Hello SD Leaders!
I recently joined and looking forward to all the amazing dialog. I was told that for membership to be official, I must reveal my unsustainable secret. As much as I preach environmental protection in architecture, I’m a bit of a motorhead with a 1967 HP 289 Mustang that I resurrected from a junk yard when I was 16 — that was many decades ago by the way. In all fairness, HP stand for High performance… but of a different kind.
Now 53-years old — the car, not me — it still has the same drive train and aside from the normal wear and tear (tires, brakes, etc) runs like a charm. Based on Autoguide, the average person keeps a car 5.5 years thus one could say that I have avoided 3.6 new cars while I was using it as a daily driver.
However, the car does consume more gas and after a bit of math the time I drove the car as a daily driver resulted in 3.2 new cars based on excess consumption. Thus, one could say that while a daily driver it was environmentally better than buying new cars and I promoted automotive recycling strategies and automotive carbon sequestration. Okay, maybe it's a bit of a stretch but I’m not getting rid of it.
Nicknamed Dr. Carbon by my students, I lecture at Cal Poly Pomona and the Lyle Center for Regenerative Design and formerly a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon. My doctoral studies concluded that the sun is hot but obviously there is more to it than that. I concurrently work at HMC Architects and I look forward to creative dialog.
Did I pass?
