All greened out after West Coast Green
On a press pass, I managed to attend the final day of West Coast Green, a green building conference in San Francisco. It's a west coast version of the Northeast's…
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October 7, 2010
The Art of Effluvia (a toilet crib sheet)
OK, I can just hang up my hat. I've written hundreds of pages on ecological toilet options, while Molly Danielsson shows she can create a poster tidily summing up a…
October 7, 2010
October nutrient harvest
These pumpkins seeded themselves in the gardens at Pecks Boats (where Ecovita resides) on Cape Cod by way of compost. They're an heirloom variety that's good for both pies and…
September 30, 2010
Be a clean energy developer—in good company
Check out the San Francisco Energy Cooperative. It's a democratic-but-not-governmental-or-nonprofit energy-development business based on the cooperative model prevalent in parts of Europe. On Tuesday, I met founder Evan Wynns, who…
September 30, 2010
Creative reuse, my new handbag, and the iBra
Behold the near-perfect purse. I now can see the contents and readily find the ringing cell phone, the pens, the reading glasses, etc., that used to hide in the black…
September 30, 2010
The Car Electric
Every day, Sally Ahnger plugs a cord from her electric Toyota RAV4 into a special outlet in her garage. Her house is powered in part by several photovoltaic solar panels…
September 26, 2010
Reviving this blog with a remembrance: Malcolm Wells, gentle architect
Malcolm Wells, architect of buildings that harmonized with their surroundings—by being literally embedded in their surroundings—died in November. Or as a friend put it, "he returned to the earth." Here's…
July 25, 2010