It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
— Hugh Laurie
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I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, “Ohhhh.” And the lightbulb goes on.
— Henry Rollins (via thatkindofwoman)
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[Lance] Hosey points to a brewery that was retrofitted into a commercial and community space … . “There is a resistance in the industry of thinking of historic preservation and sustainability as the same thing,” says Hosey. “The most sustainable thing you can do is not build, but we’re accustomed to thinking that energy efficiency lives in a technical manual.”
Pictured: Pearl Brewery/Full Goods Warehouse San Antonio, Texas
The Pearl Brewery opened in 1881 and capped its last bottle in 2001, but the 67,000 square foot, LEED Gold structure has been retrofitted to provide professional offices and meeting spaces for the residents of San Antonio. Open air breezeways passively cool the space while ceiling fans and a customized heating system allow each room to be cooled independently. A building that used to be famous for producing liquids is now known for reusing them. Rainwater captured from the roof combined with grey water from the building and is used to water the plants on site.
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