Education

Green Architect Sim Van der Ryn Has Died

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Sim Van der Ryn, a Dutch-born architect sometimes called  “the father of green architecture,” died. He was 89. Mr. Van der Ryn taught architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1961 to 1995, a span interrupted by a four-year stint in the 1970s as Gov. Jerry Brown’s state architect. Early on Sim was swept … Read more

The Xingcheng Exhibition Garden

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The Xingcheng Exhibition Garden was designed for the 2024 Chengdu International Horticultural Expo in China. Shaped by Chengdu’s traditional aesthetics, the garden pavilion offers tranquillity amid nature. The pavilion emphasizes sustainable design through its use of low-carbon materials that align with the Expo’s green ethos. Principal architect Youcai Pan says, “We hoped to foster a … Read more

Touring The Crooked Forest Institute’s Land

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Yesterday I toured the Crooked Forest Institute‘s land that they recently acquired in the Mimbres Valley in Southern New Mexico via a $200,000 grant . A group of more than a dozen of us who already had some association with the Institute were invited to inspect the 50+ acre property and make suggestions about ways … Read more

Interview with Me by Morgan Caraway

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I was interviewed by Morgan Caraway of sustainablelifeschool.com awhile ago, and he has just released this video on www.youtube.com Our conversation is fairly lengthy and it reveals as much about Morgan as it does me. What he says about this on youtube is: This is an extended interview with Kelly Hart of: hartworks.com earthbagbuilding.com naturalbuildingblog.com … Read more

Companies Cooperate to Make Carbon Capture Building Materials

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Swiss based Neustark is working with Aggregate Industries on its first UK site to capture CO2 from biomass sites, liquefy it, and then inject it into existing mineral waste streams such as demolished materials to be recycled and used in construction. This stores the CO2 in the aggregate, permanently removing it from the atmosphere and … Read more