Archive | Sustainability

06 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

President Pitches Plan to Revive America’s Cities

Unlike past administrations, the Obama White House has made revitalizing America’s cities a top priority. The collaboration between federal agencies is a great step forward but long overdue; efforts are being made to ensure sustainable development is at the forefront: “For too long, federal policy has actually encouraged sprawl and congestion and pollution, rather than [...]

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06 October 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Sustainability: What does it really mean?

If you were to ask three different people the definition of sustainability, you’ll receive three different answers; this is ours.  Business structures are moving away from models based solely on economic returns and are now considering the environmental and social returns as well. The tides are shifting. From Mother Nature Network | Sustainability: What does [...]

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28 September 2009 ~ 8 Comments

big cities: exhausting and exhilarating

by Liz Neves In the big city, on any given day, anything seems possible. Millions of thinkers, dreamers, and doers exchange ideas, creative sparks, and currency. There are plenty of reasons to be a city dweller – more jobs, much inspiration, more opportunities to help people who need it. But there’s one big drawback to [...]

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24 September 2009 ~ 4 Comments

The Brand Aribra: Backstage

by Yahya E. B. Henry The Company Aries + Libra = Aribra (uh ree bra) Aribra represents a convergence on public health, climate change, sustainability and real estate. We believe these issues should be apart of a collective conversation versus  separate ones. The Logo

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19 September 2009 ~ 5 Comments

One Small Step for Google Maps

by Andre Blackman Many of us are familiar with the great feature of Google Maps – we use it to get to Point to Point B – usually printed out before we drive some place. Last year I was pretty pleased to find out that Google Maps implemented walking directions into their maps functions. There [...]

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18 September 2009 ~ 5 Comments

The transition is complete and we’re off!

by Yahya E. B. Henry Welcome to the new Aribra.com It’s official. The transition is complete and we’re off! Thank you so much for the continued support and encouragement as the project was and continues to be underway. I founded The Aribra Group, LLC as a think tank and real estate development services organization to [...]

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18 September 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Ready, Fire, Aim: The Backdrop

In my few years in business I’ve learned there are people who DO and those that talking about DOING, this is my lessons learned from jumping into the deep. Most like to great ready, aim and then go for the prize … well I went for the prize and now I’m aiming in on my target.

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