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Coherent Creation: February 2015
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While day dreaming about what really unfortunate design problems exist in my daily world, I was a little stumped. Which is weird, right? Honestly, most of them were. Sidewalks were inconveniently located, but still got you to a place just fine. A bus stop didn't have a shelter, but hey, it was a bus stop close to my work, so it wasn't all bad. An apartment without a pantry? So what was honestly dumb. While on the mail run across campus for work, it hit me. The heck is our campus doing with so much grass.
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Coherent Creation: LEED ND and Green Communities
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LEED ND and Green Communities. For our assignment this past week, we were asked to explore design guides and programs that are currently and that will be shaping the future of development. In particular, we took a look at the design criteria that was suggested in the pursuit of green communities. With so much of Urban Planning being focused on policy and the shaping of frameworks and plans, it was refreshing to revisit the human aspect of design and tactility in creating meaningful, sustainable places.
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Coherent Creation: January 2015
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This is where our leftovers go. And they will stay here. There is a nifty little chart here. That describes exactly how long it takes for a variety of commonly thrown away objects to decompose. Even the most common of plastic objects can take 10-30 years to decompose. That is a really long period of time. Diapers are even more frightening- 450 years. You see what the problem is here? Once again, I'm going to take a little trip back to my brief time in Canada. The City Today and your life as a Flâneur.
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Coherent Creation: A Larger Perspective-- Observations from the Great Salt Lake
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A Larger Perspective- Observations from the Great Salt Lake. Sailing on the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake is valuable. By the Great Salt Lake Council on the economics surrounding the Great Salt Lake concluded that after accounting for tourism, visitors, hunting, waste disposal, minerals and brine shrimp harvesting, the Great Salt Lake adds up to $94.8 million to Utah's economy every year. For perspective, a report. Black Rock in the late 1800's, near the current Great Salt Lake Marina. These open ...
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Coherent Creation: Conversation with Vicki Bennett
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Conversation with Vicki Bennett. On April second my Green Communities class had a chance to meet with and talking with Vicki Bennett, the Director of Sustainability for Salt Lake City. The experience to say the least, was fantastic. Https:/ www.linktv.org/programs/e2-green-for-all. Speaking of Democratic Design, I saw that phrase pop up yesterday in an article about Ikea, of all organizations. Http:/ www.dezeen.com/2015/03/24/ikea-flat-pack-refugee-shelters-go-into-production-better-shelter-unhcr/. LEED ...
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Coherent Creation: Leadership and the Biophilic City
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Leadership and the Biophilic City. For our blog post today we were to respond to the video we watched in class (or for me, watched at home thanks to a rescheduled doctor's appointment). The video was on a city that has been in the news recently with the passing of its metaphorical grandfather, Singapore. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? The link is for my readers who aren't members of my Green Communities class). In all honesty, my first thought was how I really need more plants in my apartment. Clearly, g...
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Coherent Creation: March 2015
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Goldsmith specifically told us to write this post as soon as possible after our class period on Thursday and here I am on a Monday night typing it out. Ah well. Our topic of choice is actually an in class exercise we took part in. After sitting in our normal seats that every college class determines by the second of week of school, our professor had us get up and divide the room into two many sections with a separate third section. I fairly solidly identify as male, but not in a typical sense. I left cla...
