The recent 2013 Living Future conference presented a new challenge. The event was a testimonial to the growth of a movement that started with making buildings less bad for the environment, to considering methods for constructing buildings and communities that are resilient to extreme weather and ever changing climate conditions. The challenges is for the
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Category Archives: Green Cities
A Living Building is a Learning Building Thanks to an invite by the Seattle AIA and its COTE, I learned firsthand about the inspiring, work-in-progress Bullitt Center. The presentation and hard-hat tour was an amazing opportunity to learn about this six-story, commercial building located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood – an area of Seattle known
http://youtu.be/rJW7zE8vRk0 My family and I recently returned from NYC where enjoyed a stroll along Section 2 of the High Line – an extraordinary historical, elevated-train-track, redevelopment project on Manhattan’s West Side. I can personally attest to the fact that the park’s designers, project team and key stakeholders have given the City’s residents and visitors another
Majora Carter shares some wonderful stories of people who are “taking limes and making limeade” (a green version of lemonade). They are not waiting for national or global solutions to trickle down to their communities. They are hometown heroes finding ways to solve unemployment, to give people new beginnings and to use entrepreneurship at the
Building an emerald city doesn’t take a Wizard but it does take a few vital cues from the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow, as I learned from our dynamic panelists, at our July ELUG*, not the least of which are courage, passion and knowledge. Lucia Athens, Sustainable Futures Strategist at CollinsWoerman Architects, nationally recognized speaker,
Included in my recent travels to the Northeast from the Pacific Northwest were visits with my 13-year-old twin boys to some fabulous institutions of higher learning: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Parsons New School for Design and Pratt Institute. Wearing both my mom and my green hats, I felt like a “mystery shopper” of sorts as I