Posted: August 16th, 2010 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Transportation | Tags: animation, architecture, Gavin Newsom, high-speed rail, San Francisco, SF, transbay transit center, transit, video | View Comments
Animation of the Transbay Transit Center Program, the visionary transportation and housing project that will transform downtown San Francisco and create a “Grand Central of the West.”
For more information about the project, please visit www.transbaycenter.org
San Francisco Transbay Transit Center Animation
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Business, Sustainability | Tags: architecture, Business, development, global warming, linkedin, Sustainability | View Comments
Martin Melaver, author of the new book, Living Above the Store, is something of a rarity for an author of a sustainable business text: someone who actually has decades of experience doing the work to create a socially-responsible business. Which is very lucky for us, because while many books claim to be able to teach us how to do it, very few can do so with the wisdom of experience on their side. The result is an honest and forthright look at what it really takes for shape and maintain values-based business in a very traditional industry.
Melaver is CEO of Melaver, Inc.-a third-generation, family-owned company based in Savannah, Georgia. Through a series of personal anecdotes, Melaver explains, in detail, how a small corner grocery store evolved into a major regional chain, eventually transforming itself into a real estate company focused on sustainable development and management. The fact that this happened was not by accident: all along its seventy-year history, the company chose to pursue a values-based path, even when it meant making difficult choices.
Posted: June 5th, 2007 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Capitalism, Sustainability | Tags: architecture, Capitalism, consumption, Design, overconsumption, Sustainability, wealh | View Comments
While some try to find ways to reduce their impact by changing lightbulbs, choosing better cars or using cloth bags, there are others of us on this planet who appear to be on a mission to single-handedly use up all the resources we’re trying to save via ridiculous consumption.
I had previously mused to some collegues about the potential impact of a single resident of my community, who owns this gigantic house, complete with Llamas and Emus. I had asked if it makes any sense for 100 people to conserve resources when one individual can so easily use up those resources himself. I certainly was not prepared for this news story, about the righest man in India, who is building himself a 60-story single-family house!
