Until it isn’t.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/trumps-america?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios

“If we all spent more time focusing on friendships - their building, maintenance, & restoration - we not only would increase our own emotional support networks, health, & resiliency, we would also strengthen our ability to see others as fellow humans who share the same basic needs, vulnerabilities, & fears. I think this is something we need in our ever growing fragmented world, as we struggle against everything from oligarchy & authoritarianism to bigotry & othering.”

https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/friendship

Some things to keep in mind as 2025 winds down and 2026 begins.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/in-the-spirit-of-christmas?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios

Some reflections on the recent ASHRAE Decarb Conference & some brief foreshadowing of what I'm hoping to see at Greenbuild this week.

Placing people at the center of what we do - equitably centering human voices & outcomes - seems like a good goal in general.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/putting-human-decarbonization-reflections-2025-ashrae-marcel-harmon-fwu5c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

“‘The old world is dying,’ Antonio Gramsci wrote in another era of destruction, ‘and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.’ We may be fated to live in such a time. But what new world will be born after this time?”

Indeed, what new world?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/america-short-term-thinking.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“The lyrics, along with Bowie’s and Mercury’s iconic voices, have frequently been in my head since Trump won the election last November (and the Kansas GOP increased its legislative supermajority).”

Nature walks, punching Nazis, protecting the trans community, ridiculing Trump/MAGA, & Grosse Pointe Blank

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/america-under-pressure?r=1mijet&utm_medium=ios

Spinelessness a critical trait for defending such things as betraying allies, changing the world order, undermining democracy, promoting authoritarianism and dictators, shredding the constitution, increasing the wealth gap, and the list goes on.

#ksleg

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcelharmon67/p/rise-of-the-republican-invertebrates