by Jamie Wolf | Mar 27, 2012 | Discovery
What happens when we are confronted with trauma in our lives, in our homes, in our communities, and in our businesses? Here are my recent experiences with that question, and what ends up being a surprising answer. A few weeks before most of Connecticut lost power last...
by Jamie Wolf | Jan 27, 2011 | Discovery
Over the course of our lives we travel what I call the “arc of acquisition”. We begin without much, and over time acquire more and more things. Some that we need. Others we just want. We begin without the ability to acquire much and, according to our circumstances,...
by Jamie Wolf | Jan 20, 2011 | Discovery
In this wintry season, who isn’t thinking about what’s required to be comfortable in our homes? Not too hot and not too cold, the ability to provide thermal comfort is one of the most important functions of a building, which you might think of as your...
by Jamie Wolf | Oct 2, 2010 | Discovery, Performance
Like someone on a diet who wonders why, despite their best efforts, they can’t seem to lose weight, we sometimes make mistakes in our choices to save energy in our homes. Unless you knew better you’d expect that these seemingly sensible energy saving...
by Jamie Wolf | Sep 6, 2010 | Discovery
Homes are built, bought, and sold in markets. Banks lend money to build or buy a home according to an appraisal of its likely value in that market. Before that market went bust it encouraged the construction of increasingly larger and more expensive homes and...
by Jamie Wolf | Mar 26, 2010 | Discovery
We measure others, and ourselves, by the values we see practiced in our work, with our families, and within our communities. And in our homes. Honesty, respect, trust, generosity. These are virtues we teach our children and hope for in our relationships with others....
