Building Sustainability via Transition US By Brian Skeele, on June 6th, 2011 Transition US is picking up momentum. Here’s a short video to give you an intro. The second video is a panel sharing how Cascadia Northwest is moving forward. Reno Transition contributes at. 9.45 min- 16.15 min. Lessons Learned-Not an Umbrella organization, but a crazy quilt…building networks. Envisioning Reno-each …
Killer | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on March 12th, 2011 I happen to talk to one of my partners about my latest blog on the Killer Modeling Tool, and he directed me to “Write this down. EVONY”. So I did, and later last night I went to the web site, remembering the advice he’d given me, “Don’t let the way they built …
sustainable economy | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on March 16th, 2011 Sustainable Urban Village is an odd phrase. Sustainable Urban Village is a mash up of opposites. “Village” is pastoral, dreamy, idealistic, old fashioned, small and intimate. “Urban” conjures up pretty much the opposite-gritty, concrete and asphalt, contemporary, hip, huge and cold. Add “sustainable” to the mix, and it becomes ….an odd phrase. Where …
Tax Base | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
WANTED: Killer Modeling Tool to Sell Sustainable Urban Villages! Part 2 By Brian Skeele, on March 10th, 2011 Continuing the walk thru of my take on the Killer Modeling Tool… As the amount of input from the Charrette (design) process builds, the needs and desires of the future residents, landowners, finance people, city planners, designers, the school district, neighbors, etc, are collected. People …
Ideas | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on March 21st, 2011 is your neighborhood playing with a full deck of cards? To help folks become conversant in all the parts that go into a sustainable neighborhood, while having fun at the same time, how bout a deck of playing cards??! Like baseball cards, but with a different component on each card; An illustration on …
Tool | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
World Peace this Week, Sustainable Neighborhoods Next Week! By Brian Skeele, on May 7th, 2011 I just watched John Hunter’s TED presentation….So Dang Good! He has his 4th graders solving World Peace in one week! I wrote him to see if the game, played on a 3 dimensional 4’x4′ board game, could be adapted to sustainable neighorhoods. Social, Economic and …
Quality of Life | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on July 14th, 2011 The intent is to give people the tools to redevelop their neighborhood sustainably. Here’s one way I see it playing out. (my take on the Chattanooga 2000 process). 1) All the citizens are invited to a “Make our City a Better Place to Live” event ( “A more sustainable town”, etc). 2) The …
Safeway goes Mixed Use! | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on May 30th, 2011 Museum Place Lofts & Townhouses were finished in 2003 in Portland’s Cultural District. The development has 140 apartments atop and behind a Safeway grocery store. Safeway has thrown away its clothes!!! Naked Thursdays!! Come as you are! Yes, I’m babbling…I just learned Safeway in Washington DC has two mixed use redevelopments cooking. Starting with …