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fairfieldthinkspace · 11 months ago

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The Lived in Interior — Living a sustainable lifestyle

Hollie Sutherland, NCIDQ, LEED AP, MFA Interior Design

Assistant Professor, Interior Design

Interior Designer, Hollis Interiors

What is it sustainability and why should you care? Let me offer my perspective as a residential interior designer with experience both practicing and teaching the profession of interior design with a focus on sustainability.

Sustainability is good for your health. It touches your life and contributes to your health and wellbeing—the air you breathe, how you live in your home, and the materials you use, reuse or discard. These ideas evolved the definition of a sustainable building beyond energy and water efficiency. There is a richness and progression of the definition of sustainability that brings us to the idea of a sustainable lifestyle.

Here is a quick guide to the evolution of sustainability:

Late 19th century: Preserve natural habitats. Activist, preservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club 1892, John Muir understood humans place in the natural world, and that we are a part of nature, not above it.

Mid-20th century: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a sustainable building approach, focused on preserving natural resources and building smarter.

Early 21st century: William McDonough, author of Cradle to Cradle, refers to nature, a perfect system. It teaches us how to design products emulating the life cycle of nature and eliminating waste.

Mid-21st century: Two new sustainable building systems evolve, adding a humanistic perspective to sustainable design.

Three rating systems provide a blueprint for a sustainable building. In addition to LEED, there is the Well Building Standard and Living Building Challenge. New concepts such as attention to nutrition, growing your own food, exercise, access to nature and daylight, awareness of mental health issues and living in a sustainably built home, are all addressed in a sustainable lifestyle. These ideas influence designed spaces. A fundamental question is “How do you want to live in your home, and what does that look like and feel like to improve your health and wellbeing?”

In my view, sustainability is a lifestyle. Views to nature, a home gym or yoga space, access to daylight, a bed mattress made without chemicals, eliminating VOC materials (without harmful chemical content), repurposing materials such as antiques, eating healthy food or using materials that are certified sustainable—even your cleaning products—are all strategies applied to creating a sustainable home or building. A step beyond the original purpose of the LEED sustainable building approach—using the principles of the sustainable rating systems, the way you design and experience your home, can improve your comfort and contribute to your health.

To learn more about sustainability, consider reading about the Living Building Challenge and Well Building Standard, the two new sustainable building resources with a humanistic perspective. Additionally, Biophilic Design is a discipline that teaches how to bring nature into our homes in physical and interpretive ways.

To get started, do a complete critical analysis of your home and list everything that does not support your health, and in fact causes stress.

Recommended reading: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, (2002) by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Also, Nature Inside: A Biophilic Design Guide (Browning & Ryan, 2020), and 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design, Improving Health and Well-Being in the Built Environment. Annette Stelmack’s Sustainable Residential Interiors is also a one stop book for a sustainable education. Wherever you start, it is worth your time to establish a sustainable lifestyle, and create a home that not only supports your health, but also the environment.

#Hollie Sutherland #LEED #Well Building Standard #Living Building Challenge #interior design #sustainable

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toskarin · 4 months ago

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miss Toskarin you’re not convincing me that Skyrim was the ruin of all western rpgs. In fact you’re convincing me that the issues began with oblivion.

I'd better be careful or else I might convince you of my less loudly-held beliefs

#I liked oblivion well enough but it's got a lot of Very Serious problems that were never solved and instead festered forward into genre norm #although technically if you want to get more specific here #the problems that I complain most often about now actually started under the surface of morrowind's development #and intensified with the reception to tribunal #and then caught on fire with the lessons learned from bloodmoon (which is proto-oblivion in a lot of ways)#as with so many things the damage was more in the wrong lessons being learned from games with scrappy development cycles #and how those became incredibly toxic when applied as the standard for development rather than a freak accident of planning #consider how oblivion passively fucking up your character was a solution to people trying to play off-build in morrowind #and how skyrim being incredibly easy was a solution to oblivion's level-rotting #and how both of these solutions are solving a symptom by removing friction without replacing it #which is further incentivised because the game now has fewer features that would turn off someone who would otherwise not play an rpg

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some-witterings · 7 months ago

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[Post New War Warframe Spoilers Ahead]

I just need to gush about Qorvex a little...

Because god damn, DE did an absolutely fantastic job with him.

His cycopean and brutalist aesthetic make him feel less "alive" than other frames. He just feels unnatural. While most other frames look powerfull, heroic and storied; Qorvex is just imposing. He has no obvious location where a face would be, just a single glowing red eye. He might have a standard human form, but it is buried beneath his concrete plating that is so functional looking it strips him of any obvious signs of humanity.

His sound design is amazing too. There is no bluster or massive sounds in his first three abilities, just grinding and slamming concrete followed by the degranged clicking of a gieger counter. Hidden beneath all of that noise is a low gutteral roar. Something inhuman, strange and angry. That all changes when you reach his fourth ability though. The crucible blast feels exactly as it should, like the beam itself is ripping apart the air and poisoning the world. All whilst Qorvex bellows in his deep alagory for a voice.

It even permeates into his gameplay. He is filling the battlefield is radiation which causes the enemies to turn on each other. Slamming them together and crushing their armor. Not flinching when hit. Then causing the enemies to erupt in nuclear fire from within themselves. His gameplay feels like it lives up to the tool of extiction that Albrecht made him to be. Both the immovable object and unstoppable force.

I appreciate my thoughts on him my be tainted by just how much I enjoy playing him and my love of nuclear stuff to begin with, but he feels so much more like a form of nature than anything else. He radiates this aura of something that will kill and will not care. A tool, not a person. Which absolutely suits the radiation he is the representative of. It will not care and it his hard to stop. Qorvex is the uncaring nuclear fire at the heart of every fission reactor and he plays the part perfectly.

Well done DE. Hell of a frame you made.

#warframe #warframe qorvex #I have my own headcanons about him as well #LIke why in the orokin era they needed a stupid fission reactor murder bot when they have void shenanigans #well if albrecht knew about the Man in the Wall and his influence on the void a standard frame might be corruptable #hence you build a fission reactor with an anger problem that cannot be corrupted and tell it to go murder #New War Spoilers

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sha-brytols · 22 days ago

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i think my favorite rivalry route is merrills for how like. assertive she is with hawke. like she doesn't just sit there and take the condescending "i know more than you" bit she actually stands up for herself and you actually get to see more of WHY she's so adamant about fixing the eluvian because when you're trying to talk her out of it she'll actually open up more about why she wants to like i can't stress enough i fucking adore rivalry paths

#i also like them for how they arent just standard ''this character hates you now'' like theres still love and loyalty there #like ''rival'' as a word works super well because what you're doing is actually building each other up and playing off of each other—#through your flaws and disagreements #you dont miss out on the character development or the relationship or anything its just a New path there #ughhh

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femininedating · 2 months ago

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You deserve a man who is already built and established. Not struggle love and a man who wants you to suffer with him while he 'builds'

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tweedfrog · 7 months ago

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I remember when a bunch of terfs on here ganged up on me when i said I'd feel way more solidarity for a trans woman than a white girl terf because im far more likely to be branded "a man" for not fitting into white european standards of femininity and they jumped me and now we see 4 yrs later these morons running a disinformation campaign because a cis female Olympic boxer *checks notes* is brown and has a squareish jaw and muscles

#the gag is if i actually put the effort in i can meet european beauty standards pretty well #its just fkn exhausting to have to live like that #anyways if i didnt want to get punched in the face i simply wouldnt enter the face punching competition #but ig im just build different (has a brain)

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watermelonsverything · 5 months ago

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Dudes i literally almost cried during Tansfomers One go watch it

#alll my love of the transformers franchise overhwelmed me #they did AMAZING and i was NOT expecting to watch a moving film that did that story justice omfg #“NO I WANT TO KILL HIM!” instant chills i was in absulute awe of how well they did with his tranformeration over such a short film #this was the gold standard of how to make a popular origin story into a movie #and im not even gonna day shit about the visuals. it was an extraordinary stunning film and the world building was immaculate #AND THE SOUND DESIGN #i am very very happy with this movie

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itsanotheridiot · 3 months ago

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I love Arcane I definitely think it’s going to stay in the conversation for a long time and would not be surprised if it wins all the animation awards and is studied in the future

But I do it’s unfortunate that due to the episodes getting cut down it resulted in a pacing issue and it’s becomes very obvious they had to throw out some of their political messages in favor of finishing the characters story arcs but the issue is almost all the characters and their arcs and directly connected to the politics in the show which do reflect a lot of real life especially considering recent events like a certain elections it’s very unfortunate.

While I think the arcane team did well with what they gave us and what circumstances they had to work with it’s just sucks I don’t think arcane needed a season 3 with how the story was going I don’t know if there would have been enough story for their to be one but I definitely think season 2 could have benefited from an extra 10 mins or more each episode

An example of what I mean is how quickly the whole mass incarcerating and brutalization of zaunties citizens was handled in the show like they breeze over that kinda quickly

#with that said I still think arcane is a masterpiece obviously perfect doesn’t exist because our standards change so does our views on media #that’s why the term ‘didn’t age well’ exist because as we continue to learn and grow we understand what was wrong about stuff #it’s just unfortunate because it would have been really powerful for a show as well written and critically acclaimed like arcane #to give a powerful message about classism and how systematic oppression harms everyone and causes war it’s unfortunate they couldn’t fully #complete it but I did enjoy what we got like how harsh they treated the war scene and all the deaths because that is war there is NO time to #greive you just have to move and continue to fight I think they did really well with stuff like that but it’s sad to see all these messages #building up to something but in the end feelings incomplete #arcane #arcane criticism

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whatudottu · 2 years ago

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Thinking about fucked up dead people clone human Predaking again- have a gaunt but muscular dragon!

#predaking #tfp predaking #transformers #tfp #humanformers #maccadam #fanart #i have been thinking on what exactly would be 'fucked up' and monstrous about a human predaking #enough to go with the 'beast' name calling without reading as... well-#so i thought maybe he has a mouth far too wide for his thin face and stick some teeth in poking out #plus the eyes which maybe also have a colour that's different and fucked up but i have a greyscale piece here so #i tried to make the perspective work but it looks like he's standing head on so oops lmao #i wanted to also make his physique a combination of muscular and gaunt (see words in post)#but i don't know if that was clear beyond the standard dehydration thing that happens when you actually see the abs #but- well- it's not as if i overly detailed them so he could be showing off a more healthy build #anyway i wanted a threatening low angle pose but the only good reference i could imagine was the 'know your place' image #so i just made it an entire predaking based redraw lmao #and cheekbones- human predaking has significant cheekbones because predacon predaking has significant cheekbones #these tag rambles are extra rambly (not even ordered)

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gentletrait · 8 months ago

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the feminine urge 2 delete ur whole mods folder and start anew

#hello <3 #been in the mood to start playing again i miss being creative ;w;#and i want to try getting out of the anti social hole i dug myself :))#the 100gb mod folder is absolutely overwhelming to me rn #and i let it get so so unorganized to my standards lmao #but do i feel like spending twenty years building it back up?????#aaaaaaaaaa #hope u have all been doing well <3

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tovaicas · 8 months ago

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anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

#saint.txt #long post #ishgardposting #I'm sorry this is so hard to see lmfao I told you people you would regret activating the unhinged part of my brain #anyways additional notes:#Duskwight is to Old Elezen what Icelandic is to Old Norse; It's the closest language to Old Elezen.#Old Ishgardian was probably heavily influenced by Dravanian but the church post-Ratatoskr probably tried to purge a lot of it.#Ysayle and the heretic faction probably use Dravanian-derived words on purpose and may have restored a lot of the old words as slang #and as shibboleths.#Liturgical Ishgardian as you'd expect is spoken in churches and by clergy. It's their version of liturgical Latin.#Proto-Ishgardian *probably* wasn't using Old Hyur as a prestige language so its influence was probably limited #(it probably wasn't like English with French)#Alliance Trade Standard is a prestige language in Ishgard for nobility but proficiency varies. Most Ishgardians prob. don't speak it well.#imo Ishgardian and Duskwight both use different alphabets derived from the Old Elezen ones #w/ BSE either adopting the ATS one or having two scripts (the new ATS and the old Elezen one). Probably dialect-dependent.#Duskwight derived theirs from Golmorran and Ishgard from Old/Liturgical Ishgardian bc that's what the Enchiridion is written in.#the friend I'm building this with posits that BSE uses a lot of obtuse speech (verlan basically) for cultural reasons re: elementals.#Ishgardian forms dialects like crazy bc of the geography but there's a lot more interplay and movement of speech around than #you'd think bc of the movement of soldiers from different High Houses and places around the Holy See constantly #High Houses each have their own specific slang and jargon and you can get surprisingly specific placing where in Coerthas someone is from #and what High House he works for based on his accent and what military slang he uses.#the Coerthas-Shroud pidgin/creole refers to the zone between North Shroud and Coerthas where the two languages intersect for trade reasons #and mix together.#BSE mixes with a LOT (padjali / duskwight / coerthan in the north / thanalan languages in the south /#moon mi'qote languages / hyur in general) depending on region and thus has a *really* broad array of variation.#City Ishgardian as a dialect is facing huge change atm bc of the massive influx of Coerthan refugees.#bc of the Calamity and the Horde a lot of local Coerthan dialects went extinct very quickly.

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horsemoment · 24 days ago

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I love your trash twin ponies! Are you planning to do the other members of the gang?

Thank you so much! And yes I'm hoping to draw all of them eventually! I have a request for Charlie in my asks right now so that's who I'm considering drawing next :D

I've been working on a couple other things so i haven't gotten around to it as quickly as I had hoped but it's been on my brain this whole time!

#I'm a little nervous to do more of them cuz i worry they wont turn out as well as the dee one cuz I'm esp proud of that one #but i still wanna try #im particularly nervous to do a frank one cuz i feel like he will be outside the more 'standard' pony builds thus will be harder to design #but i feel like if i accomplish a frank one id be extra extra proud of it #point is i wanna make more of them and I'm gonna do my best to but I'm kinda scared idk why!#iasip #ask

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himblebo · 1 year ago

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When you want to visit the Alhambra but mom’s like “we got the Alhambra at home”

#niche joke maybe?#unclear how many millennials and elder gen z are familiar with moorish decorative arts #but this is the theatre at New York City center #described in the show program as ‘1943 neo-moorish’#I think theatres need to start having themes again why did we stop doing that #I’m not saying we should randomly model them on landmarks of other cultures #because it’s so fucking weird #like the garde arts center in CT is vaguely Egyptian and it’s like??? that’s a choice #but new build theatres are just like neutral spaces #which I understand completely you don’t want to distract from the production happening onstage #but surely there’s some middle ground we could reach!#some kind of neo art deco revival could be lovely #especially as more and more art deco theatres are getting restored to their historic designs #I don’t know if theatres are this way in other countries but I’m assuming that the American trend at the turn of the century #was influenced by European theatrical tradition #I’ve seen color plates of concert halls and opera houses #so I’m pretty sure our heavily themed theatres built 1900-1950 are a translation of that #unfortunately I don’t really have a knowledge base for American theatres older than that because I haven’t really been to any #well wait that’s a lie I’ve been to ford’s theatre in DC #but I don’t think there was much that stood out stylistically to me I think it was just very bog standard federalist #which isn’t the period most people associate it with because of Lincoln #but I don’t know off the top of my head when it was built and that is likely a modern design choice anyway #this has been another episode of ‘I have approximate knowledge of many things’

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aviatrix-ash · 1 year ago

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Digging thru older photos rn and found this one me and my moms got the Ultra Pup home, but not before stopping at micky deez for chickey nuggies. :]

We had to modd her trailer to fit the plane and used every bit of rope and ratchet straps we could find to secure it and the surviving wing.

I'm trying to get better at welding so I can get this little guy flying again. Needs a lot of replacement tubing under the fabric skin due to some heavy rust. :']

#yah this was the 0 dollar free ultralight i mentioned before #well shes technically far too heavy to qualify for the current ultralight regulations #but thats no problem for me im rebuilding it to standards for homebuilt light sport plane #planeposting #ash builds stuff #ash fixes stuff

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moe-broey · 1 year ago

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Transferrable Skills

Tbh I'm not sure how any of this works (being a healer) and god knows Moe doesn't either 😌🙏✨

#feh #like??? half a hc i have is you need to have SOME sort of spirituality to actually use healing magic #and that spirtuality can come in many forms from your standard devotee to. whatever azama has going on.#and also like the three houses faith stat. something you can build.#but again i think you can get nonconventional about it. instead of faith in one god #it could be many or it could be something else entirely.#all of this is to say if you're not actually very spiritual (moe's case) healing magic is NOT gonna come easy for you #so i think moe heavily relies on practical medical skills as well. plus even for the healers #who have faith in some cases it may be necessary or better to use 'traditional' medical practices #i also often wonder about the limitations of healing magic...#anyways i think moe and forrest would be friends. sewing buddies healers the genders. 🤝#moe tag #summoner oc #fe forrest #fe alfonse #<- dude who had to be sewn up. someone had to.#my art

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cherry-coke-death-cider · 6 months ago

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My luck is mostly inconsistent,but it's consistently annoying

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