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Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would ...
Bioculture
Terralinguaconceptualizes ecology and conservation in broad ways, incorporating human cultures and languages into its vision of biological and environmental diversity. Rather than viewing the human relationship to nature as ...
Sonic Attack
Artist Iain Mott coordinates installation pieces that use mixed media--especially sound--to explore the connection between participant-audience members and the environment.
Past projects, recorded on the Reverberant site, have included Summoned Voices, a work ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome.
Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively ...
Whole Tree Architecture
Roald Gundersen's Whole Tree Architecture incorporates unmilled trees into design and construction, creating buildings that balance an organic sense of style with a unique approach to preservation and sustainable development. Gundersen ...
Arboreal Installations
In the early 1980s, Martin Orram imagined a project that would help the public recapture a sense of the wonder and poetry of nature. The original vision grew to ...
Green Web
A number of internet service providers and web hosting firms incorporate renewable energy and sustainable design into their business models.
Affordable Internet Services Online relies on solar panels to power its ...
The Poetry of Community
Virginia-based planning firm Sympoetica balances green design principles, a vibrant aesthetic sense, and respect for history with a usercentric approach to land use. The planners believe that designs based on ...
Community Forest
The Children & Elder Forest program promotes environmental preservation by building bridges between youths, seniors, and community groups. Based in McLean County in central Illinois, the nonprofit group plants native ...
In the Light
Daylighting blends sustainable design techniques, industrial psychology and ergonomics, and environmental awareness to create usable spaces that connect people to the outside world while reducing their energy demands. Using carefully ...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Freecycle Network began as a small effort linking non-profit groups and businesses in Tuscon, Arizona. Originally created to promote recycling among businesses and provide jobs for people in need, the group quickly found ...
A Walk in the Park
Friday, September 21, will be National Park(ing) Day. Originally developed by the San Francisco art collective REBAR, the event encourages cities to convert metered parking spaces into temporary ...
Blogging the Wasteland
Worst Places in the World combines Google Earth images with well-researched, insightful commentary on some of the globe's most unpleasant issues. The site documents environmental racism, conflict, and the spread ...
Energy Map of America
Where does our energy come from? The Energy Map of America is an interactive display of all the major sources of power superimposed on a political map of the ...