Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your runoff water feeding vegetation growing on the roof and walls, upon which you’ll feast later that night. Or maybe you’ll move downtown and [...]
With less than 2 weeks before the big event, Gavin Newsom sat down with West Coast Green Founder and President Christi Graham last week to chat. His excitement was apparent about the fast-approaching event and its importance to San Francisco and beyond. Watch to learn why he values West Coast Green so deeply and why [...]
As part of a planned rehabilitation of Pier 2, Fort Mason Center plans to adopt LEED Silver standards and install a large-scale solar array, which will provide for 80% of the Center’s total energy consumption. To celebrate their commitment and to contribute to Fort Mason Center’s sustainable future, West Coast Green is convening a Design [...]
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 [...]
Our friends at West Coast Green were mentioned in the Archinnovations Magazine on Saturday. West Coast Green is co-sponsoring the competition “Lifecycle Building Challenge 3″. The competition aims to attract built and un-built projects that save resources and cut costs and green house emissions. To read the full Archinnovative article click here.
Green-Buildings.Com, the green building and education service, reviewed Re: Vision Dallas’ ECOBlOCK entry from the firm ODA in New York City. Inspired by the basic elements of wind, water, earth and sun, ECOBLOCK focuses on the aspect of creating a community. ODA did not win the competition, but they submitted a very interesting concept that [...]
Never let it be said that we here at Sensible City don’t have a broad range of diverse interests. So much to report on this week, its hard to narrow down what we liked the most. The following are links of news, articles, events that popped up on our radar. The Governator believes California is [...]
Over the last few weeks Sensible City has been putting Re: Vision Dallas and Urban Revision in the ears, eyes and minds of the most popular and influential blogs, media portals and news services. A big idea loves hard work and together we’ve helped spread the world for Urban Revision online. The following is a list of some of our favorite [...]
In the run up to last week’s Green Cities Florida Conference in Orlando, Eric Corey Freed, urban sustainability activist and principal of organicARCHITECT, was interviewed on WELE-AM’s Wake Up Daytona. As a speaker at the conference, Freed will share best practices from our Re:Vision Dallas project and draw from the most advanced research in Green [...]
Dallas, TX - December 2, 2008 — The City of Dallas will host a full-day “Design Charrette” this Friday to examine the necessary framework and community impact of what will become the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. The Charrette, attended by community design and urban planning experts from across the nation, [...]
Deborah Lindsay of Tomorrow Matters hosted Stacey Frost for a one-hour interview on URBAN RE:VISION and its most current competitions and activities. It is one of the most elequent and comprehendable overview’s we have ever organized. Take a listen: [download mp3]. Visit Tomorrow Matter’s online: [click here]. To learn about Re:Vision 6, the latest competition in [...]
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