Posted on 02 February 2010. Tags: cities, infrastructure, sustainable, urban
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 clean drinking water. By 2035, it is estimated that up to two-thirds of the planet will be in the same sad state. Read the full story
Posted in FEATURED
Posted on 19 October 2009. Tags: architecture, cities, construction, CSR, green building, infrastructure, materials, sustainable, urban
Perhaps you’ve heard. New York’s iconic landmark is undergoing a radical transformation: a $550 million renovation incorporating a comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit. Read the full story
Posted in CONSTRUCTION, ENERGY
Posted on 27 August 2009. Tags: cities, construction, dallas, green building, press, sustainable, talk, urban, winner
One of the winning Re:Vision Dallas designs, “The Entangled Bank“, has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival 2009. Read the full story
Posted in CONSTRUCTION, green building
Posted on 25 August 2009. Tags: cities, design
Submitted by Steffan Antonas
How do we re-examine and re-question cities to see their issues as design problems? Read the full story
Posted in POLICY
Posted on 25 August 2009. Tags: cities, emissions, talk
by: Dr. Eban Goodstein
Do rich countries have an obligation to reduce their emissions dramatically regardless of immediate participation by developing nations? Should the United States wait for commitment from new large polluters such as China before agreeing to large-scale emissions cuts?
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Posted in POLICY, TRANSPORTATION
Posted on 12 August 2009. Tags: architect, bikes, cities, design, judge, transportation, urban
My name is David Baker and I’m an architect in San Francisco. We work on high density affordable urban infill housing.
And my role in transportation, that’s my hobby. I’m interested in these things because I think the thing about architects is they have a tendency to think inside the property line. Then the property line comes and it’s just “what’s that?†All it is about their building, how they fit in just as a completely separate little isolated entity. Read the full story
Posted in CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORTATION
Posted on 12 August 2009. Tags: architecture, cities, design, eric corey freed, green building, new york, sustainable, urban
A RECENT Amazon.com search for “green home†pulled up more than 15,000 book titles. Who has time to read them all? So this week, The Green Home tracked down Eric Corey Freed, the author of “Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies,†and asked him to distill this growing cottage industry of green advice into five must-do steps.
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Posted in CONSTRUCTION