Matt and Mike unpack how the integrative design process supports companies pursuing building certifications.

This episode of the MicroVlogCast unpacks a value-driven process that is revolutionizing how we approach sustainable architecture.

Learn about this co-created stakeholder-driven framework.

We live in a time of multiple crises. So how do you make design, construction, and business choices while holding them all in tension?

We have only been an indoor species for a few hundred years. Our innate connection to the natural world still deeply drives our health, productivity, and overall well-being.

From raising capital, to partnering with investors, to power purchase agreements with energy companies. Learn about the variety of ways to fund your renewable energy project.

Matt is officially initiated into the Foresight #MicroVlogCast Host Club as he has to answer Mike's infamous question: What's your superpower?

Mike and Matt discuss the ins and outs of net metering, selling back your extra energy, and what it means to operate “behind the meter.”

Mike and Matt talk tax credits, selling excess energy, additionality, and increased efficiency in this week's episode of the MicroVlogCast!

Learn the definition of biomimicry, how much electricity our solar panel produces, and how solar energy can strengthen the grid.

As residential homes and commercial facilities swap to self-generated energy, what does this mean for the local energy grid?

Matt and Mike took to the roof last week to film Season 4 backdropped by our rooftop solar array. Before we roll out the entire season, here are a few of our favorite resources for understanding the present day landscape of solar energy and the eagerly anticipated future-innovations.

You've heard of things having varying "shades of grey," but what about "shades of green"?

After 45+ years of professional engineering practice, everything comes out perfect the first time, just like I expect... That's a lie (and you knew it as soon as you read it). We all know that NOTHING comes out perfect the first time, so why do we often act as though it were true?

I coached boys high school basketball at the Varsity level for 11 years. If you’ve coached youth sports at a competitive level, then you’ll almost certainly resonate with the frustration that comes with kids who want to win the game, but don’t engage or compete during practice.

On the MicroVlogCast this summer, our energy engineers are unpacking the ideal Energy Management Pathway. The first step to managing energy wisely is to simply Use Less.

I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and our electricity provider rolled out a different way to bill residential customers this year. I kept hearing friends gripe about how Consumers Energy is increasing rates by 50%. As a professional who nerds out about energy, I was excited to hear others digging into electricity rates.

First thing I remind anyone trying to understand LEVEL Certification is that it is a sustainable product certification. By LEVEL’s definition, a product certification is not a sustainable building certification like LEED or sustainable company certification like B Corp; the scope of a product certification includes a product, building and a company.

Sustainability is a business model that has taken more prominence in the business world recently. Investors like Larry Fink at BlackRock have identified sustainability as a "new standard for investing" to manage and minimize business risk. There has been a lot of buzz around defining, structuring, and organizing this new business model. At Foresight, we have been asked by many CEO, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of Sales, "Where do we start?"

What you aim for… matters. Even if you aim at nothing, you still get what you aim for! Better to aim carefully. Energy use in a facility is “modeled” in a computational environment (i.e., software). It is a prediction of facility energy use and, just as importantly, energy cost.