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Robert , that sounds brilliant. Do you have an e mail address and mobile no for me so that I can make contact with you when we re in DC?
Looking forward meeting you
Regards

I would be happy to meet with you and show you some projects that one of my main clients are currently involved in. They have even done work for the IMF here in Washington. I’m available currently during those days and would enjoy meeting with you as I have done work internationally on three continents.

Whats ‘a Chicago’ ??

My advice: if you’re job searching, bypass the larger cities and look for growth opportunities in small, medium cities and towns–if your goal is to make a living. If you want to be a small fish in a big ocean and maybe do some cad for some very prestigious projects go for the big city.

There’s plenty of work on both sides…[Read more]

Houston has so much sprawl, it’s sprawl has sprawl…hence, ‘suburban sprawl’ 🙂

Chris– I don’t do lot farms 😉

I’ve heard others say that Houston is text book sprawl. Is that not correct?
Curious, not a challenge.

“Does more low density developed land create more work for LA’s?”
Compared to what? Landscape design for Paolo Soleri type arcologies—certainly. Designing urban forests for dense, walkable cities—probably. Producing landscape architecture design for transit oriented development—probably not. Is it another way for LA’s to make money—of cour…[Read more]

It is too general of a subject to rate as good or bad for landscape architects. …. and what is “good” for one landscape architect is not good for another.
The more simple development is, the more easily the design can be completed without a landscape architect involved – whether it is a residential planting bed, subdivision, park, or wh…[Read more]

I think you’re just being a contrarian.
I agree that virtually ANY development creates more work for LA’s and other allied professionals, even so-called ‘suburban sprawl.’ We could argue semantics on that one all day.
Further, I think it’s a bit of a cop-out (or youre trolling a bit) to say it’s all OK as long as you’re not violating HSW–that’s…[Read more]

Thanks to all: very helpful info.

I run CAD on a MacBook with Windows via Bootcamp. Love it. The Mac is so fast and stable, and there is no difference at all between Windows/Autocad on Mac and Windows on a PC.
 

Cad on  a mac using a vm is the same as a pc. 

I’m curious: what ‘brought’ you into environmental sciences in the first place? You say that you want a career involving sustainability and design but was it a love of the outdoors, a desire to “do something good in the world”, or “what”? Perhaps by reflecting on your free time interests, you may narrow down which route would be best for you.
It’s…[Read more]

Thanks. I’ll keep an eye out this summer.

Agreed. But in this case, “we” need to do a “ton” of scanning of older, needed documents that were never in a pdf format, and if we sent them out for scanning, we could have paid multi-fold for a printer or two. 

You might want to look at environmental engineering. It can combine sustainability,aesthetics and scientific solutions to problem solving.

Problem can be solved by running through a virtual machine like vm ware or boot camp. The cost will be comparable with mac being somewhat higher but not bad. As Andrew alluded to this falls into the larger debate of Macs vs. PC’s. Like anything there are pros and cons. Just make sure that whatever you decide to go with that the specs for the…[Read more]

My understanding is that there are still bugs in using AutoCAD on a Mac. They are getting better than it used to be from what I understand. Mac users usually want to defend Mac to the death, but from talking to people who use both, they dispute the notion that AutoCAD works the same on a Mac.
 I love my iphone and ipod. Many graphic programs run…[Read more]