A few years ago, my crew and I sat down for an informal lunch
with our friends at Horizon Residential Energy Services, a
local energy auditing company we work with frequently here in
Portland, Maine. We were brainstorming about how our companies
could better collaborate when the subject of frequent
challenges came up. The more we talked, the more we realized
the issues our two companies face are the same ones that all
local companies working on energy efficiency and "green
building" face.
So why, we wondered, are we working in isolation? All of us
work on the...