GUEST POST BY DELLA HANSMANN. Read more of her thoughts on green building and design at Dwelling Places. Does anyone else in their late twenties (or with kids that age) remember the old Sesame Street song about “Clean, clear water”? I still find myself singing “Don’t… waste… water. Water water […]
THOSE WHO EXPECT TO REAP THE BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM MUST UNDERGO THE FATIGUE OF SUPPORTING IT. Thomas Paine THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING. Edmund Burke I am going to go off my usual environmental topic for this post. Things […]
According to a report, “Tackling High Tech Trash,” by Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization, Americans now own 3 billion electronic products with a turnover rate of about 400 million units annually. We now have one computer for every six people on the planet. This […]
The absolutely most blood-curdling screams I have ever heard in my life occurred when my 8-year-old daughter and the neighbor kids annoyed some mud wasps. I was outside the house and moving toward the cries before I even knew I was out of my chair. So, though I’ve never been […]
It’s time we took Valentine’s Day back from Hallmark, FTD and Fannie May. Show your valentine you love them by giving them a greener earth to live on. Even better, why don’t we all ask Mother Earth to be our valentine this year? ARE YOU GOING TO SAY IT […]
There was always a globe in my grade school classrooms. I loved to spin it around and imagine traveling to exotic places. But most of all I loved finding my own spot and thinking about my bit of the earth as part of the whole globe. Interactive maps have taken […]
Our architect, Della Hansmann, has recently started to collect her thoughts and experience into a comprehensive blog Dwelling Places: Let’s Design the World as if People Mattered which focuses on residential, small and green design. If you are interested in any of these topics, you’ll find a lot to like […]
Guest post by Doug Hansmann Denise and I are planning to break ground for our new house 16 moons from now. OK, I could have said we’ll start building on May 20, 2012. It marks the end of the same time period. There is a seemingly endless list of details […]
Digging in the Driftless 