GAB Report library
2012
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Wind Turbines Ride the Wave to Renewable Energy Future
Editor’s Foreword: Earlier this year, the first full-scale prototype of a revolutionary floating support structure for offshore wind turbines made its debut off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal. It was inaugurated and celebrated by Portuguese government officials, clean-tech investors, and its engineers and builders. Each floating support structure, known as the WindFloat*, is a three-column…
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Greenbuild 2012 Call for Volunteers
Greenbuild has always been one of my favorite conferences dedicated to green building. Greenbuild 2012 will be held in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center this year from November 14-16. The USGBC will offer free conference attendance to volunteers who complete 8-hours of volunteer time during the conference. Volunteers must be a full-time student…
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Ecobuild, What Happened to Green Innovation?
I only attended the last two days of Ecobuild in London this year. On the first day there, I was fully absorbed in finding the booths that shouted “this is the Landscape Architecture section,” never really bothering to slow down and take a look around. I found very few booths representing the field of landscape…
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Green California Summit 2012
It’s not too late to register online! The Green California Summit and Exposition will take place at the Sacramento Convention Center in California from April 26th to the 27th. The Keynote, the Expo, and the Green Leadership Awards Reception are free to all registrants. Speakers include Kevin Johnson (Go Bears!), the Mayor of the City…
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Fallingwater Goes Digital
It’s pretty neat to see a friend featured in the New York Times. This February, NYT reporter Steven Kurutz interviewed Tim Sakamoto, my long-time friend and fellow alum from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (CED). The interview focused on his latest product, the Frank Lloyd Wright–Fallingwater mobile app. The What: Let’s call it…