Autodesk Sustainability Workshop

Autodesk Sustainability Workshop

An online toolkit teaching young engineers + architects how to apply sustainability to real-world problems.

Reorbit

Reorbit

A social media theater experiment, re-animating literary and historical characters. Writing over Twitter, our first cast included one dead rock star, a tragic literary figure, a grand eccentric and a Russian cat.

Beeline

Beeline

Beeline is a logistics platform + virtual marketplace concept for optimized food distribution. We set out to cut wasted transport energy and costs while better supporting local farmers.

Worldchanging

Worldchanging

Essays + reviews for this bestselling collaborative book, a compendium on leading solutions to planetary challenges. I wrote about design, sustainable products and systems, design for development, materials innovations, RFIDs, green computers, art and tech, product-service systems, public artwork and more.

Green Corridor Nature Bridge

Green Corridor Nature Bridge

Co-designed a tree-covered pedestrian bridge on the Canada-USA border. The bridge connects two parts of a community separated by a wall of trucks that await crossing into the states. Construction completed 2005.

CMPBS projects

CMPBS projects

High summer, 1999. Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. Moved to a silver trailer in Texas to help develop + build Greenforms, a flexible architectural prototype developed for the United States Department of Energy's Hickory Consortium. Returned for a year to do ecological design research, graphics and web development.