How did this happen? It’s Saturday afternoon, and I’m sitting in the back of the nail salon at Burwood Brickworks – the shopping mall that opened a day before. Georgia and Kianna are two girls getting their nails done. Kianna calls over to me. “Excuse me,” she shouts. “What are you doing?” I explain to these two strangers that I…
Retail’s Overdue Makeover
“Imagine a building designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as a flower: a building informed by its bioregion’s characteristics, that generates all of its own energy with renewable resources, captures and treats all of its water, is toxic free and beautiful.” From the Living Building Challenge Standard In March of this year, the Living Future Institute of…