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This page provides a number of useful resources. Many have been used in posts, others are fascinating, but they haven’t been incorporated yet. Enjoy and support all their great work! What is your neighborhoods walking score. Will rising sea levels. Affect where you live? Are you in a nuclear fallout. Have you drawn out your pub shed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Place your Footer Content here. BizzCard Theme by ThemeZee. Hello I’m Aaron. And I love city life!
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April | 2014 | Patchopolis
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Archive for April 2014. The Good, The Bad, The 10,000 lb Gorilla in the Room: The 2014 Sustainability Message. April 9, 2014. During the last week of March I attended the annual Milwaukee Sustainability Summit. Here is what I found:. The Good: Whatever you do, do something! At any good conference there are sessions that leave you feeling empowered! Ones where you leave and want to tell everyone all about your experience and discussions. For me this came from a breakout session hosted by Sustain Dane.
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January | 2013 | Patchopolis
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Archive for January 2013. January 28, 2013. In the last post I reviewed the Home Gr/own Milwaukee proposal for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge and launched the plan for Patchopolis’ Patch 2; converting foreclosed properties into a chain of grow houses. While foreclosers decreased nationally 3% in 2012, there are still a number of properties in cities like Milwaukee available for redevelopment. Les Christie, CNN Money. Victory Garden posters from WWII. January 8, 2013. Launched early in 2012 to...
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May | 2012 | Patchopolis
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Archive for May 2012. May 29, 2012. Tore down paradise and put up a parking lot. One of Milwaukees many flat lots, nearly abandoned at 5:00. There are approximately 240 million passenger vehicles in the U.S. While that number is staggering to me, what I find most interesting is the infrastructure necessary to make that number possible( University of California Transportation Center. Para 7). This comes out to an estimate of as many as 8 total parking spaces per vehicle in the U.S. Increases in urban temp...
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February | 2015 | Patchopolis
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Archive for February 2015. Home as an Extension of the Individual. February 19, 2015. Envisions a future where home is more than a state of mind, it is an extension of you. Communities transition as individuals reorganize and moving becomes an easy, comfortable process rather than a time and financial burden to the individual. Cubes individualized with what owner finds comforting. An individual’s sanctuary. Place your Footer Content here. BizzCard Theme by ThemeZee. On Where we work.
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March | 2013 | Patchopolis
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Archive for March 2013. March 11, 2013. Since my last post I have been working on building my own DIY WindowFarm. I started with the four column design from WindowFarms. And besides using comments from their opensource blog to make small design changes, I added a composting component to convert food and other compostable waste to soil to be used for a seed starting component. Within the containers is food waste, torn up newspaper, and a couple thousand red worms. Using old soda bottles I have cut holes f...
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July | 2012 | Patchopolis
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Archive for July 2012. Designing the mobile worksite. July 11, 2012. To start I mapped out a comparison of hours between a traditional workday and the peak operating times of a coffee shop and bar atmosphere. Comparing the traditional workday (grey), with popular coffeehouse (purple) and bar happy-hour times (orange). Working from this mobile worksite has its advantages to productivity. 8220;Moderate noise slightly disrupts your brain’s ability to process information. And that disruption causes your ...
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September | 2012 | Patchopolis
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Archive for September 2012. September 21, 2012. Tore down paradise and put up a parking lot. Park(ing) day began in 2005 with a single installation in San Francisco by the art a design studio Rebar. To call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat ( ParkingDay.org. The original Park(ing) Day installation by Rebar. Check out this map. Have a happy Park(ing) Day! This faca...
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October | 2014 | Patchopolis
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Archive for October 2014. October 13, 2014. The development of wearable technology is all the rage. Google glasses and mobile companies racing watches to market to pair with smart phones is just the tip of the iceberg. This last week Fast Company. Focused on wearable technology and while most of the articles combined to give an overview of the current market, the one that captured my attention was “4 Wearables That Give You Superpowers” ( Mark Wilson, Fast Company. While wearable technology may initially...
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October | 2013 | Patchopolis
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Archive for October 2013. Utopian Drive and a Desire to Survive. October 24, 2013. Patchopolis’s goal is to explore how changes to the urban environment become more resource efficient while supporting the social and economic performance of our communities, striving to improve the current condition while developing resilient cities for the future. Recently reading Annalee Newitz’s latest book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember. And Orson Scot Card’s Ender’s Game. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember. In the next couple...
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