EDL continues with Rancho Cielo Program

Print Reading and Modeling starts Tue. Jan 10, 2012.   Let's see what we come up with this time !  

Sand City Open House

Sand City Open House 1795 California Ave Sand City Sat. Dec 17th, 2011 , 5 - 10pm   A Multi-Dimensional Celebrational Extravaganza! Come to Sand City, where the dunes are huge, the women are frisky, the men are rich and handsome and, everyone is an artist ! Celebrate the solstice season and the coming of winter. Its Rick’s birthday (well, Dec 15), its a pre-Christmas solstice celebration and its an interactive, multi-artsy open house for an art studio/residence ...

Rancho Cielo Design Competition Posted

EcoLogic Design Lab with Rancho Cielo Youth Build Program

Rancho Cielo Youth Build Program  Realitree now collaborates with the Rancho Cielo Youth Campus and Hartnell College to run their 'at-risk' youth education program at the Rancho Cielo Campus in East Salinas, California. Realitree is developing curiculum, teaching a course titled 'Green Construction' and helping with fundraising efforts.  www.ranchocieloyc.org

MPC Model Photos 2009 Art Space London

Reviving Low Tech High Tech Architecture

John Ochsendorf MIT Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture proofs structurally stable, aesthetic structures built of mud as opposed to steel and concrete (reducing costs, energy consumption and pollution associated with traditional modern construction) See Smithsonian's With-Ancient-Arches-the-Old-is-New-Again “People assume that in the 21st century buildings should be made of titanium, because we have a narrow definition of progress. Maybe a 21st-century building is made out of dirt used in an intelligent and beautiful way.” Structural visualization ...

Living Building Challenge

Jason McLennan at Bioneers conference 10/17/09 More on the Living Building Challenge at http://www.cascadiagbc.org/lbc

House Plants, Living Walls and IAQ

While it’s well known that plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen through photosynthesis,  NASA's oft cited 1989 study showed that many houseplants also remove harmful elements such as amonia,  trichloroethylene, benzene, and formaldehyde from the air. In research designed to create a breathable environment for NASA orbiting space stations,  scientist Dr. Bill Wolverton discovered that houseplants are ...

EDL Radio Interview with Deborah Lindsey on Tomorrow Matters (Jan 18th 2009)

Thomas Rettenwender speaks with Pacific Grove Council member Deborah Lindsey about the Ecologic Design Lab and the current state of the green building industry. [audio:TM20090118edit.mp3]

Richard Register, President of Ecocity Builders, on Buildout vs Bailout

DON'T BAIL OUT, BUILD OUT OF OUR PRESENT ECONOMIC DEBACLE by Richard Register Once upon a time there was an economic disaster that laid low the United States of America and spread hardships from sea to shining sea and even out across the oceans blue. Then came a war of unprecedented proportions. But we beat back the Great Depression and won the Second World War. ...