Some links in honor of tonight’s last night’s (I’m a flake sometimes!) GreenDrinks gathering:
Brilliant use of design problem solving!
The German nursing home, Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf installed an exact replica bus stop outside the facility. Buses never actually stop there, but Alzheimer’s have a good long term memory and know that the bus stop means they can get home (and they think they can escape), until the staff…
“approaches them and says that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee,” said Mr Neureither. “Five minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave.”
via BoingBoing
In reference to one of my earlier posts:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/suvs-without-wheels.php
Welcome to the end.
My boyfriend and I drove down to Leesburg, VA back in December and again in February to visit his brother, who just bought a brand new house. This was on the way there. Doesn’t make you want to drive much father does it?
I’ll certainly admit the house was gorgeous inside with tons of space; the thing that urks me is the community that it’s in and all the communities that surround it. Houses are built on old farm land, that’s no longer used. But it seems that now, contractors are just farming houses, not crops.
On the side of the road we constantly pass by signs like this to get visitors in, to see the model homes and neighborhoods.
If there’s really a need for such housing, why not initiate greener buildings? There are so many houses and it doesn’t seem to be slowing. It would be a great opportunity to convert home owners to live in a greener abode…
