ALWAYS ON
Bucolia 100
(OED adj. pl.) "pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd." Today at 15:00 UTC we sort standards catalogs in building and maintaining the open estate -- i.e. "campus outdoor experience" ahead of Homecoming when parents, alumni and philanthropists return to campus.
World Soil Museum
This collection showcases 1000 soil profiles from more than 85 countries. It features "soil monoliths" -- large, vertical sections of soil that have been carefully extracted from the ground and preserved for display. These monoliths provide a unique opportunity for visitors to see the complex layers and structures of soils from around the world, including everything from volcanic soils in Iceland to desert soils in Africa.
Green Thoughts
“Annihilating all that's made. To a green thought in a green shade.” - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
7th Edition (2018): Geometric Design of Highways & Streets
The last reorganization of the Green Book that we can track emphasizes transportation of people, rather than focusing primarily on moving vehicles. A new chapter discusses multimodal level of service and puts greater emphasis on lower-speed, walkable, urban zones in which new mobility technologies are emerging such as micro-scooters.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Frederick Law Olmsted…
...Considered the godfather of American landscape architecture and one of the country’s first environmentalists. He was an avid traveler, farmer, and journalist before submitting his winning design for Manhattan’s Central Park in 1858. Many of his naturalistic, English-style, 18th-century landscapes still thrive today throughout the U.S.