Citing more blackouts, wildfires and higher electricity rates, a growing number of homeowners are choosing to build homes that run entirely on solar panels and batteries.
How can Architects most effectively engage Clients and Design Teams to integrate climate and resilience strategies during the design phase?
Three skilled design professionals will respond to this question with a short presentation, followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A. Join us to hear how these practitioners from a variety of firm sizes and backgrounds adopt new approaches while they adapt to design in the Climate Age.
Myrna Melgar, the new District Seven supervisor and former president of the San Francisco Planning Commission, got lost trying to navigate the city’s building permit process.
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
New paint reflects 98% of sunlight as well as radiating infrared heat into space, reducing need for air conditioning
Refrigerants (HFCs, R-410A) used in most current AC units are being phased out because, although they have lower ozone-depleting substances (CFCs and HCFCs), the HFCs have dramatic global warming potential.
Scientists predict hotter heat waves and worse flooding in the decades ahead, but the catastrophe is evident everywhere this summer.
The International Blue Carbon Initiative is a coordinated, global program focused on mitigating climate change through the conservation and restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems.
There is now 13.8 Salesforce Towers or 815 Salesforce Tower floors worth of empty office space spread across San Francisco,