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I highly recommend this series on the Sundance Channel. It’s well produced, useful and inspiring ways people are affecting sustainability in all walks of life.

Some of the series is available on Netflix if you don’t get the Sundance Channel.

I absolutely hated math by 5th grade. I was just sure I did not understand and that I could not understand. The formulas, the methods made no sense to me. Music made sense though, and making things made sense. I could cook using fractions and ratios. I could sew using [...]

As green building radically changes the systems of the building in terms of heating, ventilation, and daylight, it really changes the overall form from the look that we’ve become accustomed to in large buildings during the last one hundred years.
The new San Fransisco Federal Building (watch the video to see it, it’s not [...]

Indoor Air Quality, often referred to as IAQ, is a fundamental issue of green building. For many years we’ve realized that the variety of toxic chemicals from household goods concentrates in our buildings and leads to respiratory problems like asthma and allergies. Much of our professional response has been to [...]

This is eighteen minutes of thought provoking information about coal in America. The biggest issue being that most Americans don’t realize how much power is coming from coal. Most Americans don’t realize that all the talk of “clean coal”, is a discussion about a completely untested method of injecting the carbon dioxide [...]

Time for yet another look back at the history of design and architecture. It’s absolutely fantastic, how some of the ancient structures were engineered, planned, and built, but without our modern tools.
One of the real technological wonders is the Parthenon. With scalable templates, huge work crews were able to create the [...]

How do you design & build a building that will last for 10,000 years? What if you have something that must be housed for 10,000 years?
It then becomes all about site. It’s all about the quality of the location, the aspects of the location, the experience of the location….
Most of the time, when [...]

China has places that are going green. Solar water heating makes sense.

David Macaulay wrote a series of books on architecture that captivated me as a child. The fully illustrated stories had a master builder as the main human character with the real focus of the book being the design and construction of the building itself. I was especially intrigued with engineering ideas that civilization seemed [...]