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 …

Stemming the Loss of Heritage and/or Sparing the Environment. What’s Embodied Energy Got to Do With It? Read more »

Washington Post (print ed.) headline today: “What’s behind the spread of solar? Peer pressure.” I’d have thought it’s because the price of panels has dropped so dramatically. From the article: “The installation of one additional solar photovoltaic roftop project within …

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Beleaguered Liberia (Ebola) will receive $150M in aid from Norway in exchange for Liberia’s cessation of clear-cutting its rain forest. Now that’s progressive! This negotiation is a payment for ecosystem services. Negotiations of this kind follow a rationale known as …

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Couple of interesting pieces in newspapers last week. Flooding– A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists warns of cities at risk of regular flooding in years to come. Some may view UCS as left-leaning politically. Perhaps you can edify me …

Flooding. And, a Nobel. Read more »

1956 Ford F100 Emblem

Some who know me know why I have an affinity for FoMoCo. For one, I grew up in Motown. I even knew a Ford or two, including a racy Cougar. So, the Baltimore Sun picked up a piece about Ford originally printed …

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The marine environment is under attack, globally. First news: regional. Second: global. While the spotted sturgeon are resurgent in the Chesapeake Bay, the rockfish population has fallen. For more, click here. What’s caused me to post is news today: “Humans …

How Could It Be? Marine and Other Wildlife Habitats in Very Big Trouble! Read more »