Michael Scher's Blog

City Manager Marc Ott has selected Lucia Athens, an internationally recognized expert on green building practices, as the City's first Chief Sustainability Officer to help guide the City of Austin’s environmental initiatives. Athens, who spent much of her early career in Austin, is the Senior Sus...

A friend called me to inspect an investment property they were looking to purchase.  A 1936 home on pier-n-beam in a Temple, an hour North of Austin. The inspection was out of town, according to my TomTom it was 54 miles away, a 56 minute drive time. The appointment was schedule for 10:00am.  My ...

I have been watching some of my friends and business associates blog.  I feel like I'm looking at a circle of friends that share fun and fellowship together and I standing a few feet away wishing I could join the circle.   RE-Bar Houston.   Then it occurred to me...I can.  They developed their ad...

I went to the Green Living Expo this past weekend at the Austin Convention Center.  How much fun.  A couple of month's ago I had entertained the thought of being a vendor at this show, but later decided against it.  I wanted to go to see what kind of great ideas were coming in the area of renewab...