the technology of sustainable design

an inquiry into how method can advance performance.

veggie oil powered ski shuttle

not feeling CME? then perhaps CGS is more your speed. the colorado green shuttle is a recycled veggie oil powered shuttle that can take you from DIA to vail in 2 1/2 hours.

like many articles about biofuels, the gas 2.0 profile of CGS refers to the use of vegetable based fuel as “green”. while the production of recycled vegetable oil is clearly greener than petroleum based fuels, whether or not biofuel emissions are an improvement (particularly with NOx emissions) is in dispute.

biofuels, particularly recycled vegetable oils, are incredible methods of voting with your wallet- signals to our economy that green technology is an important facet of our lives and is worth developing. but the sustainable qualities of biofuels are at best questionable, and might be better thought of as transition technologies than green solutions to a global problem.

Filed under: green

making le corbusier proud

here’s an article from the chicago sun-times through city farmer news about the first certified organic roof garden. there’s some impressive numbers in here, like 2500 square feet of garden and $150,000 for structural modifications, but the most impressive has to be the six tons of soil carried up to the roof by volunteers… incredible…

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Filed under: architecture, green, urban agriculture

24-7 sandwich shop contest

a friend of mine from sciarc created an online thought contest to generate new ideas about our relationship to food. 24-7 sandwich shop identifies the radical disconnect between a quickly evolving mechanism for producing food, and a static concept of what food is. find the more interactive facebook page here.

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Filed under: food, green

PROFILE

my name is alex webb and I am an architectural designer who is primarily interested in performative algorythmic design, environmental sustainability, sustainable transit and building information modeling (BIM).

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