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NC State University, College of Design, The Natural Learning Initiative ( Read more... )

The Landscape Architecture Foundation, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the University of California, Davis, Landscape Architecture Department, invite you to participate in the sixth symposium in a series of seven symposia on the drivers of global landscape change. The upcoming Landscape Futures Initiative symposium on ( Read more... )

Please note that the Call for Proposals for EDRA37 has been extended until October 15th!

To view the call go to http://www.edra.org/conference/pdfs/CFP_Edra37atl.pdf

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Let's make New Orleans The Big, Sustainable Easy
-By Morgon Mae Schultz, Utne.com
September 29, 2005 Issue

President Bush reportedly said that New Orleans should become a "shining example for the whole world." Timothy Lange, writing for Grist, agrees. But Lange, unlike Bush, has a green renaissance in mind. Here are some of the steps he's laid out ( Read more... )

I'm a member of architecture which has a majority of student members. It is really interesting to view some of their posts, now that I've been in college studying architecture for over a decade and have some teaching experience as well ( Read more... )

I've been trying to brush up on some of my favorite authors and see what they are up to right now...

James Howard Kunstler is doing a nice blog.

Cherie Preist has a new book out - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has a new advanced reader copy out of her young adult sequel to The Conch Bearer.

EDRA, The Environmental Design Research Association (http://www.edra.org) invites you to join such distinguished speakers as former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Mindspring and Greenstreet Properties founder Charles Brewer and others at our upcoming annual conference, EDRA37, May 3 - 7, 2006 in ( Read more... )

Specifics: EDRA37 Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) http://www.edra.org
Sheraton Midtown Atlanta at Colony Square
May 3 - 7, 2006

Mission: Since 1969, EDRA conferences have provided a forum for unique and in-depth discussions on all matters relating to ( Read more... )