From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Passive Project Update: Completion is Imminent

November 18, 2009

This is just a quick update on the Passive House Project which is wrapping up this week. This has, for a variety of reasons, been a hurry up and wait kind of project, and right now we are in final hurry up mode. A crazy amount of stuff is getting wrapped up each day. These [...]

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Transit Oriented Development- Laying Down The Tracks of the Future

November 17, 2009

Yvette, as most of you know, is interning with us. This is post is part of her ongoing contribution to our blog conversation. Read it and grace her with some of your expertise and ideas in the comments. From November 2nd to November11th Philadelphia’s highways, bridges, and local roads were unusually congested with frustrated commuters [...]

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The Extra Bedroom Problem

November 16, 2009

We tend toward large homes in the US and this tendency has become more and more pronounced despite the shrinking of our average family size. Much of this growth is probably a result of cheap space and cheap energy. There is simply a lack of significant economic incentive toward modesty. Land is relatively abundant and [...]

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Land Ethics- An Idea of the Past or a Solution for the Future?

November 2, 2009

Yvette, as many of you know by know, is interning with us. This is her second post (catch up with the first). Read it and grace her with some of your expertise and ideas in the comments. With every year that passes it seems like more rich farmland is being converted into sprawling residential developments [...]

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