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Timeless Green: Reclaiming the Past
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”102126″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”416043″][vc_column_text] More than 150 million Americans, live in suburbs – that’s half of all Americans. While the rest of the world appears to be in a mad rush to urbanize – poverty, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions be damned – we seem to have deserted the city for the relentlessly sprawling edges. The…
Read MoreGreen Building Design 101
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”102123″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”101542″][vc_column_text] The first thing any architect or builder worth his own salt will tell you is that we need to work with nature, not against it. This is the key mindset of sustainability. Every building site contains inherent natural potentials. This can mean average rainfall, prevailing winds, geothermal activity, even the ground…
Read MoreThere’s Nothing New About Sustainability
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”102121″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”110631″][vc_column_text] In a way, the word “Sustainability” has become just another over-used buzzword, a casualty of our free market’s endless drive to find and appropriate progressive terms for short-term financial gain. For example, when I am in a hotel, I often put up the placard that lets the maid know that…
Read MoreThe American Drain
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”102118″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”122004″][vc_column_text] Most American single-family homes can be summed up in one word: flimsy. The exterior styling is mass-produced. The walls are hollow, and the floors are linoleum. The electric and heating bills are utterly frightful. When it is cold outside, it is cold inside; and when it is hot outside, it…
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