The Goodspeed Update

“The principle of organic economy was too essential to the functioning of the society not to affect ethics and aesthetics profoundly.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, from the novel The Dispossessed
Architectural sustainability, or the green building movement, is dominated by concern with buildings energy efficiency and use of sustainable materials. Left largely undiscussed is the question […]

Like many urban residents, I am frequently blasted with diesel fumes from buses and trucks as I navigate city streets. Over the past four years living in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Washington, D.C., I have cleaned black film off the windows of my apartments. This pollution no doubt caused mostly from diesel exhaust. (In fact, […]