Green Building for Dummies author Eric Corey Freed stopped by the Comcast Studios in San Francisco to talk about green building, home building materials, the role of architects and how it all comes together at West Coast Green – the nation’s largest residential green building conference. Journalists interested in attending West Coast Green should contact [...]
Below is a picture of the little Island where I lived as a child. It is called Ebeye [eeb - eye]. Situated in the South Pacific, the nearest notable land mass is Papua New Guinea. The Marshall Islands (making up a region perhaps the size of Washington DC) are divided into two chains: the western, [...]
Lloyd Alter @treehugger picked up the RIBI/Woshipful CCA design competition winner for new ideas to shake up London Bridge. The winning design includes vertical farming, solar heating, vertical axis turbines, gray water recycling and a few other notably disruptive technologies. Here’s the story: London Bridge isn’t falling down, it is just really boring. It used [...]
Re:Vision Dallas was part of a series on ABC World News with Charlie Gibson last night titled “Downsizing your Dream Home”. The piece focused on housing trends including buying smaller homes, energy efficiency and renting. The Re:Vision Dallas project is highlighted as a new trend towards energy efficient urban living.
On May 14th we supported a community/media open house in Little Rock. Here’s the footage from Rockafeller Elementary School. “I have seen a change in my students’ learning this year from previous years. The students have learned faster [as a result of using this technology].”
For those who follow visual facilitation and visual recording, you might be happy to hear (or see) that VizThink is hosting an online “Visual Note Taking 101″ course this May 12, 2009. Participants can be present live at 11 AM or view it later. We first encountered visual recording when representing West Coast Green in 2006 (note: [...]
Elisa Klingel stopped by the office last week for a fresh round of pictures that were so good, we thought it was worth a post of its own. Visit the new @ page to find out our darkest secrets and personal cell phone numbers.
We here it every day at Sensible City: the media is dying. But our attitude in this regard seems to stand lonesome, so we thought it might be worth a post. While PR firms, “industry leaders” and CEOs line up with explanations (most of which have to do with advertising revenues and the cost of paper), [...]
WUSA (CBS Channel 9) was on site at Ecobuild’s DC Conference. Here is their report from the tradeshow floor on the promise of a more “green economy”. WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) — Ever heard of a sustainability director? That is one of the new jobs in demand in the growing green technology industry. The Ecobuild & [...]
This week we are in San Francisco supporting Urban Re:Vision for a 2-day intensive design session to redefine the city’s Civic Center district using Re:Vision’s Unified Conceptual Framework which is currently guiding our sister project, Re:Vision Dallas. To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom’s goal: “We are transforming our Civic Center into a global model for how [...]
[Ian Bryan] If you aren’t sold on the Kindle 2, it is probably because you are listening to this guy (pictured above), or to Amazon’s standard marketing. Jeff is a good guy, as charming and brilliant as they come, but he too often speaks indiscriminately to features on his promotional tour (instead of judging his [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s good enough to power the most expensive real estate in the universe – the International Space Station. Now it will help power one of the biggest buildings in Orlando. Steve Gehlbach has the enlightening details. Media: register here.
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