Sustainable Standards: Pervious Cover Minimums and Incentives
Source: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/pervious-cover-minimums-and-incentives-2/ Kerrigan Owens (author), Jonathan Rosenbloom & Christopher Duerksen (editors) INTRODUCTION This regulation provides local governments with the flexibility to either create incentives, set requirements, or do a combination…
Cal-Earth Makes Disaster-Resistant Superadobe Construction a Reality
By Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe* Source: https://www.theearthandi.org/post/cal-earth-makes-disaster-resistant-superadobe-construction-a-reality Building safe and sustainable housing is a challenge, especially in disaster-prone regions, and ensuring that it is affordable and accessible can seem impossible. At last,…
Floating bamboo houses keep this indigenous tribe safe in a typhoon
3 June 2024, By Jeremy Riggall Source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240531-the-floating-houses-built-to-withstand-typhoons-and-flooding-in-the-philippines The Manobo indigenous community in the Agusan Marshlands of the Philippines live in floating homes able to withstand floods, rising water levels and…