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Happy Birthday, QWERTY typewriter
It was patented on this day in 1868, but it had to wait almost until its Bar Mitzvah before anyone wanted it.
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Architects and planners: Stop it with the terrible AI images already.
I'm not sure about this one, so I'm sending it to paid subscribers only.
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Asbestos, the Magic Mineral, Is Back!
From the archives, a look at Trump's last attempt to make asbestos great again.
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Nice Shades: A UK design guide for exterior shading should be used everywhere
You should keep the heat out in the first place instead of relying entirely on AC.
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Why we keep burning things: It drives the economy
There's a reason some politicians pour more fuel on the fire and even the most climate-aware ones can't give it up.
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Urine for a surprise: a splashless urinal
A new angle to an old problem, solved by nothing more than science and good design.
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Forget heat pumps, get a bike and go vegan!
Or maybe it's hard, comparing apples, oranges, and puppy dogs.
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Fixing our buildings is going to be a long, hard, and expensive job.
The scope of the problem and the number of buildings is daunting, but at least there are people figuring out how to do it.
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"The most sustainable building is one too beautiful to tear down."
Mariusz Hermansdorfer of Henning Larsen tells us to not be so carbon-brained.
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Another reason to stop using the term "embodied carbon"- it's misleading and confusing.
I say that carbon is not embodied, it's in the air, but It turns out that sometimes it is embodied in the material.
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Protected bike lanes attract over four times as many cyclists
So of course, politicians want to tear them out.
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Abundance or Sufficiency?
Here's a summary of a lecture where I am critical of so-called abundance agenda.
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