02.26Green Cities
Vegetation and Water Management hold the keys for truly “Green” cities, can improve infrastructure performance, public health, and civic character.
02.17Urban Agriculture
Are we reaching a tipping point for the insertion of agricultural production systems into unused spaces of our urban environments?
02.12Esalen
Esalen workshop a success, cars pollute less than buildings, and stimulus money should be helping us create more efficient buildings in order to curb global warming and financial melting.
02.12Cascadia Conference
Josiah will be speaking with Sim Van der Ryn at the Cascadia Region Green Building Council. They will be presenting on the concept of Resiliency, a change from rigid large scale centralized systems to the flowing resilience of small scale localized systems.
The conference will be held in Portland, Oregon between May 6-8th. Link to presentation [...]
02.03Green Infrastructure
As the stimulus package plods through Congress and we bite our nails for something, anything to work, I have reviewed the actual document with great interest. Of course various actors are pushing for huge corporate breaks and there is some merit to funding bridge and highway repairs (or more accurately, repairing the 16.5% unemployment rate [...]