http://landscapeurbanism.com/
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Follow this Site
Great new site discussing the progressive field of landscape urbanism and associated urbanism's i.e. sustainable, ecological, green, blue, red, they probably are even going to discuss new urbanism too . hey who knows anything is possible, follow and find out.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Grey Water
Adding to the individuals ablity to contribute to the greater good, a couple in L.A. have passed thru the city and built a grey water system for their home, the first in the city. This again made the local government to update their codes to the times and peoples wish to be environmentally conscious.
The water from the laundry machine, shower, bath tub and bath room sinks flow into the grey water system. Which feeds a grove of fruit trees, the system is all powered by gravity. As a safety measure there is a three way valve that can change the flow of water to the sewer if beach is ever used. Because of this system there annual sewer fee is reduced by 60%.
They have also installed a rain water cistern, capturing 1,500gallons of water.
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-frank-pasker-grit-leipert-house20110625,0,1908651.story?page=1&track=rss&dlvrit=104530
The water from the laundry machine, shower, bath tub and bath room sinks flow into the grey water system. Which feeds a grove of fruit trees, the system is all powered by gravity. As a safety measure there is a three way valve that can change the flow of water to the sewer if beach is ever used. Because of this system there annual sewer fee is reduced by 60%.
They have also installed a rain water cistern, capturing 1,500gallons of water.
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-frank-pasker-grit-leipert-house20110625,0,1908651.story?page=1&track=rss&dlvrit=104530
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Lets Start Farming
Great news , On May 3rd Salt Lake City passed an urban agriculture ordinance , allowing urban farms. You can also sell your own produce. I haven't read the ordinance yet, so I couldn't tell you the details. I can tell you a couple in the Liberty Wells area 1400S 400E , bought a lot next door and pushed an urban farm project, forcing the city to catch up.
What a great example of people following there dreams developing progressive sustainable updates to our local government.
Thank you Claudia and Nick Norton!
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=16111638
What a great example of people following there dreams developing progressive sustainable updates to our local government.
Thank you Claudia and Nick Norton!
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=16111638
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Oh ya more bike lanes
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51920673-78/council-councilman-path-west.html.csp
its great to see that Salt Lake is finding every possible way to add more bike lanes. And converting un-used railroad tracks to lanes is a great.
its great to see that Salt Lake is finding every possible way to add more bike lanes. And converting un-used railroad tracks to lanes is a great.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
200 South - the standard na sayers - attack !
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/51810687-90/east-bike-greenway-medians.html.csp
Oh how predictable the negative people are. Its going to kill small business, increase traffic we don't have any money. People see more of there surroundings on bike and on foot - do they know that ? Have these people ever gotten out of there car? Existing customers are still going to go to your store, and you will get more pop-in's if people are walking or biking. I don't care if it increases traffic, sorry if it takes 5 more minutes to get to where your going. The reality is that SLC has more lanes of travel then really needed compared to many other places, we don't need more lanes just for the half-en hour of traffic in the morning and afternoon. Oh and the traffic isn't bad at all! Try driving in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA and the many other places in the nation that I haven't driven in but have bad traffic like Chicago, Atlanta, New York City etc. Unfortunately , the last one is correct we don't have any money. That one's tricky. But if it was a perfect world we would have money for Education and Green Infrastructure. I can't think of anything else more important for the future!
The point again is to get people out of there car, reduce fuel consumption, reduce noise , reduce pollution.
Though I missed the meeting, unfortunately. I didn't realize they were planning on putting pathways through the existing planted medians East of 900E. Uh that's a little unnecessary, money you diffidently don't need to spend. Also after some thought and research, I believe that they should remove the outer car lanes West of 900E and use those as bike lanes, keep the cars in the center.
Oh how predictable the negative people are. Its going to kill small business, increase traffic we don't have any money. People see more of there surroundings on bike and on foot - do they know that ? Have these people ever gotten out of there car? Existing customers are still going to go to your store, and you will get more pop-in's if people are walking or biking. I don't care if it increases traffic, sorry if it takes 5 more minutes to get to where your going. The reality is that SLC has more lanes of travel then really needed compared to many other places, we don't need more lanes just for the half-en hour of traffic in the morning and afternoon. Oh and the traffic isn't bad at all! Try driving in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA and the many other places in the nation that I haven't driven in but have bad traffic like Chicago, Atlanta, New York City etc. Unfortunately , the last one is correct we don't have any money. That one's tricky. But if it was a perfect world we would have money for Education and Green Infrastructure. I can't think of anything else more important for the future!
The point again is to get people out of there car, reduce fuel consumption, reduce noise , reduce pollution.
Though I missed the meeting, unfortunately. I didn't realize they were planning on putting pathways through the existing planted medians East of 900E. Uh that's a little unnecessary, money you diffidently don't need to spend. Also after some thought and research, I believe that they should remove the outer car lanes West of 900E and use those as bike lanes, keep the cars in the center.
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