By taking full advantage of water resources on-site, our structures and landscapes can become more productive, more efficient, more beautiful, and more integral to the ecological systems that surround and support us. In this way, we hope the nature of human development will soon surpass even “low impact”, to become “high benefit”.
With the “financial crisis” lingering on, it has been interesting getting into high level dialog about the future of, well, the World! But more specifically, what lies ahead for the design and construction professions. Never mind that Green Building is really the only piece of the AEC world still logging positive numbers; the rest of [...]
Only 200 of 1.7 million California graywater systems have legal permits, though graywater has been part of state code since 1992. San Francisco will not even accept permit applications for graywater. Will SB1258 make a difference?