Envisioning the Sustainable Campus

The Zero+ Campus Design Project brings together the University of Minnesota’s Department of Landscape Architecture, the School of Architecture, the Institute on the Environment, the Capital Planning and Project Management staff, and faculty and students from affiliated programs to develop campus solutions that can eliminate or have a net-positive effect on emissions, pollutants, and waste streams to reduce long-term costs and align campus operations with the content of related teaching and research. The project includes the development zero+ curriculum, an online resource, design tools, and demonstration projects to foster zero-emission campus design, planning and performance. Learn more...

 

Teaching for Transformation

Virajita Singh's piece on "Teaching for Transformation" was posted on University of Minnesota's Techniques in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Blog.

 

Turning Suburban Blights into Community Hubs

Natalie Ross (MLA '11) was shortlisted for her project "Combat Concrete" in the Strip Appeal ideas design competition. An online vote is taking place now through January 16th to decide the Public Choice winner. Read more...

 

Patrick Smith and Rolf Jacobson presented at the 2012 Duluth Energy Design Conference & Expo

Patrick Smith and Rolf Jacobson, both Research Fellows at the CSBR, will be presenting at the 2012 Duluth Energy Design Conference & Expo.

U of M places fifth overall in 2009 Solar Decathlon

Minnesota tops all other first-time entries in international solar home competition, places first in engineering and lighting design categories. Full story

 

Transforming the built environment

The Center for Sustainable Building Research takes the hard science on how the design, construction, and operation of buildings contributes to global warming, and translates it into information on sustainable building and products that people and communities can use. Full story

 

Related articles:

• "New carbon-neutral design course offered" (third story) by Michael Fraase, Emerging, Spring 2010
• University Solar Decathlon Web site
• "Fisher GeoDesign keynote featured on ESRI's ArcWatch" by Michael Fraase, CDes MEMO, February 24, 2010
• "Water as global resource" by Eric Pringle, Emerging, Fall 2009
• "Transforming the built environment" by Camille LeFevre, Emerging, Fall 2009
• "Greenlight and theater company trade skills" Emerging, Spring 2009
• "What if... preservationists paid as much attention to what goes on inside buildings as to what happens on the exterior?" by Laura Weber, Emerging, Fall 2008.
• "Conservation and preservation" by Camille LeFevre, Emerging, Fall 2008
• "Solar Decathlon 2009: U of M to claim its place in the sun" by Judy Woodward, Emerging, Spring 2008
• "Marc Swackhamer: Bringing ecology, biology, and aesthetics into affordable housing" by Lori-Anne Williams, Emerging, Spring 2008
• "David Pitt: Planning land use as if nature and community mattered" by Judy Arginteanu, Emerging, Spring 2008
• "Greening and the College of Design" by Judy Arginteanu, Emerging, Fall 2007
• "Where Design and Sustainability Intersect" by Jane King Hession, Emerging, Spring 2007

Associated faculty

Apparel Design Missy Bye Architecture Blaine Brownell Mary Guzowski Ignacio San Martin Steve Weeks Interior Design Denise Guerin Caren Martin

Landscape Architecture John Koepke Laura Musacchio Lance Neckar David Pitt Robert Sykes Associated research and outreach units Center for Changing Landscapes Center for Sustainable Building Research Center for Rural Design Institute on the Environment - River Life Metropolitan Design Center

 

 

 

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