Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/19/2008 8:43:58 AM PST by NormsRevenge
The impacts of climate change are a hot topic among scientists and environmental activists. Now the Bay Conservation and Development Commission wants to hear from another perspective: the design community.
The state agency is preparing to launch a $125,000 competition that will invite architects, planners and engineers to bring innovative proposals "to climate-proof the Bay Area," in the words of the competition outline.
The aim isn't to stop climate change from happening, say officials, or to build impregnable levees. The goal is to get designers thinking creatively about how to prepare for a world where the sea level might climb several feet - inundating large portions of the developed region unless something is done.
"We are looking for ideas that can lead to future standards about how to deal with rising tides," said Brad McCrea, a development design analyst for the commission. "We want to move the discussion forward."
The commission Thursday approved a $25,000 contract with David Meckel to manage the competition. This means selecting the design jury as well as framing the rules - such as deciding whether design teams will be asked to look at specific sites or respond to broader issues.
"There's an opportunity to suggest ideas that can be applied to our bay but have universal access," said Meckel, whose design competition work is a sideline to his role as director of research for the California College of the Arts. "If one of the results is a solution for protecting low-lying freeways, for example, other cities are welcome to steal it."
As now envisioned, $10,000 awards would go to each of the five entrants who present the most innovative schemes for adapting our urban region to natural changes. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
LOL! That’s the PERFECT solution!
I’d say just wait for the next great earthquake and they won’t have to worry about a design.
Jack London Square, at least when I was there, is the only place in Oakland that wasn’t a complete cesspool.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wear more light colored clothing.
...which rhymes with:
"they're liberal idiots by the way"
I’m partial to the 1947 plan to dam up the SF Bay and turn it into the largest manmade freshwater lake in the world. How would that help the “climate proofing”? Well, all that fresh water goes to making more green trees & bushes & stuff that turns CO2 into Oxygen. Water is running out in California, and the upcoming solutions to that problem will be squashed by environmentalists.
San Francisco has nothing to worry about. God will save it just for the amusement value.
(They did this in Santa Barbara, no kidding!!)
Good idea, I bet it’s nice and cool inside that Jeep even when the sun is beating down on you!
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