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How to Bring a $30 Million Stimulus to Your City
…and do something good for the environment in the process.
Brooke FUNKhouser
This is posted by my coworker and co-blogger, Brooke Funkhouser. Brooke is a graduate architect with a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Brooke and I soaked in 3 action-packed days at Greenbuild Phoenix earlier this month, and are finally pausing to share our experiences with you.
Preservation of Another Kind
The leaves are falling, and it’s the time of year when you start wishing you could bottle everything about the waning days of warmer weather – the sunshine, the warm air, the juicy sweet fruit…well I don’t know how to save the sunshine but the fruit I have in the bag, or rather in the jar. I’m talking, of course, about canning.
I remember when I was little my mom and grandma canned all kinds of things – pears, grape juice, string beans, beets. Over the years as we got busier they stopped. A few years ago a friend of mine decided she wanted to try making peach jam, but she had never done it before. She enlisted my help, so I dug deep in my memory and we spent a Saturday making jam. We went to the market and bought the peaches, chopped the fruit, cooked the fruit, sugar and pectin, poured it into jars and processed the jars in a canner. At the end we had dozens of little jars full of jewel-toned nectar – peach jam.
Avoid Flush Plume
But by all means go to GreenBuild! Today Brooke Funkhouser and I completed our second day of GB 2009 in sunny & sustainable Phoenix, Arizona. We learned about everything from low-energy buildings to waterless urinals that prevent flush plume (if you’re intrigued, look for our video blog about waterless urinals coming soon).
Get Ready, Greenbuild. We’re Coming with Cameras.
Next week, my coworker – and for a short time, co-blogger – Brooke Funkhouser and I are traveling to Pheonix, AZ to attend Greenbuild 2009 (GB09). Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of building professionals from all over the world come together at Greenbuild for three days of educational sessions, renowned speakers (this year’s keynote speaker is Al Gore), green building tours, special seminars and networking events.
Attention Silver Screen Architects: The Profession Isn’t That Pretty
So many people I meet, when I tell them I work for an architecture firm, respond with “I always wanted to do that!” I always think to myself, “You have no idea what it really means to be an architect.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love my job – just not for the same reasons I thought I would when I chose the profession. My job is challenging and rewarding, and allows me to be both creative and logical at the same time.
The general public seems to think that the job is so much more glamorous than it really is – and for this I blame the movies.
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