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Naomi Zettl & Andreas Kunert, are partners in life and business. As two artists, their partnership is creative and dynamic, with complimentary gifts in observation, design, sculpture and business. What we have here is a beautiful work of ancient art of stone. Edible City: Grow The Revolution. Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world.
Introducing a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system, Edible City digs into their unique perspectives and transformative work, finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems. Inspirational, down-to-earth and a little bit quirky, Edible City captures the spirit of a movement that’s making real change and doing something truly revolutionary: growing the model for a healthy, sustainable local food system. Share: Comments comments GIYGrow Food Not Lawns. How To Grow Shiitake Mushrooms at Home. How To Grow Shiitake Mushrooms at Home. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition: The European portal for energy efficiency in buildings. Guidebook for Strong ImplementationA guidebook to navigate the EU Energy Efficiency Directive The EU Energy Efficiency Directive outlines a framework of measures in order for the EU to reach its 20% energy savings target by 2020 and pave the way for more energy efficiency improvements beyond that date.
Now that the Directive has entered into force, Member States must transpose it into national law and implement the many requirements in the legislation before the 2020 deadline. Guidebook for Strong Implementation. Your guidebook to navigate the EU Energy Efficiency Directive The EU Energy Efficiency Directive outlines a framework of measures in order for the EU to reach its 20% energy savings target by 2020 and pave the way for more energy efficiency improvements beyond that date. Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil. The Metabolist routine. This article was originally published in Domus 969 / May 2013. Magic Stairwell.
Living Fences: How-To, Advantages and Tips - Modern Homesteading. Fences on your farm or homestead define property boundaries and separate production zones (garden, pasture, orchard).
They provide privacy and security from animal (and perhaps human) intruders. Better Farm: The 'Humanure' Compost Toilet System. Whether you 're hosting an event and need a few extra porta-potties, in need of a toilet out by your work room or garage, re-doing your camp on the lake and lack a bathroom, or if you're ready to transition from a water-based septic or sewer system, the "humanure" compost toilet is a simple, cheap, ecologically responsible way to deal with human waste.
First, the stats: Residential toilets account for approximately 30 percent of indoor residential water use in the United States—equivalent to more than 2.1 trillion gallons of water consumed each year. (EPA)Over the course of your lifetime, you will likely flush the toilet nearly 140,000 times. A Walk Around Britain » The Flowing Britain Trust. A charity dedicated to the Heritage Drinking Waters of Britain.
Ed and Will and friends are forming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, devoted to monitoring, enhancing and championing British drinkable (and bathable) ancient and natural waters i.e. springs and wells. We believe everyone deserves access to safe natural drinking water, within walking distance of their home. The Aims – To provide water choices in a tap on/tap off world – To offer improved health through detailed analysis of natural waters. Superuse: meet the Dutch architects transforming the world with waste. Architect - Job opportunities. What are the chances of getting a job?
Average Chances of getting a job as an architect are average, with demand slowly increasing as the building industry begins to recover. While demand for architects slowed as a result of the 2008-2009 economic recession, and a related drop in construction activity, the number of registered architects is on the rise again. Jobs Abroad > Countries. Opportunities Overseas Expo - London, 6-7 July 2013. Invalid quantity.
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Turning on fancy edge effects and other doodads will slow you down when your model gets big. When you’re working on a big model, you want to make sure that you’re using a style whose Edge Settings panel looks like the one in the image below. Everything but "Edges" should be turned off. The Face Settings panel is where you can choose not to display Transparency. Essay: Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability. Can products be made hackable, or are all products hackable? At our panel at DIS2004, Anne Galloway defined designing for hackability as "allowing and encouraging people to make technologies be what they want them to be.
" Building Houses or Creating Communities? · Sustainable Development Commission. In its first thematic review, the SDC scrutinises the Sustainable Communities Plan, launched by the Labour Government in 2003. The report, based on site visits and interviews with local authorities, developers and residents, assesses whether the Government has delivered on its promise to create sustainable communities. Building houses or creating communities?
Praises the way in which Ministers at the Department for Communities and Local Government have addressed sustainability issues, and identifies some impressive examples of good practice. Previous Winners and Finalists. An Open-City resource. RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security. Tradical - Building lime innovation. INTRODUCTION TO WALLS Wall designs. After 2,000 years, courtyard houses are all the rage again. Discovering Joanna Macy: the Work that Reconnects. Work That Reconnects Network — Take part in the healing of our world! Carbon Omissions: why we need to start talking about consumption. The Work that Reconnects: spiraling towards sustainability. Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Passive design for daylight in a home.