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Get Blog Posts As EmailsA new “sins of greenwashing” report is out (hat tip to “The Big Money”). I see a lot of this going on in Panama, and among the hotel community in general (two of my pet peeves with hotels, for example, are switching to fluorescent lights and washing towels less often – that just makes good [...]
The Sins of Greenwashing
April 30th, 2009 by Ben
Two Giant Bits of News
April 26th, 2009 by FrancesHey, Crain’s Chicago Business picked Amble President Benjamin Loomis as their dealmaker of the week! Read it here. We never thought we’d get press coverage so early in the process, so we had to scramble to schedule a photo shoot for Ben. He flew in from Panama at 8pm and by 8am he was sitting [...]
Peter Zumthor recieves the Pritzker!
April 12th, 2009 by MarkIn a world of Skyscrapers and in-your-face buildings of spectacle and grandeur it is refreshing to see that Peter Zumthor has earned Architecture’s most coveted prize, the Pritzker Prize!(Architecture’s Nobel or Pulitzer) Zumthor’s works are subtle, tactile, and timeless. It seems that we praise – too often – current Architecture that delight’s our senses for improbability, [...]
What’s in a Name?
April 9th, 2009 by FrancesFor those of you might be wondering, it’s pronounced EEZ-lah Pah-LEN-kay. One of our minor marketing challenges is that our name is foreign and unfamiliar sounding to Americans (who will make up our primary customer base). In our early planning, we thought a lot about changing it to something more comfortable, mainstream and, well, American. [...]