Tag: Sustainability

  • Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design

    Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design

    These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…

  • Green Power!

    Charles Buchwald and Friends is consulting on software development, corporate identity programme, and a marketing campaign for a new “green power” initiative in Veracruz, Mexico and Mexico City, DF. This exciting new initiative is anticipated to debut this fall. Watch here for more, as the project progresses.

  • Living Carbon Innovates with Charles Buchwald & Friends

    We’re proud to announce the debut of another new site developed with assistance from CB&F. Living Carbon is a 100% non-profit owned carbon offset development company, specializing in conservation offsets—the ’100 mile offset.’ Living Carbon’s Briony Penn worked with lead developer and designer Charles Buchwald and others to create the design and site architecture. With…

  • Greenway Partners

    Sometimes Facebook can actually be useful and productive. A case in point: I recently reconnected with a friend from Northfield High School. David Narum is a partner with Greenway Partners in Arcata, California, promoting and using regenerative design to go “beyond sustainability”. It’s great to find like-minded people working to reconnect people and the planet.

  • ChildHonouring.org Goes Live!

    Our latest, greatest project went live recently! ChildHonouring.org is up and ready for you. Please visit and check out all the wonderful information on Raffi’s transformative philosophy, including free book downloads, free songs, and lots more. CB&F has been thrilled to be a part of this effort, even so far as to donate 10 percent of…

  • Climate Action Day

    Saturday, 24 October 2009, is the Global Day of Action for Climate Change. If you haven’t heard about it yet, please visit 350.org for just a few minutes, and read about the thousands of events around the world organized to bring attention to the threat of climate change, and to ask our leaders to carry…

  • New Work: Centre for Child Honouring

    CB&F is proud and excited to announce that after a lengthy selection process, we have been selected to develop the web site for the new Centre for Child Honouring. The Spirit of ONE Campaign is a fundraising effort to establish the Centre here on Salt Spring Island, and the web site is one of the…

  • Deep Ecology Workshop

    Charles Buchwald & Friends staff will be attending a new workshop on Salt Spring Island this weekend. Here are the details: The Work That Reconnects: Discovering Our Ecological Self Sunday, July 19th “our pain is a measure of our love for our world” The Work that Reconnects helps us to connect with our deepest emotions…

  • 130% Wind Powered Servers

    The computers that run all of our hosting here at Charles Buchwald & Friends can use a lot of energy. Despite the fact that the hardware we use is Energy Star compliant, it’s still a lot of heat and energy required to keep them running around the clock, every day. Now our servers are 130…