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Tag Archives: Sustainability
Nourishable Places
Nourishable Places grow a significant portion of their food within a few miles of where it is eaten, and could grow more in a long emergency. Today, the ingredients of an average meal in the US travel over 1,300 miles to get to your table, and that number is growing every day. The data for meals in the EU is probably fairly similar. Currently, very few places in the United States are Nourishable Places, but as the industrializations of China and India continue, resulting in a billion new cars competing for gas over the next several years, the cost of food transportation will become much more significant.
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Posted in Climate Change, Culture, human scale, land use, Livability, Placemaking, Science, Sustainability, Uncategorized, urban design, urban planning, What if?
Tagged bio-intensive, development, farmland, food, food transportation, local food, long emergency, nourishable places, original green, real estate value, steve mouzon, Sustainability, urban agriculture, urban farming
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Food for Thought: A Greek Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Continue reading
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Tagged Food for Thought, forethought, future generations, greek proverb, Sustainability
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Dubai: The Nemesis of Sustainability
There are a number of encouraging examples of cities trying to slowly evolve themselves into a vision of urban sustainability. Implementing bike infrastructure, upgrading the ecology of alternative transit, increasing recycling and addressing the state of our energy production systems are all noteworthy efforts being tackled by numerous cities around the world. But despite the show of goodwill, there are other examples that force one to wonder if we are simply taking two steps back for each that we take forward. The city of Dubai, rising in defiance to the surrounding environment of coastal deserts in the United Arab Emirates, stands as the hallmark of a digressing trend taking us farther away from the goals of a new cultural reality. As a poster child of modern ingenuity driven by the perpetual desire of humanity for unbounded excess, the city of Dubai casts a long shadow over our path to a greener future.
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3 Houses That Fit Their Climate Perfectly
Like all architects and designers I share a common curiosity about the innards of products, which often leads me to dissecting and disassembling them. I recently found sketches I had made of houses and their sections while visiting parts of India characterized by extreme climates. I revisited those sketches, this time looking through a lens of sustainability and environmental sensitivity.
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