tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334849659163883527.post5135557669266162747..comments2024-03-28T00:26:54.906-07:00Comments on SOLAR CITIES: Coming to Egypt? Why not take the Solar CITIES Tour!?T.H. Culhanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02974539190597507374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334849659163883527.post-27615373215267125422011-04-06T00:59:35.284-07:002011-04-06T00:59:35.284-07:00Thanks for this resource!
solar energyThanks for this resource!<br /><a href="http://www.zenhomeenergy.com.au/" rel="nofollow">solar energy</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16287171347565889814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334849659163883527.post-65728556704017605382008-05-04T13:31:00.000-07:002008-05-04T13:31:00.000-07:00I heard a story about Solar Cities on National Pub...I heard a story about Solar Cities on National Public Radio today (Sunday May 4, 2008). When I did a little research I discovered that T.H. Culhane studies or studied at UCLA and has worked with Lois Arkin of LA Eco-Village. It is a small world: I worked with her and a couple of dozen other urban ecovillage activists to create the first Urban Ecovillage conference ever, at least in Central & North America. We paired it with the massive US Green Building Council's annual conference in Chicago, November 2007. We may try it again if I and others get up to it... feel free to contact me if any reader is interested. wjmars AT verizon DOT com<BR/><BR/>I am a 60-year old architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The year I graduated from architecture school at Cornell (1970) I hung around the non-university part of Ithaca. I wanted some personal time before moving on into the world of work. In the public library of that small town I found two books I never saw during my architecture study: Architecture Without Architects (1964) by Bernard Rudofsky, and Architecture for the Poor (I think) by Hassan Fathy. Fathy apparently was an Egyptian who single-handedly saved local crafts & building techniques from modernity-subsumed oblivion.<BR/><BR/>So - I had to wonder if Hanna Fathy knows of this man's work? I'm sure Fathy is not an unusual name, but I wonder if there is a family continuation of Hassan Fathy's approach - especially now in light of what humanity faces. I see this type of local, climate- and resource-specific act of building to be core to the sense of what makes a sustainable city. Knowing how much building of new cities we must engage in worldwide to accommodate the hundreds of millions to be displaced by rising oceans, supply chain disruptions, peak oil, et al means that such skills and knowledge are essential to learn and to spread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334849659163883527.post-72129750709414863702008-03-12T12:32:00.000-07:002008-03-12T12:32:00.000-07:00Hey T.H.!My colleague in the graduate program--Mar...Hey T.H.!<BR/><BR/>My colleague in the graduate program--Marie-Laure Couet--wants to do a contingent valuation survey for her masters thesis looking at the economic potential of community gardens to revitalize urban neighbourhoods in Providence, Rhode Island. She was wondering what books you used in order to design your survey in Cairo. She can use whatever suggestions you have--books, articles, essays and personal experience on how to design a successful survey. Also, she wanted to know whether or not you did a contingent valuation survey, and if it meets NOAA standards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com