Mark Sylvester

Oct 1, 2024 | insulation.org | Mark Sylvester

BackgroundThe U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) introduced its first green building rating system, LEED 1.0, in the United States back in 1998. “LEED” is short for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and LEED is currently “the world’s most widely used green building rating system”1 for the built environment. The intent and benefit of LEED is for commercial and residential buildings to be built and operate through the efficient use of our planet’s natural resources.

Feb 15, 2023 | newthinking.com | Nikki Muller |Mark Sylvester |Douglas Beattie

If you’re reading this: you made it! It’s now the day after Valentine’s Day, which I vaguely recall some folks back in the prime era of Maxim Magazine and The Man Show calling “Blowjob and Steak Day.” (This was the invented holiday for celebrating hetero-couple love in the acceptably masculine way, so that women got Valentine’s Day, and this was for the bros—because all women want is chocolate, flowers, gift cards, stuffed teddy bears and a candlelit dinner, and all men want is dead cow and...

Feb 13, 2023 | newthinking.com | Amanda Deibert |Mark Sylvester |Douglas Beattie

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? If your answer is: “it’s a fake greeting card consumerist holiday with overpacked prix fixe menus,” you are in the majority.