After more than a decade of tightening guidelines, Europe has made green architecture an everyday reality. In Germany and the Netherlands especially, a new generation of architects has expanded the definition of sustainable design beyond solar panels and sod roofs....
Posted on May 21, 2007 12:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Although largely forgotten Rudolph Stiener's New age meanderings have influenced ecologists, artists and farmers. He's the philosophical equivalent of your eccentric California cousins communing with dolphins that offer advice on education and economics. (Chronicle Review)...
Posted on May 15, 2007 10:59 AM • 0 Comments •
A decade after the dot -com revolution traditional print types are still questioning the legitmacy of online media. More more than at any time in the last 40 years, there is a bounty of news, features, criticism and gossip about...
Posted on May 14, 2007 11:28 AM • 0 Comments •
Drug fueled and paranoid Philip K. Dick has been a cult favorite among sci-fans and film goers for his ability to fuse dystopian future societies with subversive social commentary. Produced much of his best work under a meth psychosis fearing...
Posted on May 13, 2007 12:32 PM • 0 Comments •
The city is probably better known for its catalog of stunning postcards than for its inventory of priceless works. So what's Maurizio Seracini ,the world's greatest art forensics scientist doing here? Hoping to make San Diego an international center for...
Posted on March 1, 2007 11:35 AM • 0 Comments •
Animals were the first things that human beings drew. Not plants. Not landscapes. Not even themselves. But animals. Why? The earliest known drawings are some 30,000 years old. They survive in the depths of caves in western Europe. The fact...
Posted on February 27, 2007 01:20 PM • 1 Comments •
Souls, as Douglas R.Hofstadter puts it, come in "different sizes." In his new book I Am A Strange Loop, he even suggests that soulness might be measured--in units called "hunekers," after an American music critic, James Huneker, who once wrote...
Posted on February 22, 2007 04:24 PM • 3 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
