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I agree and have found a website called http://www.gridalternative.org which seems to be like a Habitat for Humanities type deal except with installing solar. I have to read more on it.

You may want to gain understanding of Deltalok as related to our waterside Landscape Architecture Practice. Deltalok is the manufacturer and supplier of a green bioengineering methodology and system for building 3 dimensional mechanically interlocked soft vegetated earth-scaping systems for erosion control, retaining walls, slope stability &…[Read more]

Green Infrastructure systems like Deltalok Ecological Engineered Solutions provide structural vegetation options for stormwater management, detention ponds, creek naturalization projects, etc

Look At Deltalok. You can use Deltalok to protect roots above grade and provide habitat I’ve atttached image that may be of use.

Funny, I was just looking for the same thing yesterday. A Google search for “Solar Training” gives a lot of responses. Its becoming apparent to me that learning solar design would require some real field experience and so may not lend itself very well to long distance learning. I hope this thread stays active for a while and we get some feedback…[Read more]

Hey Jessie,
Just so you know I have very limited exposure to SketchUp and so I dont know too much about it. If I’m wrong, I hope someone corrects me.
With that being said, I’m pretty sure you can either import PDF files or CAD files into this program and create a 3D drawing. What I have been working with is Google SketchUp and I dont see a need to…[Read more]

Stephanie has what I think is the best established org to reach out to. Cameron Sinclair, the founder of Arch. for Humanity have been specializing in constructed relief efforts for many years.

While many of their projects have be architecturally based, he is planning on broadening into landscape for 2010.

You can contact him/them via twitter…[Read more]

The last office that I worked for we used mostly Photoshop to do renderings. We were able to creat a pdf file of our Cadd file and then drop it into a PS file and start coloring. Eventually what we did in our office, so that all of our plans looked mostly uniform was to creat a template of trees (flowering, autumn, summer) which could be cut and…[Read more]

Thanks – will check it out!

the University of Virginia just completed a big project daylighting a creek – very big deal- through the university..Check it out – very successful – they have a very good LA on staff..(last I checked!)