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Alan Bucknam commented on the blog post Solving the Green Building Policy Puzzle 2 years, 1 month ago · View
I love the encouragement that governments are making to build things “greener”, but as a member of a suburban-area planning commission who has had developers come before him with plans for development, many shy away from the strict letter of the LEED law in favor of using LEED as a guideline…they don’t necessarily see the [...]
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Alan Bucknam commented on the blog post Sustainability Should Mean Rebuild-ability 2 years, 1 month ago · View
Great idea about printing/engraving/stamping a URL on items, Jeremy! Low-cost, versatile, and unobtrusive.
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Alan Bucknam commented on the blog post Challenge: Design, Poetry, and Muffins 2 years, 1 month ago · View
A muffin company that wanted to brand themselves as being the “old standby”, with lots of history in the muffin biz (real or imagined) you could do worse than a tin…something nice and 19th-century would do the trick. I’d probably approach it from the position of an in-market bakery, since re-use is what would make [...]
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Alan Bucknam wrote a new blog post: Sustainability Should Mean Rebuild-ability 2 years, 1 month ago · View
I recently had a travel mug top break. Not a disaster in the grand scheme of things, but it was a bummer. As you see here, it ended up in two pieces:
this shouldn’t look like this. The bottom part fits into the top part, and a little spring-activated valve opens the passage between your mocha and your [...]
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Alan Bucknam commented on the blog post Reducing Your Professional Carbon Footprint 2 years, 2 months ago · View
In addition to the advantages you listed in your article, many homeowners have the choice to use a lower-carbon energy source to power their home’s (and home office’s) electricity. For example, in Colorado, we can choose to get some or all of our electricity from the local utility’s wind farms (there is an additional charge [...]
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Alan Bucknam became a registered member 2 years, 3 months ago · View
