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The state of the profession is where it always is – roughly equal to that of development.

A furlough is basically mandatory, unpaid time off. You’re not fired, you’re not laid off, but you’ve been told not to come in to work even if you want to and you will not be paid for the working hours missed. However there are some fairly complex rules in employment law as far as when and how they can be implemented, and many times it’s not done…[Read more]

Hi Bev,

Sounds like a fun trip! Definitely check out the Alhambra in Grenada. A must see!

Hi Claudia, (lovely name!)

Thx for your thoughts. I do that too – weigh the pros/cons of life here/there….

Yesterday, in the class I teach, we talked about the ‘cradle to cradle’ concept and then diagrammed waste processes – all of which were linear and dead ending – not cyclical. Now that you mention the manifest destiny concept it makes…[Read more]

Hi Claudia,
on one hand I expect intelligent technical solutions saving energy and ressources, minimizing waste etc. There are so many good technics available already. At least in Germany they get accepted quickly. On the other hand, as you say, the behavior of ourselves must change, solutions for housing and traffic are key issues.But we are only…[Read more]

Well, simply put: I visited Germany in 1988, and even then, I observed people riding their bikes to the end of their street with the basket full of washed items to be sorted and recycled.

Recycling is just one small part of being sustainable, of course, but what I am suggesting is that the cultural attitude in western Europe is very different…[Read more]

Sorry, I haven’t read the whole thread here, but read enough to get the gist of the conversation…

There are several problems with the distinction between a landscape designer and a landscape architect.

1) There are many highly qualified people out there who are not licensed or even trained as landscape architects. I had a background in art and…[Read more]

Hi Robert, Thank you for the comment. I agree. My feeling is that the next phase of sustainability in the U.S. will move beyond sustainable sites into the realm of ‘behavior-based sustainability’. In other words, the sustainable design of places and objects is critical, but obviously without a fundamental change of values and behavior, even the…[Read more]

Hi Roland, I wanted to get back to you regarding the worm issue which is not typically interesting to most people – yet fascinating to us landscape architects for some reason. I agree that many people struggle to get beyond the basic ‘less than pretty’ realities of natural processes. It certainly is a sticking point in education – especially when…[Read more]

No, not at all. That’s what they want you to think. Some things are irrefutable. The glass is not half empty, its not half full, but it DOES have stuff in it.

Also print it as a postscript file and then use distiller to experiment on pdf sizes and quality.

yes

Yes, but on 80% pay plus 2 furlough days a month…so about 70% pay/hours. The good news is that I am retiring next month, so someone else can take my job.

My full prtfolio last spring was approx 60 pages in a 9MB pdf which printed relatively well and contained two animations. 12 pages over 10 megs is kind of ridiculous.

You only need 150 dpi for printing and as low as 72dpi for stuff that is only intended to view on screen. Your images should be raster and resized (or close to the final size…[Read more]