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Not Just a Drop in the Bucket Women Change Agents Water Salon q&a – shareable.net
 
Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

Not Just a Drop in the Bucket

In Portland, Oregon, rows of sedge plantings and aspen trees sit on what used to be an asphalt parking lot. In Las Vegas, homeowners trade their lawns for vast wads of cash. Birds flying over Chicago see fields of sedum on rooftops, and wastewater in Orange County is transformed into water that’s as clean as [...]

Not Just a Drop in the Bucket
Women Change Agents

Women Change Agents

by Christine Arena “The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world,” said Charles Malik, former president of the United Nations General Assembly in a recent speech. Though women represent a disproportionately low percentage of the world’s utilized capital, they may also be a key to overcoming serious obstacles from poverty [...]

Women Change Agents
Water Salon

Water Salon

Salon Five – Rosey Jencks on Water Thursday, January 14th – 2010, 6pm The topic of our March Salon (the fifth on our series) was on water.  Water is perhaps the biggest, and yet least understood, environmental crisis we are facing.  Right now, 1.1 billion people (that’s a sixth of the planet), does not have access to [...]

Water Salon
q&a – shareable.net

q&a – shareable.net

photo:The scene at Rome’s Piazza Navona. Credit: The Wolf Allison Arieff talks with the founders of Shareable.net, who see their new effort as “an invitation to join the fun of building a new world.” It’s strange how some times the most common sense things can come to feel transgressive. Consider victory gardens, once tended by post war, [...]

q&a – shareable.net
Our Edible Education

Our Edible Education

13 January 2010

This past Friday the Re:Vision team, along with Nathaniel Corum and Josiah Raison Cain had the privilege and joy of spending a day with the good folks over at the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley. Our goal was to get hands-on experience and to learn about how the program works with the hopes of replicating it [...]

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Eve Blossom Talks about Socially Responsible Business

Eve Blossom Talks about Socially Responsible Business

18 December 2009

Allison Arieff Editor Urban Re:Vision Magazine Last Thursday, Urban Revision Salon hosted the lovely Eve Blossom of Lulan Artisans. Bookmark to:

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Moving Dallas Forward

Moving Dallas Forward

25 November 2009

Urban Re:Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation are pleased to announce the winner of Re:Vision’s international design competition: “Forwarding Dallas,” a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov. Bookmark to:

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The Empire State Building: Revisioned

The Empire State Building: Revisioned

19 October 2009

Perhaps you’ve heard. New York’s iconic landmark is undergoing a radical transformation: a $550 million renovation incorporating a comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit. Bookmark to:

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The People’s Postcode Lottery

The People’s Postcode Lottery

14 October 2009

We’ve all had the “If I won the lottery” fantasy. Most hypothetical indulgences include world travel, buying property, paying off loans, or the somewhat-boring savings option. All of these, however, center around an individual award- an inordinate lump sum of dough awarded to one lucky person. But the United Kingdom’s People’s Postcode Lottery is changing [...]

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Chicago Green Roof Grant Program

Chicago Green Roof Grant Program

14 October 2009

The birthplace of the skyscraper has something new to be proud of: the city-funded green roof as community stimulus. Chicago is home to over 200 green roofs, covering 2.5 million square feet, more than any other U.S. city. Bookmark to:

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Re:Vision kicks off West Coast Green

Re:Vision kicks off West Coast Green

01 October 2009

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Dallas Polling

Dallas Polling

27 August 2009

Let the world know where you stand on the three top entries then see where they stand. Bookmark to:

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Entangled Bank Travels Overseas

Entangled Bank Travels Overseas

27 August 2009

One of the winning Re:Vision Dallas designs, “The Entangled Bank“, has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival 2009.  Bookmark to:

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Is the new Federal Building in San Francisco green?

Is the new Federal Building in San Francisco green?

26 August 2009

By Eric Corey Freed Wonderful article on Thom Mayne’s new Federal Building that just opened here in San Francisco. It touches on some of the larger issues, namely, how the LEED Green Building Rating System often does not apply to such a large, unusual and design driven building. Bookmark to:

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