News: Thought Bursts
View of Giants Parade Outside Mithun SF Office Window
11.03.2010 Mithun, Thought Bursts
Mithun San Francisco is lucky enough to watch the San Francisco Giants parade from their Market Street office windows. The event was broadcast live to our Seattle teleconference room. Congratulations SF Giants!
Dream a Sound Future at Seattle Center
10.19.2010 Mithun, Thought Bursts
Dream a Sound Future took place on October 10 at Seattle Center – an event hosted by Sustainable Seattle allowing the community to share its visions for the future of Seattle.
The Mithun team created a conceptual game based on the idea of initiating dialogue around the choices we make with the assets we share – the street and the parks, which make up 40% of the City. “What Would You Do with 25,000 Acres?” was recognized with a Foresight Award and will be implemented by Sustainable Seattle to introduce community members to open dialogue and looking at our resources in an innovative way.
Video: Center for Urban Agriculture Remix
11.19.2009 Mithun, Thought Bursts
Last week in the Greenbuild 2009 panel Urban Food Systems: From Vertical Agriculture to District-level Food Strategies, Mithun systems ecologist Critter Thompson and his co-panelists discussed urban food systems and the role food production, distribution, consumption and recycling plays in helping to shape sustainable urban communities. He also spoke about the Center For Urban Agriculture – a conceptual high-rise net-zero vertical farm Mithun designed for the Cascadia Green Building Council’s 2007 Living Building Challenge.
A few conference goers were hoping for more information on CUA so the Mithun video team provided an update that includes more discussion of community impact and urban food production (above).
Report From the City of Big Shoulders
09.21.2009 Mithun, Thought Bursts
It's sunny and warm here in Chicago. Lake Michigan is crystal blue...they have palm trees on their beaches (I kid you not). The only clue that it is not the Caribbean is that the palms are boxed.
Today at the 2009 ASLA Annual Meeting, I presented the Sustainable Sites Initiative with folks from the Wildflower Center and the USGBC to a packed house of over 300 people. The latest draft is being edited for release on November 5th in time for Greenbuild.
The Estuarine City
07.20.2009 Mithun, Awards, In The News, Thought Bursts
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) recently hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. Mithun's entry, The Estuarine City, received an honorable mention along with 6 others of 130 competition entries from 18 countries. Mithun (architecture, planning, ecology) collaborated with experts from Bionic (landscape and planning), Regenesis (regenerative planning) and NSI (wetland planning) to find a solution to the 100-year 55 inch rise in the San Francisco bay tide.Bike to Work Day, Week, Month!
05.15.2009 Mithun, Thought Bursts
May is National Bike to Work Month, Monday May 12th heralded Bike to Work Week and today we've arrived at the epicenter of work-related cycling frenzy. It's Bike to Work Day!
REI released a new iPhone application for tracking your ride and Mithunees share what they love most about commuting...
The Next Sustainable Design Agenda
01.22.2009 Mithun, Thought Bursts
With the optimistic agenda of our new president promising hope and change, it is an appropriate time to reflect on what we might call the “next sustainable design agenda”…