Marketing Home Products on Black Friday

Welcome to the Kleber & Associates blog! Here’s the latest on Marketing Home Products on Black Friday   Many know the day after Thanksgiving to be a time of long lines, shopping bags and incredibly deep discounts.  The pseudo-holiday that is dubbed...

When will we exercise zero-carbon building?

Welcome to the Kleber & Associates blog! When will we exercise zero-carbon building?  Here’s the latest. I read an article recently about The Weidt Group, a Minnesota design team who presented their prototype for a “zero...

We’re all seeing GREEN: a 2010 Greenbuild report

“You don’t change things by solving problems. You solve problems by changing.” – Paul Hawken (speaking at Greenbuild 2010) It’s incredible to me all the strides in sustainability and brilliant innovations we see year after year at...

On Family…and Turkey

Besides the fact that my father makes THE BEST turkey… seriously, I challenge any 5-star chef to take him on…Thanksgiving for me always comes down to one thing: family. (OK, two things: turkey and family – a group of people I can’t get enough...

Why can’t Gen-Y get us out of the housing crisis?

Generation Y, or the Boomer Babies, were born during the 1980s and into the 1990s.  They are often described by previous generations as technology-dependent, attention-craving, underachievers. It is also thought by some that Gen-Y should help fix our economy by...