by John W. Olson | Sep 14, 2010 | Sustainability
At the REpowering Southern Colorado Expo at Colorado State University Pueblo on August 14, I represented the Congress for the New Urbanism Colorado Chapter (CNU-Colorado). We had a beautiful day in the quad of the Colorado State University Pueblo campus with lots of...
by John W. Olson | Sep 8, 2010 | Urbanism
In late June, CNU Colorado, USGBC SoCo, Bike Colorado Springs, AIA Colorado and APA Colorado co-hosted a sustainability bike tour in Colorado Springs. Recently, the staff at the city of Colorado Springs updated their website to include photos from the tour as well as...
by John W. Olson | Jun 30, 2010 | Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The following are pictures from last weekend’s Colorado Springs Sustainability Bicycle Tour organized in a joint effort by AIA Colorado South, APA Colorado, CNU Colorado, USGBC Colorado SoCo and Colorado Springs Bike Month: Link to Bicycle Tour Information CNU...
by John W. Olson | Jun 19, 2010 | Urban Planning and Design
This past week, I was visiting the City of Denver for a conference titled NDIA E2S2. The acronym is fitting because the entire conference was full of acronyms (the conference was put on by NDIA, or National Defense Industrial Association, and it was titled...
by John W. Olson | May 28, 2010 | Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
As our culture, and more specifically, the development and design industries follow our movement into greater sustainability and “green” practices, more thought is necessary. My observation of design is that many architects, engineers, landscape...
