This summer semester I’m taking a global sustainability class and I was just reading about Farming the Cities.
Urban farming is generally pretty awesome, I can’t wait for it. In a way, it might render the areas outside of major cities mostly useless. Well that’s harsh, I shouldn’t say useless; But [...]
Archive for the 'Green' Category
My new ride.
06Jun08When I was at Veggie Bite on Milwaukee the other night (I love that place now, in case you haven’t noticed)… I saw this guy with a rickshaw charging a small fare for carting people around in this little contraption.
It reminded me of India of course, when I saw it, but then I [...]
Today, Swapnil, Matt and I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park.
I’ve already seen the museum before (I’m not a huge fan to tell you the truth), but we went specifically this week with the intent to see the Green + Wired home exhibit.
Michelle Kaufmann, a well known prefab/modular [...]
Happy Earth Day
22Apr08Happy Earth Day people.
In Kansas City, I used to volunteer at the Earth Walk in the Park and managed to drag Rich and Vinita out (I think that was the toughest feat of all, honestly). Last year, I went to the Earth Day cleanup at Humboldt Park, albeit briefly.
Sadly, this year I’ve regressed into [...]
I couldn’t be more excited about my topic for design analysis this semester. Our group is collectively taking apart the “Alternative Dwellings” market. That means we’re doing research on contemporary prefab, modernist, modular, temporary post-emergency housing, automated houses (that one’s for you, Will), and mobile homes (RVs).
In our initial research, we learned about [...]
Prophetic. Jeepers.
18Jan08“Our enormously productive economy … demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. we need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”
– Victor Lebow, 1955
Someone just sent me [...]
This guy is my hero…
28Dec07… Not because his car is particularly good looking, because it definitely got beat with the ugly stick a few times, but because he adapted an old (1992!) car to enable him to hypermile by changing the body style of the car– No engine mods necessary. This is what Amory Lovins has been campaigning [...]
GreenDimes and Catalog Choice
04Nov07Wow, I don’t know why I am slow to find this one, but this is huge for me.
I vehemently detest junk mail. I hate seeing it, smelling it, and pulling it out of my mailbox. I hate the physical act of spending brain cycles triaging mail desperately trying to separate the signal from [...]
vegetable Napoleon with tomato coulis
flickr credit: Amelia PS
I use a variety of excuses when people ask me why I am vegetarian. Actually, I mostly got asked why I was a vegetarian this past summer when I was in the PRC. One excuse that I used was that it doesn’t [...]
photo credit: servo.
Today, at the Institute of Design, Chris Bernard, Joe Dizney, and David McGaw held a Teaming workshop, that was illuminating and a very welcome start to the school year.
Classes here start on Monday, and everyone is looking to start the year off with good team practices.
We started the workshop with a presentation by [...]
Aha! I knew it.
13Jul07See, I told you Beijing is ridiculously polluted and it makes me miserable. I have proof now.
Kevin sent me this article today: “For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard”
I feel really awful for those Olympic runners. I wonder why they would ever decide to have the games held there, of all places.
A beautiful day to paint the grass
… because you can always paint your side….
I may be sheltered, I realize, but I have never seen fertilizer that is this vividly green. This, my friends, is nook-yuh-lar green, and it is a bit scary that the hotel worker here is using a power sprayer to [...]
Waste.
18Jun07
Hummer in Shanghai
Originally uploaded by quami77
When you’re in a country of so many people, you have to learn to deal with lack of personal space. There isn’t always abundance, so you have to make do with what you have. I have seen remarkable reuse of containers, objects that one buys at the [...]
On our way to the greenest city!
24May07New recycling bins in Bucktown
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago announced that he wanted to make Chicago the Greenest city ever. It would appear that lately, steps have been taken to actually make this a possibility. For instance, recently our street (and many other streets in our neighborhood of Bucktown have [...]
Earth Day 2007
22Apr07Hey everyone, Happy Earth Day 2007!
If you are in Chicago, here is a list of events that are taking place, available from Treehugger.com:
If you are in NYC, Chicago, or San Francisco, Here’s a link to the GREEN APPLE festival.
I’m going to go out and enjoy the day… Have fun!
