The Green and Blue Architect

05/01/2025

Tariff raises costs of Green Transition

The green transition in the US has made great progress in recent years, but the wheels are falling off. This is largely due to economic pressures, lack of fi...

12/16/2021

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/16/mapping-world-oil-gas-pipelines-interactive

Every day the world consumes some 100 million barrels of oil and 60 million equivalent barrels of natural gas.

12/12/2021

https://mcusercontent.com/6dd23531465f1c13f80eb7d84/files/5106cf2b-7856-be2d-1f4d-1501fab3bfd8/GN_7.46_TrashToTreasure.pdf

11/06/2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/06/1052472759/to-fight-climate-change-ithaca-votes-to-decarbonize-its-buildings-by-2030

Decarbonizing involves installing things from solar panels to switching out gas stoves for electric stoves. The effort to decarbonize buildings will cut the city's carbon dioxide output by 40%.

10/29/2019

I am sending my words of compassion for all the people affected by the fires.
For the others I am saying: Do you have a plan, if the worse case scenario would hit home?
Why talk about a Family Disaster Plan?
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services, such as water, gas, electricity, or telephones were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away.
Families can and do cope with disaster by preparing in advance and working together as a team. Knowing what to do is your best protection and your responsibility.

10/29/2019

Groundwater is a vital resource: Together, let's protect it!
http://www.midcountygroundwater.org/

08/02/2019

Solution to water shortage:
1- Would you drink it?
2- Would you do laundry with it?
3- Would you water your edible plants with it?

In the midst of California’s historic drought, cities and towns are looking for any source of water they can find. That includes a water recycling process some call “toilet to tap.” Ben Tracy reports.

07/03/2019

Farmers Union Enterprises has just issued an in-depth report titled "GASOLINEGATE."

01/21/2019

WORLD EXTREME SNOW SCULPTURES:

The more than 100 attractions are made of 8 million cubic feet of ice.

09/20/2018

OCEAN CLEAN UP:

Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

09/14/2018

NET ZERO POWER BUILDINGS: https://www.globalclimateactionsummit.org/net-zero-buildings/. PS- I DESIGN THESE

Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment Launched at the Global Climate Action Summit Sep 13, 2018 | Feature, Summit News LEADERS COMMIT TO SAVE 209 MILLION TONNES OF CARBON EMISSIONS EQUIVALENT (CO2e) BY 2050 AT LAUNCH OF WORLD GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL’S NET ZERO CARBON BUILDINGS COMMITMENT San Francis...

06/24/2018

"THE PROBLEM IS NOT A LACK OF WATER. IT IS A LACK OF VISION". (THAT IS A QUOTE IN THIS ARTICLE). IF CIVILIZATION WOULD DO NET ZERO CATCHMENT, RECLAMATION, & CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS , WATER COULD BE RECLAIMED & USED & FILTERED REPEATEDLY TO BE USED OVER & OVER AGAIN, NEVER GOING DOWN THE DRAIN. I DESIGN THOSE TYPE OF SYSTEMS. THE SOONER IT BECOMES THE NEW NORMAL THE LESS PEOPLE SUFFER. :

By 2030 the nation will have access to half the water it needs. The city of Shimla has already run out