What Do You Mean By Green?

Who felt first that we need to go green? When exactly were we really green? When exactly will we be completely green? We are heading towards a future where everything will start all over again. Entire earth will sink in molten polar ice and a new nature will take shape mostly without ‘human’ help! Does anyone really [...]

Quality of Life vs. Environmental Effects

It is hard to think of a time in our history when we, as Americans, have been able to develop and “advance” the quality of our lives without polluting the environment at the same time. It is natural for the core to expand through population and economic growth. This expansion has also been tied into [...]

Four tales or sins of Repeating History

Four tales or sins of Repeating History Mistake of Transfer Inferiority of Local Work or the Grass is Always Greener Delusions of Grandeur Paranoia or the Architecture Fear In writing and studying architectural history as it applies to sustainability one can quickly be exposed to four tales that Professor Pamela H. Simpson writes of in [...]

Thinking like a Mountain – Aldo Leopold

A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night. It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the adversities of the world. Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well) pays heed to that [...]