism is a much better hang-up than worrying about the spiritual pitfalls of too much masturbation. Even if it's neurotic, it's still doing some good. But environmentalism, like every other ism, has the potential for dogmatic zeal and obsession. Do we really need one more humorless religion? Let us save the planet, by all means. But let's also admit to ourselves that we have a natural propensity toward guilt and indignation, and let that fact temper our fervor to more reasonable levels."
The Chronicle
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"If a well executed sewage system, conceived by a fine mind, can produce great engineering achievement and elegant urban enhancement, why is it that a well-funded retail development, more than a century later, cannot even achieve the simple essence of urban repair and place making? It is a missed opportunity."
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