DW-GREEN Associates Blog: The 2014 Annual Report from WordPress
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Year: 2014
(umm…) Climate-Change Christmas Carols
Friends, leave such a theme to The New Yorker and writer Ethan Kuperberg! OH, THE WEATHER outside is frightful, The heat wave brutal and spiteful. Our crops have no water to grow— Let it snow, let it snow, let it …
PARK(ing) DAY + a green Gov. Hogan?
Back in September, PARK(ing) DAY was enacted worldwide. It was begun in 2005 by a San Francisco art and design studio, Rebar. It converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in the downtown. There have been memorable …
Seventh Generation. A “Responsible Business.”
This is a very interesting young company IMO. Seventh Generation is known for its green household and personal care products. Fact is that for St. Margaret’s Eco-Friendly Household Cleaning Products blueprint, developed by members of the church’s Environmental Missions Committee, …
one take on Future Mobile Living
A 20-something Austrian, Benedikt Stonawski, visited us last summer here in Baltimore. Tall, handsome, urbane and a fluent English speaker, Bennie was expanding his world experience by visiting L.A., Cleveland and several East Coast cities during summer break from his …
The 1st Solar Bike Path is (T)here…
Opening today in the town of Krommenie, the Netherlands, is a solar bike path–or, why not…a green road? This stretch is being called the first of its kind in the sphere of public works ownership. The path includes embedded solar …
“With these ‘watershed eyes’ we can view the sacredness…
Little Falls Watershed Alliance logo
of water from our Creator’s perspective.” This from the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake’s Kolya Braun-Greiner, MDiv, Project Coordinator, Trees for Sacred Places. Her piece in the current bulletin is so worthy that I want you to see a good share of …
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Cupless Running
From the always imaginative folks at Annapolis Green comes the suggestion that Hydra Pouches be substituted for paper cups at events like 10Ks, marathons or triathlons. What a sensible way to eliminate unnecessary waste! Do you have one? Use it …
Stemming the Loss of Heritage and/or Sparing the Environment. What’s Embodied Energy Got to Do With It?
Mies van der Rohe, Chicago apartment towers, 1951
Background– The other Saturday I was in NYC attending a day-long symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation program’s founding in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia. A good share of the program assumed the climate-preserving virtue …