Blog Archives

May 2011

• Voyage of the Rhubarb

January 2011

• Off the grid in Haiti... for real

December 2010

• Urban Habitat... Port-au-Prince?

September 2010

• Reflections on Park(ing) Day 2010

August 2010

• Mobile Food Collective

July 2010

• There once was a moth...

June 2010

• The fish and the plants and Santa Claus and breweries!!

May 2010

• UHC's Joy Garden Chosen to Participate in SITES 2-year Pilot Program

• UHC Participated in Foresight Design Initiative's Programming Roundtable

January 2010

• The Wonderful World of Malcolm Wells

November 2009

• Pedal-To-Table: Bridging the gap between Local Food/ Local Transportation

September 2009

• Living Structures

March 2009

• Converge:Exchange

• A Short, Informal Essay About Deconstruction Ethic Before Deconstruction Was Invented

January 2009

• Upon Viewing McCormick Place and a Visit to the Mid-Am Trade Show

December 2008

• Bioretention Basins and the Urban Forest

November 2008

• Birth of The Rebuilding Exchange

October 2008

• Buried in the Bailout: The Bicycle Commuter Act

June 2008

• Lifecycle Building Challenge 2

April 2008

• Why Cloth Diapers?

March 2008

• Introducing Lisa Joy Rosing

January 2008

• Building-integrated food production FAQ

• Household Chemicals and Electronics Recycling Center

December 2007

• Reusing building materials and appliances

August 2007

• The 11th Hour

June 2007

• Conservation International Meets Urban Habitat Chicago

• Cicadas!

• UHC dinner garden

May 2007

• Getting started on a rooftop agriculture project

April 2007

• Water filter simple and affordable

• Cafe UHC, part 2

February 2007

• The God Squad

• Cafe UHC and food for thought

• Vegetated wallbag v.1

January 2007

• Trees, toilets, and inspiration

• Radishes, domes, and eco-cities

• Household Chemical and Computer Recycling Center

September 2006

• Grow, green roof, grow!

August 2006

• Deconstruction

May 2006

• Pioneering Engineers

April 2006

• Home Grown: Harvesting Potatoes

• Chicago 2175

• Chicago 2006 Environmental Action Agenda

March 2006

• Save the Earth Slowly, Tip #1: Tupperware

February 2006

• Bioregionalism

• Plan B 2.0

• Slice of life

• "Follow That Draft"

• BioBags

• Patriot act

January 2006

• Do green roofs matter?

• Materials experiments

• Snow Scene

• Are we running out of metals?

• FUNgi

• designing the future

October 2005

• City and State Announce Start of Construction on Recycling Center

• Winterizing!

September 2005

• Cob oven complete

August 2005

• Cob oven and papercrete

• Gift House bench complete

July 2005

• Nice things to sit on

• Papercrete

June 2005

• Index: Awards

April 2005

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• Smart House

• Drainage system

• Kirei board

March 2005

• Polyurethane fiber composite

• Ply-ing new trades

February 2005

• Carbon trading

January 2005

• Textiles and plastics