{"id":1122,"date":"2013-11-22T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructonomics.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2013-11-22T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:30:28","slug":"hillary-talkin-construction-and-economics-constructonomics-at-greenbuild-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/hillary-talkin-construction-and-economics-constructonomics-at-greenbuild-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary talkin’ construction and economics (Constructonomics!) at Greenbuild 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Hillary 2016!”, shouts a man from the crowd of over 10,000 at\u00a0the Temple University\"hillary2\"basketball arena during Hillary Clinton’s Q&A session with USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi after her Keynote speech last night at Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Clinton, realizing that the comment had to be addressed since everyone in the arena heard it, replied, “There are some hecklers that I don’t mind so much.” <\/span><\/p>\n

So does that mean….well, right now, it doesn’t matter because Hillary was there to talk about green building and sustainability. \u00a0Talk she did, and with knowledge and tenacity she spoke. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Clinton stressed that not only is green building good for the environment and human health and well-being, but it’s also good business! \u00a0This is the win-win phenomenon of green building that has always made so much sense. \u00a0When you invest in sustainable building and improvements, not only are you providing work for the construction industry but you’re saving money on energy and creating healthier more productive places to live and work. \u00a0This is the economic ripple effect that can occur when people invest in construction work. \u00a0And there is even more potential for a domino effect when the construction improvements are sustainable in nature. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Clinton, you’re bangin’ your figurative hammer right on the head of Constructonomics. <\/span><\/p>\n

And if Ms. Clinton gets her way when she’s pres…ummm, I mean, if Ms. Clinton’s visions come to fruition, there will be a lot of literal hammers banging on heads of real nails in the midst of many more sustainable construction projects. \u00a0And the ripple effect of sustainable construction or dare I say, Constructonomics, will snowball into a full blown wave of economic benefit. \u00a0(Three metaphors in one sentence – not too bad!).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jon Bon Jovi, who played for an hour and a half after Hillary’s speach, sang (first with a solo acoustic guitar and then with the full band),<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whoa-oh, we’re half-way there. \u00a0Whoa-oh, we’re livin’ on a prayer”. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I think this, once again, applied quite metaphorically to our situation because our planet is just about livin’ on a prayer while Hillary Clinton is half way there……half way to 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hillary 2016!”, shouts a man from the crowd of over 10,000 at\u00a0the Temple Universitybasketball arena during Hillary Clinton’s Q&A session with USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi after her Keynote speech last night at Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Ms. Clinton, realizing that the comment had to be addressed since everyone in the arena heard it, replied, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}