Regional and Urban Design Committee

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You may have direct interest in GSA's climate change adaptation action plan-  http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/104819. Comment to this plan at adaptation@gsa.gov.

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A.R. Ann Kosmal AIA, A.I.A. LEED AP BD+C
Architect, Certified Permaculture Designer, CPHC-Certified Passive House Consultant
Convener- GSA Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Team 
Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings
U.S. General Services Administration 

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Re: GSA Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan

A barely readable boilerplate make-work enterprise.  Pure governmental agency gobbledygook.  With respect to meaningful action, presumably incremental, a few well written paragraphs in "robust" plain English would have sufficed.  The interstitial verbiage is designed to obfuscate by appearing to be technically literate.  I doubt the agency jargon is comprehensible even within the agency.  We are paying for volumes of bureaubabble from 'crats who can do little about climate change other than talk unintelligibly about it. 

Give concrete examples; is there a plan to nail plywood over the windows and stuff towels under the doors?
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Gary Collins AIA
Principal
Gary R. Collins, AIA
Jacksonville OR
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