<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>The Company We Keep</title>
	<link>http://www.companywekeep.net</link>
	<description>South Mountain, Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:09:11 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>HARVESTING POTATOES AND WIND ENERGY ON PEI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I spent the last week of July relaxing at the southwestern tip of Prince Edward Island.  There&#8217;s not much there except a small harbor filled with lobster boats, a lighthouse, an inn, a restaurant (we stayed in a sweet little apartment above the restaurant &#8211; from our balcony we looked at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/harvesting-potatoes-and-wind-energy-on-pei/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>MADELINE’S SOLAR HOUSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 a woman named Madeline Blakeley called me to ask me to look at a piece of land with her.  She was a librarian in her early sixties whose husband had recently died.  They had no children and had always lived in rented apartments.  Her dream was to own a piece of property.
She had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/madeline%e2%80%99s-solar-house/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>For Better Or Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago my old friend Marc Rosenbaum arrived on Martha’s Vineyard.  He often arrives on Martha’s Vineyard.  For 20 years this distinguished, nationally recognized building performance engineer has been arriving here to consult with us – to help us make better buildings. For 30 years he has been responsible for some of the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/for-better-or-worse/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>MORE THAN A GASH IN THE KNEE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Gulf well spews daily destruction and BP scratches it’s head, it’s a time to think about technology and its uses (well. . .  it’s been time, for a long time, but now it’s time again).  Ever since the the first stone axe glanced off its target and gashed the user’s knee, or even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/more-than-a-gash-in-the-knee/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>CHEERS &amp; TEARS . . .and ELIAKIM’S WAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheers and tears.  That’s the way of a Vineyard housing lottery.
On Tuesday, March 30th, a standing room only crowd packed the meeting room at the Howes House.  At stake:  seven new LEED platinum houses at Eliakim’s Way off State Road in West Tisbury.  There was a mix of nervous applicants, expectant children, public officials, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/cheers-tears-and-eliakim%e2%80%99s-way/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>SMC IN THE NEWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to share some nice press SMC has received recently.
The first two are recent articles in local magazines about projects of ours.


The third is a piece on an on-line magazine called TONIC.

I hope you enjoy these.  We have.  I&#8217;ll be back with something more substantive than all this fluff soon!!
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/smc-in-the-news/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>FINAL DECISION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to take a break from writing, and haven’t said a word since March 18th &#8211; too much on my plate.  Business is challenging at SMC right now, but all is well, projects are good, everyone’s busy, and we’re all in it together, working hard to keep working.
But the Cape Wind announcement in Boston [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/final-decision/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Here Comes the Island Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Island Plan is complete.
For now.
Four years in the making, this long-term plan for the future of Martha’s Vineyard, initiated by the Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Commission,  engaged hundreds of people in the collaborative process of its production.  To quote from the plan:  “ The purpose of the Island Plan is to chart a course to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/here-comes-the-island-plan/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Gift that Goes on Giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I talked about the upcoming Lake/Hodgson Deep Energy Retrofit open house.  It was a big success, a perfect event.  On a gorgeous blue-sky winter day we were joined by an enthusiastic crowd of 35-40.
The crew had done a stellar job readying up, and the placed looked about as pretty as a just-insulated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/the-gift-that-goes-on-giving/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Tough Work, Worthy Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rode the boat from the Vineyard to Woods Hole a few days back to see the energy efficiency work we’re doing to Katharine and George Woodwell’s house.   George is the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, where we are currently in the middle of construction of a major Deep Energy Retrofit of a large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/tough-work-worthy-goal/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
