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Yup, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Environmentalism isn’t about protecting the earth, it’s about preserving the human race. We can wipe ourselves off the face of the earth and it won’t matter one bit. In a few thousand years, you’ll hardly be able to tell we existed. The earth will heal itself. We just won’t be around to see it… Or…[Read more]

I read recently in an economics book (yeah, you do odd things with your spare time when you have a lot of it) that it is considered common knowledge that when you reduce compensation people are less motivated to work.  That is why layoffs are preferable to reduced hours or salary.  OTOH, I was listening to NPR recently and they were talking a…[Read more]

Thanks Steve and Kerri – just started messing with it but this might be my favorite app EVER – exactly what I need a smartphone to do too!

Oh, there is certainly “dough in the dirt” thanks to California’s medical marijuana law!
 
I knew a daylily hybridizer who seemed to make a good living for himself growing and selling his hybrids.  Of course, he had a doctorate and had taught.

Nick, oddly enough I was recently talking with someone about my annoyance with designers over-intellectualizing of projects (mostly just to look genius-er than thou) and one of the points I made was that the highline is not that at all. I suppose if you gave Corner 5 uniteruppted minutes that my point could easily be proved null, but I really thi…[Read more]

Personally, probably alot more than Corner, lol.
 
My point is that Corner and Waldheim are academians that need to bring their overly contrived theories to the built environment. Someone said once that if you can’t explain your ideas so that your grandma understands, then you probably don’t undertsand what you’re saying either.
 
I’m tired of t…[Read more]

Certainly there would be less labor. Excavation, base prep, materials and delivery. You could set the stones in an hour or two with a skid. Depends on the availability of the material in that area. Or you could spend a day plus gluing and screwing.

I’m not sure a handful of projects qualifies as ‘building like a beaver,’ but whatever floats your fresh kills.

At first I scoffed at your suggestion that they are close in price but they really are… an 8′ 4×6 (treated) is about $20. It looks like there were about 14 used to build those landings. That’s about $280. A ton of 6″ sandstone block is $120. You could buy 2 tons of sandstone, which would be more than enough, for the same price. 
The sandstone…[Read more]

Yeah, I thought you were kidding when you said “extruded shale”. Then I poked around on the internets and that stuff popped up. My mom actually has some in the garage that she uses for drainage in her flower pots. It’s nice and round but is too light for sling-shot ammo. I tried using it to chase squirrels off the bird feeder but it just goes all…[Read more]

I agree that the article paints LAs as arranging shrubs until 1980….that makes no sense.
 
And as for your direct question….I guess I’m just a sucker for the highline and fresh kills.

What about CMU? Check out how it was used in this project by Terra Ferma: http://www.land8.net/project_detail.php?projectid=71

Hi Jonathon. 
RE: “Evan a different way of finishing them”
Two ideas:. 
1.  You may look into 4 x 6’s. (they are widely available here, hopefully there too)  I like look of the thinner 3 1/2″ dimension on the tread, and they are comparable in performance at this scale. 
2. For a little more money:   Add a 2″ x whatever to the top and canitlever…[Read more]

No snarkiness there.
That seems pretty clear as you described. My opinion is that this is everything wrong in a Practice Act. It should not be about making a profession out of making it illegal for others to do things that are reasonable without a license. Killing an entire industry to try to favor certain people is just plain wrong even if we are…[Read more]

We definitley have surpassed the  number of  people the earth can support for many species, that have been sacrificed to human population growth – more species every day..The river dolphin of china, the kakapo flightless parrot, tasmanian devils with their cancer..there was a hideous article in the New Yorker on the southern european capture of th…[Read more]

Here is the link to the PDF for any who wants to read the whole thing: Nevada Practice and Title Act
 
And below I’ve added the relevant portions:
Landscape architect: Any person who engages in the practice oflandscape architecture.
Practice of landscape architecture: To provide or hold professionalservices out to the public, including, without…[Read more]

Like this?
http://www.hydroponics.net/i/260002

extruded shale, eh? 😉

Isn’t he a designer not a builder? 😉

Great interview! Excellent and inspiring responses… though personally, I didn’t go through a five year LA program and incur mounds of student debt to do a job typically reserved for illegal immigrants. I’m sure it’s wonderful and fulfilling work but for those of us lacking a trust-fund and carrying debt, it doesn’t begin to cut it…
Then again,…[Read more]