Versatile passive house to balance live/work, urban/country by Kirsten Dirksen on March 21, 2011 As an architect passionate about passive solar and urban live/work design, Alan Cohen got tired of waiting for a client …
A downtown live/work dream house (with roof deck for naps) by Kirsten Dirksen on October 13, 2010 Alan Cohen’s commute used to take 20 to 25 minutes every morning. Now it takes 30 seconds, or however long …
Life on the small screen: fly less, video chat more by Kirsten Dirksen on February 23, 2010 For more than a century, it’s been the stuff of fantasies: in 1891, Alexander Graham Bell dreamed about “seeing by …
A year without flying: a Skype family album by Kirsten Dirksen on February 1, 2010 “Should it not be possible to see by telegraph…?“- Alexander Graham Bell, April 11, 1891. In 1930, New Yorkers- using …
@Googleplex: carbon footprint of search and how to best coal by Kirsten Dirksen on November 18, 2009 They’re the biggest thing on the Internet, with annual profits of around 13 billion dollars, and some of that money …
1 man’s musings on 1 planet living: meat for air travel by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2009 Sustainability: it’s perhaps the most over-used, yet under-analyzed, word in the modern environmental movement. One way to think of it …
Gulfstream greens: Gore the Man vs. Gore the Messenger by Kirsten Dirksen on September 21, 2009 “Al Gore, he says he’s green, but he rented my Gulf Stream to fly alone to Los Angeles”. It took …
Cameron Diaz's childfree status & non-breeders as eco-heros by Kirsten Dirksen on June 24, 2009 It’s significant that one of the world’s “sexiest” women has gone public that she may never have children. When Cameron …
Flying: who's prepared for greener skies? by Kirsten Dirksen on May 30, 2009 Air travel is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and this hasn’t gone unnoticed: the Institute for Public …
“A 3 hr drive from Calgary to Edmonton, it’s nothing” by Kirsten Dirksen on May 30, 2009 The US appearing at the bottom of the WWF’s Climate Scorecard (ranking climate change performance for G8 countries) isn’t news, …
