Saturday, January 24, 2009

Majora Carter on TED.com

If you haven't seen it already, take a look at Majora Carter's speech on www.ted.com. Her informative, passionate speech on Greening the Ghetto is up at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html. While you're at it, take a look at Malcolm Gladwell's speech on TED.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Green World-Mundo Verde Symposium

This past Friday I moderated a panel at Symposium on the greening of architecture, put together by the US GBC, HACIA, Instituto Cervantes and Sao Paulo-Illinois Partners. The agenda is at www.haciaworks.org. Tried to look at the growing green collar jobs movement and how it affects the world of Latino architects, developers and other construction people in Chicago. Thanks to Ald. Manny Flores for sharing his vision for a sustainable city as well as to Paige Finnegan of LEED Council, Aurelio Zarzosa-Ramirez and Lourdex Gonzalez of Primera Construction for all sharing interesting perspectives.