Yesterday was Earth Day. That must mean it’s time for my annual rallying of the green troops. I’m sure I don’t need to tell everyone that it’s not enough to think about the environment just one day a year, that Earth Day is just an opportunity to bring our focus back to things green andRead… Read more »
US dept HHS holds a web cast every couple of months. Past secretary Mike Leavitt started the blog and webcasts to reach out to citizens and it has worked. Follow along on #planfirst on twitter Story:There has been an unprecedented effort to coordinate pandemic influenza planning on Federal, State and local levels. This coordination hasRead… Read more »
AT HOME 1. ENERGY CONSERVATION. If every home in the United States replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), the energy saved would prevent greenhouse-gas emissions equivalent to taking 1 million cars off the road, says Arthur Rosenfeld, a physicist and member of the California Energy Commission. He alsoRead… Read more »
I really enjoyed the presentation Emma Atunes from NASA did on their social networking project, Spacebook, last week. I’ve capture my takeaways from her presentation on implementing an internal social network and posted them here.
1. What is this web 2.0 initiative in your county all about? This project grew from an understanding in IT that there were better ways to communicate with each other and the public. There are so many tools out there that we can use to communicate with different constituencies, even foster a dialog between them.Read… Read more »
First Post Barberg Weekly… March 23, 2009 Featured Topics: Managing the Future Strategy: a “Game Plan” for the Future New Tools for Looking Forward, not Backwards Second Post Barberg Weekly… April 02, 2009 Featured Topic: Managing Complexity Recent Post Barberg Weekly… Techniques to Create a “Recipe for Change”
President Obama holds his first full cabinet meeting today (without the still unconfirmed Kathleen Sebelius) to order spending cuts at each of the government agencies. The goal is to trim $100 million in the next 90 days, an impressive-sounding figure, but don’t be fooled: The cuts announced today amount to just one quarter of oneRead… Read more »
W. Henry Lambright writes an interesting report about Griffin and NASA. A summary of the report is that President George W. Bush told NASA to return to the moon and prepare for manned exploration of Mars. The man he put in charge, Michael Griffin, was a certified rocket scientist with a passion for manned spaceRead… Read more »
Jonathan Walters’ report chronicles the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) efforts to realign and centralize its information technology activities. Describing it as an “ambitious, audacious and arduous crusade,” Walters makes it very clear that this is still very much a work in progress. There are significant hurdles ahead and certain significant adjustments will no doubtRead… Read more »
Both Oregon (Portland) and Washington (Seattle and Bremerton) have HOPE VI projects, the latest generation of public housing. (HOPE VI is a federally funded program started in 1992 aimed at improving distressed public housing and reversing the negative perceptions of it.) One of these projects in Seattle was recently evaluated for energy efficiency – andRead… Read more »