Was back East last week, and in between meetings with bankers about helping my company capitalize projects in our pipeline, I took some time and talked to graduate students at Columbia University's Master of Science in Real Estate program and at my alma mater--the MIT Center for Real Estate.

The students are a great group--reaffirms my optimism that we will create a built environment that thrives in a time of expensive energy [relative to the last decade] and responds to the climate change challenges we currently face.  A very tall order, but they are smart, talented, and motivated.  And they will need all of that to fix this problem.

They asked great questions, and I really enjoyed meeting them and exchanging views on PV powering real estate.

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Many thanks to Michael Buckley, Tony Ciochetti, Marion Cunningham, and Maria Vieira for giving me this opportunity.