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Bird Friendly Glass at The Garden Room of the National Aviary
for Walker Glass
In October 2020 the National Aviary in Pittsburgh unveiled its new bird friendly Garden Room, with glass walls on three sides overlooking the historic Allegheny Commons. The new venue provides a space for public programming, meetings and community events. It also serves as a site to educate visitors about ecological concerns relating to the Aviary’s mission, including bird conservation.
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Five things you need to know about Health Product Declarations®
for Walker Glass
Health Product Declarations® are an integral part of a green building strategy, but they may seem daunting at first. Josée Lupien, founder of Vertima Green Building and Materials Experts, guides readers through the most important aspects of these valuable declarations. If you’re a glass manufacturer, contractor, architect or building owner, you’ll want to read Josée’s advice on how to get the most benefit from your HPD® documentation.
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Fight Instinct
In conversations with creative friends lately, we keep coming back to the notion of our fight instinct. We’re seduced by it as a motivating force which causes us to throw our energies into work, social interaction or creativity, as if creativity could be driven by some threat to our egos. We feel it, we obey its imperative, but I believe we are wrong. Musings on the power of the fight impulse and possible escapes from it.
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In Praise of Sh*tty First Drafts
Overcoming creative paralysis, with a geriatric cat for company.
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The Mountain
I’ve been thinking about the relationship between time and creativity on the micro scale, the intense focus that goes into a single brush stroke, and the macro scale: what is one’s creative practice, as an overarching theme?
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On the Blog
- Equinoctial WoodThe wood tonight is on fire with changing leaves, deep red and yellow. Changeable light, the sun sinking, the sky full of red on those yellow leaves and flaring up. Light, coming up from the ground through the trees fills all the forest with its flame.
- Fight InstinctWhat is this fight instinct? Is it the instinct to be gregarious, outgoing, and challenging? Is it the grim determination to push through, make perfect what is imperfect, not to let yourself off the hook?
- Monstrous Ideas MenagerieI have this vision of metaphysical ideas as subtle, slippery monsters that emerge from the darkness and wriggle away. Sometimes you catch them and you bring them back to your menagerie of ideas, where they form their own society and make surprising monstrous idea babies.
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