A giant mechanical earthworm named “Lady Bird” has been carving a cavernous storage conduit beneath the Potomac from Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant in southwest Washington, DC (just south of Bolling Field) toward Nationals Park, creating the first of several …
Cleaner DC-Area Rivers – The “Lady Bird” TBM. (More on Resiliency.) Read more »
This green thing has really gotten me. When reading Hedrick Belin’s opinion piece in The Washington Post last week about Donald Trump’s vision for a golf course remake along the Potomac, I was surprised by how deep my feeling of regret …
Fore! Archie Bunker on the Links. Trump Impacts the Potomac River, and Local Residents. Read more »
Near year’s end last I wrote about PARK(ing) Day. The other day The Washington Post featured a piece called “A ‘parklet’ parks itself on K Street NW. Subtitle: “To mixed reviews, District allows street meter spaces to become zones of …
Updates on Previous Posts – Curbed Relaxation and Drought Read more »
This blog is about sustainability and, as regular readers know, that includes buildings, infrastructure, lifestyle and the environment. So, pretty broad. This post reports on both building and lifestyle- Great news out of Annapolis, MD! SGT Adam Keys last week …
Smart Homes for Seriously Wounded Warriors! Payback for Service and Sacrifice. Read more »
About a year-and-a-half ago, the largest fuel cell generation plant in North America was unveiled in Bridgeport. There are five FuelCell Energy DFC3000™ systems combined, called Dominion Bridgeport, producing 14.9 MW of power from the downtown Bridgeport area just off I-95. …
Fuel Cell Technology – Powering Neighborhoods. And Your Ride. (+ late-breaking news) Read more »
This post is about sustainable golf course design with several nods to golfer expectations at Chambers Bay. “The land set aside for the golf course was degraded after a century of industrial usage but contained bold landforms shaped by wind …
2015 U. S. Open Over? Not Yet–Here Anyway. Bring Your Clubs to Play It Again. Read more »
A recent article, “Smells Like Hawaii (and Benzyl Acetate): Revealing the Chemicals in Glade’s Fragrances,” brings good news and relief to those of us who do our best to recommend commercial and household cleaning products that are green. Read: (a) …
Chemistry Disclosed in Household/Personal Care Products. (Great!) Read more »
Just opening at the National Museum of Women Artists (NMWA) in Washington, DC, through September 13th, is the show called “Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015.” From the exhibition catalog: “Collectively, their work addresses modern society’s complex relationship with the environment, …
“Organic Matters…” What Select Women Artists Are Saying About the Environment Read more »
As is increasingly known, the price of solar panels has fallen dramatically over the past several years, both for general and hot water electric power generation. At the same time, the efficiency of panels has risen dramatically. One solar panel …
A recent Washington Post article (cleverly titled by one of its editors), “Fake grass gains ground in California…,” brings to mind another piece on the subject back in December. As recently blogged, CA is in a tremendous, historic drought. Much …
Using Artificial Turf in Drought-Stricken CA. Related worries? Read more »