Sensible City » sustainability http://www2.sensiblecity.com Integrative Community Engagement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:15:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2006-2007 andrewfletcher@sensiblecity.com (Sensible City) andrewfletcher@sensiblecity.com (Sensible City) http://www2.sensiblecity.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Sensible City http://www2.sensiblecity.com 144 144 Just another WordPress weblog Sensible City Sensible City andrewfletcher@sensiblecity.com no no Planet Harmony – Tree Sound http://www2.sensiblecity.com/2010/04/planet-harmony-tree-sound/ http://www2.sensiblecity.com/2010/04/planet-harmony-tree-sound/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:27:24 +0000 Ian Bryan http://www2.sensiblecity.com/?p=2538 phlogoAn audio exploration of Tree Sound and Rock Star Farms worth sharing.

Paul Diaz: “I was just joking with a friend of mine who is a hip-hop producer and I was like, Dude, you’re a hip-hop producer and I am a beet farmer…”
Hip-Hop and environmental action. Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta combine both, so listen up.
Hosted here on Planet Harmony.
Find Rock Star Farms at http://rockstarfarms.com/ and Tree Sound Studios at http://www.treesoundstudios.com/. Make sure you learn how to plant onions from Farmer Phatty.


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Could the first fully sustainable city block in America rise out of a nondescript parking lot in downtown Dallas, Texas?

After a full year of design competitions aimed at stimulating discussion about the nature of sustainability in cities, San Francisco-based Urban Re:Vision is about to transform theory into reality in Dallas. The land is available, the city is on board and there appear to be no serious obstacles to the development of a city block that would radically redefine sustainability in the urban context.

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The site today.

Over the past year, Urban Re:Vision held a series of design competitions, which addressed issues from transportation and materials to energy and economy in the city block. Here are some of the results of the Re:Construct competition, announced in September at West Coast Green.

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