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The Company We Keep

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

For updates on John's next chapter, visit abramsangell.com.

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Woods Hole Research Center

Emphasizing Energy And Expanding Our Geography

January 17, 2012 by John Abrams 3 Comments

Rodney North, of Equal Exchange, the enduring Massachusetts worker co-op fair trade coffee company, in response to my last blog post, said (I’m paraphrasing here):

It’s great to see how SMCo is diversifying.  I’m guessing this evolved out of some mix of client demand/SMCo interests in renewables & the need to diversify during lean times – yes? I’d be curious to know if this new line of work meant re-training for current SMCo staff &/or bringing on new staff w/the necessary skills. And does it now mean that SMCo needs to have 2 (or more) pipelines of projects lined up so as to ensure fairly steady employment for staff?

I also noted – for the first time to my knowledge – that SMCo finally took on some projects off the Vineyard. . . . I’ll be interested to hear more about how SMCo arrived at that change in policy and hope it works out well.  As a mainlander I’m happy to see that now some of our communities will enjoy some of the gifts of SMCo that the Vineyard has had all to itself all these years.

Rodney inquires about two of the three most important SMCo changes of the last few years:  concentrating greater efforts on Energy and doing select projects off the island (the third is a rigorous focus on planning for the Next Generation of SMCo).

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Filed Under: Energy, Martha's Vineyard, South Mountain Company Tagged With: Equal Exchange, Woods Hole Research Center

Tough Work, Worthy Goals

February 26, 2010 by John Abrams 4 Comments

I rode the boat from the Vineyard to Woods Hole a few days back to see the energy efficiency work we’re doing to Katharine and George Woodwell’s house.   George is the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, where we are currently in the middle of construction of a major Deep Energy Retrofit of a large 1905 carriage house WHRC h2ocolor copy small w textrecently acquired by the center (the completed building will become office and meeting space for their expanding staff; they’re in the climate change business, so theirs is booming!).

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Filed Under: Energy, Martha's Vineyard, South Mountain Company Tagged With: Deep Energy Retrofit, Woods Hole Research Center

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