Awesome Charrettes: Part 1- Big Picture
First, what is a charrette? The historic term comes from French design schools where project would be picked up at midnight in a cart. The […]
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Is it Sustainable: Hiking
The frustrating part about discussing sustainability is the term itself, and how it means very different things to different people. It can also mean different […]
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Resiliency Riff
Resilience in our daily lives: Public transit, sidewalks, electric infrastructure, bike lanes all lead to resiliency, so everyone has more than one way to get […]
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What is an Architect?
What is an Architect? What is the role of the professional organization representing architects? About a month ago, someone shared a post about Mr. Trump’s […]
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One of the issues holding us back is arrogance. We have no time and not enough resources to continue to think we know it all, […]
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Cost Effectiveness
I don’t know if I should class this as a language discussion or a systems thinking discussion, but in the understanding that true solutions come […]
Continue reading »Entitlement Needs a Partner
My son and I attended Brain Candy at Proctor’s in Schenectady this past Friday. We both love Adam Savage and my son is a fan […]
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Tetris for Adults: a purposeful decision
Yesterday I stacked two cords of wood in our wood racks in the backyard. I stacked, my son “chucked” and it took only a few […]
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Community; Why Do We Need It?
What is community to you? What does community have to do with sustainability? Why do we need community to achieve resiliency? Community has come up […]
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I have been studying recently about bio-synergistic design approaches, including biomimicry, bioutilization and biophilia. One of the things that has struck me, and which I […]
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