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THINK PIECES ARCHIVE
How Urban Design can Improve Communities?
Urban Planning and design have an important value when it comes to community. The Edward J. Boustein School of Planning and Public Policy...
Mom's Clean Airforce
Best friend and co-conspirator @Molly Rauch speaking at a Mom’s Clean Airforce press conference yesterday before the Senate Climate...
How Smart Environments Will Take Shape Post COVID-19
A recent article in IOT World Today looks at how COVID-19 is refocusing the role of smart technologies from energy savings to health...
St. John’s Challenges Tradition and Proposes a New Outdoor Learning Environment
Grassy green spaces, intermittent gardens, mulched pathways and wooden boxes filled with water are the new protagonists of the...
California Woodfires: What’s Been and What’s Coming…
40% of the West is experiencing “extreme” to “exceptional” drought, which are the most severe categories. The warm season is arriving and...
SF has its own Font!
SF’s Own Font?! … actually its classic and modern at the same time. Well done. Credit to the City of San Francisco and Ben Zotto and...
The Future of Flying to the Future of Space
Airbus recently won a Crystal Cabin Award for 2020 with its "AirSpace Cabin Vision 2030". What can we learn from the future of aviation...
COVID and the Acceleration of Smart Environments
A lot has gone wrong over the last year, but there've also seen a lot of silver linings. One of those silver linings is the acceleration...
In my Voice: What is MKThink
I was recently asked: “What is MKThink?” Luminous thoughts and bright memories fluttered through my mind darkened by the Corona Virus...
Covid 19 Response: Success in Action - North Monterey County
When North Monterey County Unified School District (NMCUSD) was forced to suspend its in-person learning along with the rest of the...
Back to Work: Will Permission Equate to Adoption?
In some form, non-essential people are going back to workplaces that were recently closed. It’s inevitable, and for many necessary....
Comfortable Places for Learning: A Hawaii Story
It is the end of lunch recess and students are finding their way back into classrooms at James B. Campbell High School in Ewa Beach,...
The Power of Feedback
Confronted with the challenge of a workforce and workspace dispersed across multiple locations, the City of Davis partnered with MKThink...
Going Back to the Office: Embracing "Kick-Ass!"
Linkedin recently published 20 Big Ideas that will shape the world in 2021 . One of those ideas was that in order for people to go back...
Keeping People in Their Homes: Fannie Mae's National Energy Efficiency Research
Fannie Mae has been looking for innovative ways to keep people in their homes. From educational programs to homeowner friendly financial...
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