The “green” road trip; can we make this happen?
Last week I posted about the GreenDesignCollective’s Portfolio Project, where I am inviting fellow unemployed architects and designers to host their online portfolios on the GDC for free for a period of up to a year. These are the first steps towards creating a true “green design collective”, partially inspired by groups like the Hyperform [...]
It’s hard to get rid of used books
Well it’s harder to get rid of used books than you’d think. I’ve been to two used bookstores today; one of them doesn’t buy back on Sundays and the other didn’t want anything I had. As it’s exhausting carrying around a bunch of books that I don’t want, I’m trying to figure out my next [...]
GDC Portfolio Project
Unfortunately the building industry is going through a period of massive contraction right now. The economy is bad, creditors aren’t lending, great firms are shutting their doors, and people are losing their jobs in droves. Some of those people are my friends. Which is why I am starting a new initiative, called the GreenDesignCollective Porfolio [...]
Make recycling make sense
Full disclosure: I love my 15″ MacBook Pro. Knock on wood, I’ve not had any major problems with it in the 3 years that I’ve had it. And, even though I’ve seen some things about the batteries that freak me out a bit, I don’t regret my purchase of it. It’s done everything I have [...]
Aktivhaus!
From Treehugger comes news of a “passive house” with solar hot water collectors and a heat pump that actually generates more energy than the house consumes. A typical passive house is designed with lots of insulation and less windows, in order to absorb heat and trap it in, thereby conserving solar energy and reducing the [...]
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