Archive for the 'sustainability' Category
Now we know the Mall owners are scared, really scared, of new competition (revised 15 November 2007)
Here’s an interesting and important legal decision that will have some very real urban design/architectural implications. It’s yet another example of small, local and very particularized developments eclipsing centralized, consolidated, and homogenized ones.
It’s also interesting from another point of view: what information we get from this lawsuit. Lawsuits are actually very [...]
While researching the previous article, I had come across this pronouncement from the Vatican, which was a long time coming, but is very important because of the numbers that can be mobilized and the wide audience that will now be more receptive to environmental issues:
Climate change int’l concern, a moral imperative to protect environment, Vatican [...]
The minimal Katrina cottages are appealing to many that weren’t the target demographic at all. Many are discovering that they don’t want a McMansion, or anything even close to it, and are very happy to have something that is small, well designed and not too expensive to heat, and capable of fitting on a [...]
The United States Green Building Council’s green building rating system (LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) has driven the development of many sustainable building products, increased awareness of what needs to be done to make buildings less damaging to the environment, and caused thousands of buildings to be built to better environmental standards than [...]
An interesting paper, by Jonathan Remy Nash, which hypothesizes that the precautionary principle may have legal standing, based on current case law. Not at all an insignificant issue, considering the refusal of the present US administration to give adequate credence to environmental concerns, and that many environmental issues will therefore be tried in the [...]
There was so much made of the possibility that Iraq had WMD’s that it’s really amazing that no one is making anything at all of WMD’s that have been found in China. But there is one there with some particularly alarming features:
This WMD has:
1. the capability of inflicting millions of dollars of damage [...]
Amartya Sen had observed that a Free Press is the very best weapon against hunger. There has never been, he asserts, a famine in a modern nation that has both a Free Press and multi-party democracy. I had wondered a while back (in this post: The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks) [...]
John Robb’s book Brave New War is out, for awhile now, and I’ve just read some excerpts and reviews. I have every expectation that it is an excellent book, but of course I do have to read it first. I had enjoyed being a frequent commentator over at Global Guerillas and I enjoyed [...]
Well, it seems that the number of bees dying is increasing, and has spread to Canada and to Europe. It’s hardly possible that a pesticide is responsible, given the differing usage patterns among EU and North America. The event has already become critical, as just a little less than about 1/3 of the [...]
The Green Party in the United States hasn’t made much progress at all. It is even seen by some as doing a favor to the Republicans, by displacing Democratic votes. But here it is in Canada, working with another mainstream party, and furthering it’s own goals, too. It’s high time [...]
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