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Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.

If you are an engineer: watch this. This is where architecture is going and it excites me.

In light of the Winter Olympics being in the most livable city in North America, I was looking at data about the affordability of major cities in the world. This study was done by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. One of the interesting correlations I pull from this material is that the [...]

The Winter Olympics are coming, but there isn’t any snow! And it looks like one man has found a new winter hobby.

Smart Electricity Meter
Greensource Article on Smart Grid Technology
In the midst of all of the discussion about restarting the economy and what the next steps are, there is a major lack of publicity on specific technologies that are revolutionizing our systems. For example: in Bakersfield, a smart grid for meter reading was invested in. [...]

Denny’s takes the cake. Screaming chickens: doesn’t get any more random than that!

night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo.
Night Lights by YesYesNo.

I am thankful that Jon Stewart has taken hard stances on real issues. While my moral values may not be the same, Jon has been a strong force in apoliticizing our system. After watching that clip, I then watched O’Reilly’s response which (true statement) made me throw up a little in my mouth.

Pacific Environment’s Yellow Treehouse in New Zealand captures my boyhood dream of an amazing treehouse. This treehouse is amazing on so many levels, first, the Yellow Treehouse has been booked since it opened. Second, it captures what so many people aspired for themselves as a kid, from the little entrepreneurs to even the [...]