How urban farms could solve future food problems https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/6/21/how-urban-farms-could-solve-future-food-problems Tenth of an acre permaculture … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – December 15, 2016
Guizhou – Mountain Forest Hotel: a vertical forest hotel so green that it may also purify the surrounding air http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/portfolios/guizhou-10-thousand-peaks-valley-project/ Paris “Mille Arbres” or … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition
Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – December 24, 2015 – Happy Merry New and Bah Humbug Edition
Homefarm - a conceptual proposal for the next generation of urban retirement housing. It presents a living and farming typology for Singapore (or elsewhere) that combines apartments and facilities for seniors with vertical urban … [Read more...]
Urban Agriculture
Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]
Cities Scale: Boston Living with Water
Cities scale is where real climate change adaptation is taking place, now, whether or not we have national or international agreements on greenhouse gases. Cities and regions have to deal with weather emergencies and, it turns out, … [Read more...]
Boston Can Learn Much from Other Cities in Transition – Even Belfast and Srebrenica
This fall, as a Senior Fellow in the McCormack Graduate School at UMASS Boston, I had the privilege of being an observer at an annual gathering of the Forum for Cities in Transition. The four day conclave was in Belfast, Northern … [Read more...]
Net Zero and Beyond
Cambridge, MA has been debating a net zero energy and/or emissions standard (http://www.netzerocambridge.org) for new buildings over 25,000 square feet since the Spring of 2013, partially because of an ecodistrict plan with MIT and others … [Read more...]
Reprogramming the City
There's a great exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects down by South Station called "Reprogramming the City" (http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/reprogramming-the-city/). It is all about small but significant design tweaks for urban … [Read more...]
Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems
On Monday January 30th, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a public meeting at Suffolk University, halfway between the State House and City Hall, to change the Boston zoning laws to allow for agriculture throughout the city, … [Read more...]