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Designer Chiyu Chen has created a design involvolving two of my favorite things: renewable energy and bicycles. The Energy Generating Rental Bike System was showcased a while ago over at Inhabitat. I hope you will take a moment to check it out.
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Sun, August 2 2009 » Inspiration, Links, On the Road » No Comments
I was so taken in by my one on one discussion about Green Roofs; I just wanted to learn more, so this is a list of my wanderings about to learn more.
An Introduction to Green Roofs with lots of pictures
Write up about designing Green Roofs from Massachusetts
architeck.com
Structural Design of a green roof by Architecture student
Promoting [...]
Thu, May 21 2009 » Links » 2 Comments
The Energy Collective is having a lot of discussion about a recent conference and what the US Government is going to do and put incentive money into and the comments are as interesting as the articles and experts about Nuclear Energy and Renewable Energy Sources and possible mistakes being made:
Its time to rethink [...]
Wed, May 6 2009 » Links » No Comments
I wanted to give a shout out to the award winners of the American Institute of Architects Seattle “What Makes It Green Awards” as posted in the Daily Journal April 30, 2009 by Katie Zemtseff.
The Barn Reserve in Leavenworth, WA designed by Bassetti Architects
The Brightwater Environmental Education Center in Woodinville, WA designed by [...]
Tue, May 5 2009 » Links » No Comments
My neighbors are busy doing something new in their yard. A few days of sunshine got us all out and doing yard work.
The first thing that they are doing is supporting a new local project called Terra Commons.
Mission:
Terra Commons is a non-profit network. We serve communities by researching, designing, and practicing habitat restoration, sustainable [...]
Thu, April 9 2009 » Discoveries, Inspiration, Links » No Comments
A new magazine is putting out its first issue in May of 2009. Going to the home page of Conditions Magazine was a refreshing and delightful journey.
The group was on my Facebook page and already has some 400 plus members or followers on Facebook. The magazine is being designed and written by Norwegian [...]
Thu, March 19 2009 » Discoveries, Links, Products » No Comments
By Patricia
Part of my work on this blog involves reading lots of other blogs and newsletters. Today there is really a big hot issue being discussed either directly or indirectly on everything I am reading.
Where are the codes and incentives?
There seems to be two primary drivers of the discussion, and the overall feeling is [...]
Tue, March 17 2009 » Inspiration, Links » No Comments
At the end of last week the UK’s DailyMail paper published an article on a concept building designed to help keep the air clean in industrial areas.
Here is a link to the full article: Forests in the sky could be built to clean air of pollution belched out by factories
Do you think it would work?
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Tue, March 3 2009 » Inspiration, Links » No Comments
Wanted to give a quick nod today to a wonderful project featured on the blog Inhabitat. The Hof House is not only a great house and fantastic green design but the site is a fun and edutaining place as well! Enjoy…
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Thu, February 19 2009 » Discoveries, Links » No Comments
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Mon, December 29 2008 » Links » No Comments
