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Andrew & The Land8…

So far I have given you a break down of what I need overall, and most of the system specifics. Today, I am going to run down the rest of the build.

Component #6: Power Supply

Part of planning for it is getting enough power.  New Egg has a calculator ( …

Who is Aldo Leopold?

A month ago, near the end of the fall semester, I mentioned to my students in advanced studio that I would not be in studio the following Monday.  I told them that I was taking a two-day training seminar so would not be in class.  They asked me what the seminar was about and I told them.  It was a seminar put on by the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the seminar was on the subject of teaching land ethics.  One of the students asked: “who is Aldo Leopold”.  I…

The California Academy of Sciences Green Roof sits on top of the world's greenest LEED-Platinum museum with the tagline that it's "the only place on the planet with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, and a 4-story rainforest all under one living roof."…

From today's edition of the Architect's Journal:

"2012 will go down as the year British landscape design reinvented itself. Two of the main talking points, the Olympics and green infrastructure, have put the emotive power of quality landscape design firmly in the public eye and in professional consciousness. ........

"The horticultural feast masterminded by the Olympic Delivery Authority’s John Hopkins and presented to a global audience by…

Citygarden drew me to St. Louis.

In 2010, I attended a National Building Museum: Spotlight on Design lecture led by Warren T. Byrd, Jr., FASLA, of the Charlottesville, VA-based landscape architecture firm…

I have two kids, ages almost 6 and 3, and while they love reading books, I enjoy reading their books as much if not more than they do.  I love the nostalgia and silliness of Dr.…