2008 September October Sustainable Blueprint
Slow Food Wrap
At first blush the challenge seemed ridiculous: Turn 50,000 square feet of raw space at San Francisco’s Fort Mason into a gleaming gourmet pavilion. The materials had to be free or really cheap, sustainable or at least recycled, have a connection to food, and preferably come from someplace local. Oh, and the installation timeline: three […]
Playing with Blocks
The EcoBlock, which combines multiple environmental technologies, began as an alternative model for development in China (September/October 2006). The first is scheduled to be built in the coastal city of Qingdao, host to the 2008 Olympic sailing competition and home of Tsingtao beer. But Harrison Fraker’s team at the College of Environmental Design, which developed […]
Basics of the Sustainability Initiative
The Sonoma County Sustainability Initiative has two broad objectives: establish the county as a landscape-scale laboratory to test greenhouse gas reduction strategies, and greatly reduce carbon emissions within the county. These are the working goals of the initiative: Adopt practices in agriculture, forestry, and land-use that will sequester carbon equal to half the county’s transportation-related […]
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