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The problem with being a ‘realist’ is that reality is completely subjective, no?

Forces in the field now are striving and hell bent on making this field a “specialized niche” with sub-niches and nooks and crannies and their own little private pedestals. Thankfully they have not had success. Yet. Because I want to know if my garden is healing based, sustainable, energy focused, sensory, or if it is GLBT sensitive, HGTV…[Read more]

second furlough? sorry – what’s that?

Thanks Robert. I’ll take a look.

dear Roland,
the question is not about doing a better job than others. What we all need is doing a good job. It may start with the compost and bike lanes and does not end with sustainable sites. We do have to change the way of living on many levels. If you have a look in European books from 1920 or so and later, city planning, housing, ecology,…[Read more]

96 dpi to 150 dpi is adequate for printing. You will want to get a file to BELOW 2 Mb if at all possible. Many firms still have a 2mb upload limit on portfolios when applying. You can save several versions.

If you assemble your portfolio in PowerPoint, it makes the whole downsampling thing easy since that program is optimized to view on a screen.…[Read more]

Here in the Mid-Atlantic, thanks to the gubmint and the Base Realignment, things aren’t hit as bad as many other regions, but business is still terrible. I’m not too sure with the questions as it regards to LA’s in particular (most of my contacts and colleagues are in commercial architecture and engineering), but since we are all part of the AEC…[Read more]

300dpi is huge. screen dpi is 72 and you can get good print quality at not much higher.

Russell,

Have you ever thought of submitting an op-ed to LA mag or another relevent publication? Seriously.

3. Architects (and some engineers) in some states have the power to stamp planting plans and other landscape architecture projects, thereby lessening the demand for more specialized LA services.

Wait a second..not to derail the discussion, but weren’t you arguing against this point a month or two ago? The way I’m reading this says to me that the…[Read more]

Guess my reply was too boring. Let me rephrase:
I think a lot of Tea Party participators in the US don’t really understand composting. If you explain a compost pile or worm bin to Tea Partiers, they often just say “EEEEEEEWWW!”, even if it would probably keep their garbage from smelling and attracting fruit flies and lowering their land value. Tea…[Read more]

Rob, the thing is, the Tea baggers don’t have ANYTHING to do with the ‘don’t fence me in’ ethos..It IS a nice song, isn’t it….They are racists…The ‘don’t fence me in’ is much more personified by the ACLU. We have the bill of rights.We don’t want to be wiretapped, tortured, have our land grabbed for big business, or have insurance agents run…[Read more]

Trace, I wasn’t defending them or extolling them: just pointing out a factor in whether the US will do what it takes to require sustainable practices. The “don’t fence me in” ethos runs deep in the US history and psyche. If we want Change, we need to understand where people are

Rob, I still think you are kidding..The “Tea bag Party” is incoherent – accepting medicare, as most older white people do, but objecting to ‘big government’. It’s a joke..There is a far more insidious, well-subsidized busness lobbying group that the GOP represents, that sends these people their buttons and t–shirts….Tea bagging is not worth two…[Read more]

Not a joke, really. Apparently adherents of the “Tea Party” philosophy (?!) oppose taxation and government control. I am not clear what the difference is from Libertarians, but my point is that IF they represent more than the privileged few (as recent polls suggest they are) then how can the US Government accomplish imposing taxes, restrictions,…[Read more]

Claudia, thank you for listening..My comment on development patters was more of a comment on actual patterns than on perceptions of speed.. Good public transit systems benefit from dense city centers that are walkable. These town patterns on the european landscape make it easy to impose a public transit system.. We have a development pattern that…[Read more]

Thanks, Trace One, for the heads up on the trash incinerator article – just read it. It’s interesting that the U.S. state and municipal governments are shying away from it because of public perception and difficulty finding locations for it. It’s interesting to note that new environmental laws in Europe forced the switch to new, cleaner…[Read more]

I don’t think it’s just extremist conservatives working against that sort of policy in the US. I think a lot of people in the US don’t really understand composting. If you explain a compost pile or worm bin to them, they often just say “EEEEEEEWWW!”, even if it would probably keep their garbage from smelling and attracting fruit flies. They just…[Read more]