Monday, April 29, 2019

2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA - Setting the standard in design and sustainability

The 2019 COTE® Top Ten program highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE® Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons.

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2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA

Monday, April 22, 2019

Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian

‘Die-in’ staged at Natural History Museum as protesters gather at legal site in Marble Arch

More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history.

The Metropolitan police said that as of 10am on Monday, 1,065 arrests had been made and 53 people charged in relation to the protests.

Activists at Natural History Museum
Extinction Rebellion activists at the Natural History Museum. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Read more at: Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian

Saturday, April 20, 2019

‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’ - The New York Times

‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’

How a group of five activists called the Valve Turners decided to fight global warming by doing whatever it takes.



On Oct. 11, 2016, Michael Foster and two companions rose before dawn, left their budget hotel in Grand Forks, N.D., and drove a white rental sedan toward the Canadian border, diligently minding the speed limit. The day was cold and overcast, and Foster, his diminutive frame wrapped in a down jacket, had prepared for a morning outdoors. As the driver, Sam Jessup, followed a succession of laser-straight farm roads through the sugar-beet fields, and a documentary filmmaker, Deia Schlosberg, recorded events from the back seat, Foster sat hunched in the passenger seat, mentally rehearsing his plan.

Continue reading at: ‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’ - The New York Times