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What’s more sustainable than building new? Rebuilding what we have. Great old buildings are in need of love, and probably lots of extra insulation. Lloyd Alter of Treehugger posits a rethinking of the American economy.

In 2006, Photographer Julius Shulman revisited Pierre Konig’s “Case Study House #21″ in Los Angeles.
Via: Wright20 Auctions

The abandoned village at Portsmouth Island lies off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This area is near the fabled haunts of pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard.
[Image: Michael J. Henderson, 2006]

It’s sometimes easy to forget humanity’s first mode of transportation - the lowly foot. When it comes to shodding these humble appendages, it’s hard to do much better than with hand-crafted shoes. Unfortunately, the skilled cobbler is a rare and dying breed. This is true even in Florence, of Italy’s most renowned centers for shoemaking. […]

Thanksgiving isn’t even here yet, but everyone else is already in the Christmas spirit so we figured ‘Why not?’ And yep, those letters are really rooftops. Of real buildings. See for yourself. Unfortunately, they’re not yet covered in acres of solar panels. Or vegetated roofs with pretty flowers and tasty vegetables.

Mucho apologies for the site being so slow lately, but more on that later. Nevertheless, folks like k. cooper over at hoping for happy accidents help to keep this fledgling enterprise on it toes. Her blog has long been (in internet time, at least) a source of inspiration, and I’m pretty sure I visit almost […]

The Christian Home School

wood, brick, glass, iron, steel
1932
Isle of Wight County, Virginia
It’s high time we’ve added more diverse topics because, you know, there’s a lot of cool stuff in the world. First stop…this post. The plan is to highlight some of the architecture, historic sites, interesting people, and general miscellany encountered on our trips. A […]