I read something very interesting in the last issue of a great magazine called Fast Company (http://www.FastCompany.com). The article was called something like "Feeding the Beast" and the point of the article was that the only way to really cut energy use is to quit consuming so darn much. As an example, they mentioned fast food places touting that they had switched from stryofoam boxes to recycled cardboard boxes. While an improvement in some respects, the real key is that we all consume gas to get to fast food places and cause energy to be used to recycle those boxes etc.

We are a consumer driven economy here in the US but we can all make a conscious effort to try to consume less. As an example, here at the Gosselin Group office, we are putting together a formal strategy to minimize paper use by utilizing e-fax, deciding if a paper really needs to be printed (or simply read and kept in an electronic folder), etc. Go green!

This is Deb Gosselin and not only am I the President of The Gosselin Group, Inc. but I am also a 50-something blog virgin! So please excuse me if the format is boring while I get the hang of this!

Since this is an opening post, just a few quick words about my background. I started out in psychology (have a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Counseling from Michigan State), worked for five years as a counselor and prof in a community college and then got bitten by the civil engineering bug. I went back to school at Tri-State University in Angola, Indiana (fabulous place to get civil engineering training) and got a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering. Then it was off to a job as a City Engineer for a couple years (baptism by fire!) followed by 18 years in a private consulting firm. Last year I took the dive and went off on my own and thus...The Gosselin Group, Inc.

I plan to use this blog to talk about interesting jobs going on here, about new things going on in the world of civil engineering and surveying, and about "green community" and other green design (one of our favorite topics here).