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The Long Now Foundation, was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years and explores whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. They are developing a “10,000 year clock”: a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical [...] This picture is of the Lorenz Ranch from “PORTRAITS OF PRESERVATION – Protected Lands & Ranches of Colorado's Front Range" captured by Mike Strunk. DHM Design worked with the Mountain Area Land Trust to identify the development value of the land which would be sacrificed once the conservation easement was in place.
The City of Denver is conducting a trial program that uses goats to control invasive weeds in urban parks. Lani Malmberg, a weed scientist with a Master’s degree from Colorado State University was awarded the $50,000 contract to control weeds for Denver City Parks with her herd of Cashmere Goats. Goats prefer eating [...] This spring I finally had the opportunity to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center outside of Austin, Texas. Established in the mid 1980’s the Wildflower Center was a progressive idea that since then has extended its influence into land development and design with the launching of the Sustainable Sites Initiative in collaboration with the [...] Cork: Versatile and Renewable I don’t think we appreciate cork enough. It is an amazing material: light, impermeable to gasses and liquids, elastic, compressible, fireproof, and resistant to abrasion. It is already used to make a wide variety of products including insulation, furniture, floors, walls, and shoes, but with a little imagination, it could [...] |
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