Great upcycling gift from my mom. Left with old curtains and within a week napkins and table runner arrive in the mail. #sustainability (at Riggs Family Home)
Tag: sustainability
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Working on some publications using graphics and data from my dissertation (2011) focused walkability and housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Walkability Report Generates Questions
Walkability Report Generates Questions
New walkability benchmarking report out with some provocative results. I’m curious how Alaska can be the highest ranking state with regard to walking levels, but not have a city that ranks in the top 50.
Also, not surprising, the places with the most walking look like they have the most bike-ped related fatalities, but such inferences generate their own set of questions. All are significant areas of opportunity for research.
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My wife and son during in the midst of our holiday ‘love miles’ (Monbiot, 2007).
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But How Many Folks Actually Compost These Photo of a disposable coffee cup John S Lens, Alfred Infrared Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic
Sea Ranch a ‘Beautiful Example of Environmental Architecture’
“ the totality of The Sea Ranch offers an example of an environmentally sensitive development and place that is also sublimely beautiful…” I find this quote by Sarah Williams Goldhagen in the New Republic to be very provocative and am wondering how she objectively supports such a strong claim. Her article mentions nothing about sustainability… Continue reading Sea Ranch a ‘Beautiful Example of Environmental Architecture’
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A classic CA landscape that has underscored the environmental movement Kaimal Mark II Lens, BlacKeys SuperGrain Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic
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Beautiful sunrise this morning
Freeze Your Jeans to be Green
To save water, “Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all — the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.”
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What a riot! Either product design gone completely mad or some futurist trend I am not Getting; and isn’t the beauty (and true sustainability) of plumbing that you don’t have to plug it in? (Amazing what water pressure can do!) Will it really come to having to to reboot the toilet?