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These are my links for May 29th through June 1st:

• is there a fourth sector? | design activism – Interesting discussion on businesses straddling the line between not-for-profit and for-profit (resonates with Yvon Chouinard's book Let my People go Surfing)
• Appraisals of Extensive Green Roofs – via Building magazine forums, a survey from Liverpool JMU on green roofs. Go help research and fill it out.
• Medicority « Life’s too short to drink cheap wine. – Great post about user competence and associated levels for Revit. Would love to see a similar one for IES<VE>. Agree with most of the observations. Anyone involved in BIM at any level should read this one.
• Mixed use needs real meaning – Building Design – "enormous plazas surrounded by galumphing great modern warehouses full of people sitting at computer screens earning the money needed to buy shiny gewgaws inside other galumphing great modern warehouses stuffed full of throwaway things made in China."
• Greener B-Schools, Greener Employees – Harvard Business Online’s Leading Green – Convergence ahoy! Andrew Winston (Green to Gold) is writing for Harvard Business Online. Sustainability is no longer an option.
• Sustainability in construction industry organisations – Nick Reilly's blog – the list of bloggers continues to grow.
• Want to Boost Productivity? Give Workers Bigger Screens – Why bigger or two screens are a good idea. From HBR.

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