The documentary "Bringing it Home" explores the potential benefits of industrial hemp and follows Anthony Brenner's quest to build a non-toxic home for his daughter using hemp-based materials. It features commentary from experts on hemp's environmental benefits like being carbon negative and providing a sustainable alternative to wood. The film shows how Brenner built the nation's first hemp house in 2010, demonstrating hempcrete's ability to regulate moisture and provide a toxin-free, energy efficient home. It aims to educate viewers on hemp's potential to transform the construction industry and make homes healthier for occupants.
A photo essay was developed by the students of Urban Stewards at Great River School for the use of The Daily Planet. The photo essay outlines the information in support of the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom including, background, quotes, and importance of the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom
O Prof. Timothy Beatley trabalha com o conceito da RESILIÊNCIA URBANA, conceito este que assenta na prevenção do risco no planeamento urbano, da mitigação do risco nas intervenções durante catástrofes e eventos extremos e da regeneração dos sistemas urbanos. Trata-se de um conceito extremamente actual, poderoso e politicamente oportuno. A sua visão é contagiosa e geradora de consensos.
A photo essay was developed by the students of Urban Stewards at Great River School for the use of The Daily Planet. The photo essay outlines the information in support of the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom including, background, quotes, and importance of the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom
O Prof. Timothy Beatley trabalha com o conceito da RESILIÊNCIA URBANA, conceito este que assenta na prevenção do risco no planeamento urbano, da mitigação do risco nas intervenções durante catástrofes e eventos extremos e da regeneração dos sistemas urbanos. Trata-se de um conceito extremamente actual, poderoso e politicamente oportuno. A sua visão é contagiosa e geradora de consensos.
Academic, Activist or Entertainer? Balancing Objectives in the Design of Envi...gamesfornature
Paul Steinberg´s presentation during the GamesforNature Workshop, held on November 2011 in Cambridge, UK. Find more about GamesforNature at www.gamesfornature.org
The designers challenge (speech by David Orr)Note This is the .docxmehek4
The designer's challenge (speech by David Orr)
Note: This is the commencement address to the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, on May 14, 2007, given by David Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, and the James Marsh Professor at Large, University of Vermont. Professor Orr is nationally recognized as a leader in environmental education, ecological literacy, and environmental design.
Dean Hack, distinguished faculty of the School of Design, honored guests, and most important, you the members of the class of 2007. It is a great privilege to stand before you on your graduation day.
As a Penn alumnus I feel a deep sense of affection for this institution and for this place. My own interest in design was kindled here long ago by Ian McHarg who as much as anyone was the founder of modern landscape design and the larger field of ecological design. His book Design with Nature remains a classic statement of the art of intelligent inhabitation. From its founding, the city of Philadelphia has been home to a great deal of innovative urban design and experimentation now carried on here in the School of Design. You are a part of a great history and have inherited a legacy of which you may be justly proud. But the work of designers is now entering its critical and most important phase.
It is said that we are entitled to hold whatever opinions we choose, but we are not entitled to whatever facts we wish. Whatever opinions you may have, there are four facts that will fundamentally shape the world in which you will live and work.
The first is the fact that we spend upwards of 95% of our time in houses, cars, malls, and offices. We are becoming an indoor species increasingly shut off from sky, land, forests, waters, and animals. Nature, as a result is becoming more and more an abstraction to us. The problem is most severe for children who now spend up to eight hours each day before a television or computer screen and less and less time outdoors in nature. Author Richard Louv describes the results as “nature deficit disorder”—the loss of our sense of rootedness in place and connection to the natural world. In some future time, it is not farfetched to think that disconnected and rootless we would become unhinged in a fundamental way and that is a spiritual crisis for which there is no precedent.
Second, when Benjamin Franklin walked the streets of Philadelphia there were fewer than 1 billion of us on Earth. The human population is now 6.5 billion and will likely crest at 9 or 10 billion. One and a half billion live in the most abject poverty, while another billion live in considerable wealth. One billion suffer from the afflictions of eating too much while others suffer from malnutrition. When I was a graduate student at Penn the ratio of richest to poorest was said to be 35:1. It is now approaching 100:1 and growing. The problem of a more crowded world is not just about what ecolo ...
If the question is asked “What is Love Canal? Why is it important?” the answer could be simply put, it is an incomplete canal, or just a trench, built in western New York state in the 1890s. From the 1930s through the 1950s, it was used as a chemical waste dump. The surrounding land was then sold and used for residential purposes, and soon people began complaining about strange odours and possible health problems. Since the late 1970s, many studies have been done to ascertain whether any health problems can be traced to the waste dumped into LoveCanal.
It is significant because it was the first case concerning hazardous waste disposal and its possible health effects that received major national attention. The information in this site is drawn primarily from two publications: Monitoring the Community for Exposure and Disease, a report to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (Nicholas Ashford, Principal Investigator, and Linda Schierow, Project Manager, Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, 1991) and Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (Adeline Gordon Levine, Toronto: D.C. Heath, 1982). Other information is drawn from materials listed in the other Love Canal Resources sections.
The Love Canal neighbourhood is located in the city of Niagara Falls, in western New York State. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the south-eastern corner of the city. Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighbourhood Bergholtz Creek to the north and the Niagara River one-quarter mile to the south. Open fields are to the east, and the western border is 92nd Street. The canal itself is enclosed by 97th, 99th, Colvin and Frontier Streets.
Visual Design, Propaganda, and Consumer CultureKaren Parker
Discussing the use of visual design in advertising as a means of promoting a consumer culture; looking to Edward Bernays development of psychological advertising techniques
Academic, Activist or Entertainer? Balancing Objectives in the Design of Envi...gamesfornature
Paul Steinberg´s presentation during the GamesforNature Workshop, held on November 2011 in Cambridge, UK. Find more about GamesforNature at www.gamesfornature.org
The designers challenge (speech by David Orr)Note This is the .docxmehek4
The designer's challenge (speech by David Orr)
Note: This is the commencement address to the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, on May 14, 2007, given by David Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, and the James Marsh Professor at Large, University of Vermont. Professor Orr is nationally recognized as a leader in environmental education, ecological literacy, and environmental design.
Dean Hack, distinguished faculty of the School of Design, honored guests, and most important, you the members of the class of 2007. It is a great privilege to stand before you on your graduation day.
As a Penn alumnus I feel a deep sense of affection for this institution and for this place. My own interest in design was kindled here long ago by Ian McHarg who as much as anyone was the founder of modern landscape design and the larger field of ecological design. His book Design with Nature remains a classic statement of the art of intelligent inhabitation. From its founding, the city of Philadelphia has been home to a great deal of innovative urban design and experimentation now carried on here in the School of Design. You are a part of a great history and have inherited a legacy of which you may be justly proud. But the work of designers is now entering its critical and most important phase.
It is said that we are entitled to hold whatever opinions we choose, but we are not entitled to whatever facts we wish. Whatever opinions you may have, there are four facts that will fundamentally shape the world in which you will live and work.
The first is the fact that we spend upwards of 95% of our time in houses, cars, malls, and offices. We are becoming an indoor species increasingly shut off from sky, land, forests, waters, and animals. Nature, as a result is becoming more and more an abstraction to us. The problem is most severe for children who now spend up to eight hours each day before a television or computer screen and less and less time outdoors in nature. Author Richard Louv describes the results as “nature deficit disorder”—the loss of our sense of rootedness in place and connection to the natural world. In some future time, it is not farfetched to think that disconnected and rootless we would become unhinged in a fundamental way and that is a spiritual crisis for which there is no precedent.
Second, when Benjamin Franklin walked the streets of Philadelphia there were fewer than 1 billion of us on Earth. The human population is now 6.5 billion and will likely crest at 9 or 10 billion. One and a half billion live in the most abject poverty, while another billion live in considerable wealth. One billion suffer from the afflictions of eating too much while others suffer from malnutrition. When I was a graduate student at Penn the ratio of richest to poorest was said to be 35:1. It is now approaching 100:1 and growing. The problem of a more crowded world is not just about what ecolo ...
If the question is asked “What is Love Canal? Why is it important?” the answer could be simply put, it is an incomplete canal, or just a trench, built in western New York state in the 1890s. From the 1930s through the 1950s, it was used as a chemical waste dump. The surrounding land was then sold and used for residential purposes, and soon people began complaining about strange odours and possible health problems. Since the late 1970s, many studies have been done to ascertain whether any health problems can be traced to the waste dumped into LoveCanal.
It is significant because it was the first case concerning hazardous waste disposal and its possible health effects that received major national attention. The information in this site is drawn primarily from two publications: Monitoring the Community for Exposure and Disease, a report to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (Nicholas Ashford, Principal Investigator, and Linda Schierow, Project Manager, Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, 1991) and Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (Adeline Gordon Levine, Toronto: D.C. Heath, 1982). Other information is drawn from materials listed in the other Love Canal Resources sections.
The Love Canal neighbourhood is located in the city of Niagara Falls, in western New York State. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the south-eastern corner of the city. Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighbourhood Bergholtz Creek to the north and the Niagara River one-quarter mile to the south. Open fields are to the east, and the western border is 92nd Street. The canal itself is enclosed by 97th, 99th, Colvin and Frontier Streets.
Visual Design, Propaganda, and Consumer CultureKaren Parker
Discussing the use of visual design in advertising as a means of promoting a consumer culture; looking to Edward Bernays development of psychological advertising techniques